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Vocabulary
Character
Vocabulary 2.0
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Setting
100
comparison between two unlike things using like or as
What is a "simile"?
100
comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
What is a "Metaphor"?
100
Chambers wants to learn this language
What is Spanish?
100
where the story is set
What is Brooklyn?
200
with no missing parts
What is "intact"?
200
She traveled with this person
Who was her cousin?
200
alone, separated
What is "isolated"?
200
She tried to teach Chambers Spanish
Who is her mother?
200
the time the story was set
What is the 1970s?
300
making, forming
What is "forging"?
300
The author forged a bond with her by speaking Spanish
Who was her mother?
300
secured the services of
What is "enlisted"?
300
In this grade she gained the confidence to speak Spanish
What is the 9th grade?
300
Chamber's mother considers this her home country
What is "Panama"?
400
the author's attitude
What is "tone"?
400
the author's most vivid memory was of this
What is learning to Salsa dance?
400
giving human qualities to nonhuman objects
What is "personification"?
400
Chambers stayed with them in Panama
Who were her godparents?
400
Her friends thought she was from this country
What is Puerto Rico?
500
Latin word "tact"
What is "touch"?
500
Chambers decided she was both of these
What is "Black" and "Spanish"?
500
latin word "insula"
What is "island"?
500
She gave her mother this
What is photograph?
500
the two bodies of water mentioned in the story
What are Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean?