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Reading Habits
The House on Mango Street
Vocabulary
Writing Habits
Figurative Language
100
What is listing everything you can about a subject/item to help produce a final answer
Brainstorming
100
Who is the author of The House on Mango Street?
Sandra Cisneros
100
What is theme?
The main idea/message of the story
100
What is active voice?
When the subject performs the action
100
What is a simile?
Using "like" or "as" to make a comparison
200
What is breaking the text into different sections and summarizing each?
Chunking
200
What type of narration is used in this story?
First person
200
What is a memoir?
A collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events
200
What is an example of a conjunction?
But Or And For Yet Nor So
200
What is personification?
Giving non-human object human traits
300
What is predicting?
Making a guess about what will happen in a text
300
What does Esperanza's name mean in Spanish?
Hope
300
What is tone?
How the author presents his/her work
300
What is editing?
CUPS Capitalizing Understanding Punctuation Spelling
300
What is Onomatopoeia?
The word is formed for the sound (or as the sound)
400
What is skimming?
Quickly looking through a text to get the main idea and some supporting details
400
Who is Esperanza's first crush?
Sire
400
What is mood?
How the reader feels during the reading
400
What does TEES stand for?
Topic Sentence Evidence Expansion Summary Sentence
400
What is hyperbole?
Extreme exaggeration
500
What is the GIST of a piece?
GIST is getting the main idea (using 15 words to support it)
500
What is Esperanza's greatest desire?
To leave Mango Street
500
What is a stanza?
A group of lines within a poem
500
What is plot?
The sequence of events in a story
500
What is alliteration?
The repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word