The House on Mango Street 2

Where is The House On Mango Street set?

• Chicago
• New York City
• New Mexico
• Texas

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What year was The House On Mango Street published?

• 1992
• 1994
• 1984
• 1982

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

The definition of Personification is: 

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
• a brief evocative description, account, or episode.
• a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

A Vignette is a:

• long and straightforward writing technique
• type of home often seen in Chicago in the 1980s
• A loose woman
• A brief evocative description, account, or episode.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

"Windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath" is an example of

• simile
• metaphor
• personification 

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

"Then as if she forgot I just moved in, she says the neighborhood is getting bad"(13)
Who says the neighborhood is getting bad?

• Cathy
• Catherine
• Caty
• Clay

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

_________ share/s a bike with Esperanza and Nenny

• Cathy
• Lucy and Rachel
• Ruthie
• Rachel

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

_________ spent her life looking out the window.

• Mama
• Ruthie
• Great-grandmother
• Minerva

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

___________is Esperanza's responsibility.

• Kiki
• Carlos
• Nenny
• Mama

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.K.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

Our Good Day [14]
“We come from Texas, Lucy says and grins.
Her was born here, but me I’m Texas
You mean she, I say.
No I’m from Texas, and doesn’t get it”
This Quotation:

• Shows the reader that Esperanza is never taken seriously
• Implies that Texas is the worst place to be from
• Shows the reader that Esperanza is just as smart as everyone else
• Implies that Esperanza is not only intelligent, but she is more intelligent than her peers

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3