Literary Terminology
The same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words
alliteration
The dance that symbolizes Nora's spirited and defiant side in A Doll's House
tarantella
Old Hickey
The narrator of Signs Preceding the End of the World
Makina
The antagonist Esteban Trueba
House of the Spirits
An individual frame of a graphic novel
A panel
The name of the company in Sweat that serves as a symbol of corporate greed turning working class people against each other
Olstead's
The product Candace manufactures and a symbol of capitalism's corruption of spirituality and meaning
Bible
The youngest woman in the three generations depicted in The House of the Spirits, as well as the novel's narrator
Alba
The motif of the Shen Fever
Severance
The literary term for a type of reference that includes the 2008 recession in Sweat, as well as the references to border control in Signs Preceding the End of the World
Political allusions
The play in which the protagonist speaks this line: "Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!"
Macbeth
Nativism
Candace's boyfriend in Severance, a foil character to her
Jonathan
The neologisms "anglo" and "homegrown"
Signs Preceding the End of the World
The term for punctuation in the middle of a line of poetry
caesura
The epigraph of Sweat comes from this poem by Langston Hughes
Let America Be America Again
This is a symbol for crossing the border and serves as the chapter structure of the novel Signs Preceding the End of the World
The Aztec levels of the underworld
His anger towards his grandfather, Esteban Trueba, fuels cruel behavior in The House of the Spirits
Esteban Garcia
The metaphor amputation versus gangrene
Notes of A Native Son
When an image or part of an image (say, in a graphic novel) draws the eye in more than other images, e.g. because it's darker or more pronounced than other images or other parts of the image
graphic weight
Nora takes out a loan so that Torvald can recover his health in this country
Italy
The insect that symbolize Esteban Trueba's inability to fully control Tres Maria and the natural world around him
Ants
The character in Severance whose presumed suicide at The Facility helps to motivate Candace's escape
Evan
The narrator is a ghost writer who encounters the ghost of her brother who tried to save her life in a pirate attack when they fled Vietnam
Black-Eyed Women