Literary Terms
What is theme?
What is a central message/idea of a story?
Where is Esperanza from?
Where is Chicago?
What is the Authors name?
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
What is the theme of "The House on Mango Street"?
What is the theme of home?
"I am tired of looking at what we can't have."
What is Esperanza does not like her situation in life and does not want to be reminded that is is not what she hoped for?
What is symbolism?
What is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities?
Where does Esperanza live now?
Where is Mango Street?
Where was the author born?
Where is Chicago?
What is the theme of "My Name"?
what is the theme of identity?
"When you leave you must remember to come back for the others. A circle, understand?"
What is even if Esperanza leaves Mango Street, she must never forget those she knew?
What is juxtaposition?
What is the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect?
What does Esperanza mean in Spanish?
What is it means too many letters, it means sadness and waiting?
What is the authors known style of writing?
What is a vignette?
What is the theme of "Hips"?
what is the theme of coming of age?
"She says she is in love, but I think she did it to escape."
What is Sally married the salesman to get out of the situation at home. It was not because she wanted to get married, she wanted to get away from her abusive father?
What is bildungsroman?
What is a novel dealing with one person's formative years of spiritual education?
What is one symbol of Esperanza's 'deep-rooted' culture?
What is she has the same name as her great-grandmother?
To whom is The House on Mango street dedicated?
Who are the women?
What is the theme of "Marin"?
What is the theme of women in society?
"I have begun my own quiet war."
What is she has begun a war inside her to become beautiful and cruel?
What is social commentary?
What is the act of expressing an opinion on society?
What is one role of women in Latino society as shown in the novel?
What is mothers and hard workers?
What is one award the author has won?
What is the MacArthur Fellowship?
What are the three themes repeated throughout the end of the novel?
what are identity, home, women in society?
"They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who cannot out."
What is even though she plans to leave one day, she will come back for them when she writes about them in her book about Mango Street?