Literary Elements
A recurring action/feeling/emotion in a story
What is motif?
Not permanent
What is temporary?
A word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to.
What is a name?
"Crumbles like a coat" is an example of what literary element?
What is a simile?
Who has died in the story "Papa Who Wakes Up Tired In The Dark"?
Who is Esperanza's grandfather?
How the reader learns about a character
Characterization
An owner of an apartment or apartment complex who collects money.
The place where one lives, especially as a member of a family or household.
What is a home?
"There, I said pointing up to the third floor. You live there? There, I said....the way she said it made me feel like nothing."
"I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees."
Are both examples of which literary element?
What is tone?
Why was Geraldo in "Geraldo No Last Name" considered a 'John Doe'?
Because he was an undocumented immigrant who was afraid of being discovered.
A comparison without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Another word for bathroom.
A group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.
What is a family?
"They never saw the kitchenettes. They never knew about the two-room flats and sleeping rooms he rented, the weekly money orders sent home, the currency exchange," is an example of which literary element?
What is characterization?
How does Esperanza feel about her name in "My Name?"
She feels embarrassed about her name. She got her name from her great-grandmother who was also named Esperanza. But her great-grandmother lost all of her hope, and spent her days at a window waiting for life to start. Esperanza doesn't want to lose what her name means, and she feels herself losing hope. (Ironic, right?)
A comparison using like or as
What is motif?
Decorative lights hung from the ceiling.
What is a chandelier?
The state of wanting to know or learn about something or someone.
What is an interest?
"(My Name) is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving..." is an example of which literary element?
What is a metaphor?
Why does Esperanza have a dream home?
Because she has never lived in a house for a long time, every place she's lived in has been temporary. The apartments she's been in were old and run-down, and she want's a place that she can call home, not just a place where she has a roof over her head.
Giving human qualities to a nonhuman object or being.
What is personification?
The smallest parts of speech.
What is a syllable?
The process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.
What is an education?
"We had to leave the flat on Loomis quick. The water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn't fix them because the house was too old. We had to leave fast. We were using the washroom next door and carrying water over in empty milk gallons." is an example of what literary element?
What is flashback?
Who are the six people in Esperanza's family?
Mama, Papa, Carlos, Kiki, Nenny, and Esperanza.