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Figurative Language
Mango Madness!!
More Mango!
So Random! & Very Tough!
English Class
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"Look at that house," I said, "it looks like Mexico." Which literary device is used there?
Simile
100
Who is the main character and narrator of the story? EASIEST QUESTION EVER!!!!
Esperanza!!!!
100
What do the Vargas kids not have that contributes to their poor behavior?
A father.
100
Math Question!!: Find the sum of the two odd numbers between 6 and 10. Then divide that number by 4. Once you have done that multiply that number by 25. Once you have the result of that number take the result and add 1. What do you have? Hint: Black & White Bark Disney!
101!
100
What is a vignette?
In a novel, theatrical script, screenplay, sketch stories, and poetry, a vignette is a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or character and gives an impression about that character, an idea, setting, and/or object.It's a short, descriptive passage that's more about evoking meaning through imagery than it is about plot.
200
My great grandmother. I would have liked to have known her, a wild horse of a woman, so wild she would not marry.
Metaphor
200
Give me a description of the Mango Street neighborhood.
The neighborhood appears a bit run down-houses aren't kept up, families living there don't appear to have a lot of money, neighbors seem close/know each other's business
200
The character who does not speak English is named?
Mamacita!
200
Daily Double!! #3
Science question: The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water is known as...
200
Fill in the missing words from our debatable question from the unit.How much does a person’s ____status ____what they will become in the future?
Economic, Determine
300
Because Lucy has long legs she pedals. I sit on the back seat and Rachel is skinny enough to get up on the handle bars which makes the bike all wobbly as if the wheels are spaghetti.
Simile
300
Name two things that Esperanza's name means?
Hope, Sadness, Waiting
300
Daily Double # 2
What country is Esperanza from?
300
This phobia was addressed in the chapter "Those Who Don't"
Xenophobia
300
What is juxtaposition?
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
400
Daily Double!!!!!!#1
Fill in the blank and then tell what literary element is used! Until then I am a ___ ___, a balloon tied to an anchor.
400
Describe the main character's relationship with her younger sister.
Answers vary!
400
What is Esperanza's first job? I need the name of the place!
Peter Pan's Photo Finishers
400
You will always find me in the past. I can be created in the present, But the future can never taint me. What am I?
History
400
The three themes we had the option to write about in Bog Child were.....
Childhood, adulthood, Identity
500
But what you remember is most is this tree, huge, with fat arms…
Personification!
500
What does Esperanza admire about her grandmother and what does she not want to inherit from her.
1. She is a wild horse of a woman-free spirited 2. Forced to marry and stuck staring out the window-maybe living a life she didn't want to have.
500
This character is imprisoned by her husband.
Rafaela
500
_______is the philosophical idea that every event or state of affairs, including every human decision and action, is the inevitable and necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs.
Determinism
500
What is the big debate at the center of this unit? We discussed this in class at the beginning of the unit!
Nature v Nurture!