Identity (My Name & If I Had Been Called Sabrina..."

Who is the author of "My Name"?

• Sandra Cisneros

• Marge Piercy

• Emily Dickinson

• Julia Alvarez

Who is the author of "If I Had Been Called Sabrina or Ann, she said"?

• Sandra Cisneros

• Marge Piercy

• Emily Dickinson

• Julia Alvarez

What do the speakers of both texts have in common?

• Both speakers describe how they dislike their names.

• Both speakers describe how they love their names.

• Both speakers describe how their name is not an important part of their identity.

What is Marge Piercy's tone, or attitude in her poem "If I Had Been Called Sabrina or Ann, she said"?

• Piercy writes with a loving tone.

• Piercy writes with a pensive tone (she's thinking or reflecting on her name).

• Piercy writes with a sulking, or grumpy tone.

What is the author doing in line 3?:

Marge? Marge Curie, Nobel Prize winner.

• explaining

• questioning

• describing

What is Piercy doing in these lines:

"My own grandmother called me what

could only be rendered in English

as Mousie..."

• listing

• questioning

• describing

What is the tone of these lines:

"My own grandmother called me what

could only be rendered in English

as Mousie..."

• The tone is nasty since the speaker is being mean.

• The tone is light-hearted, the speaker is giving a funny example.

• The tone is tragic.

What do the final lines reveal about the speaker?

"[...] Even/my tombstone will look like a cartoon."

• The speaker is proud of her name, even in death.

• The speaker thinks her name is a joke, that she will not be taken seriously.

• The speaker thinks death is not something to be feared.

In Cisneros' poem, the narrator is ______________________.

• Esperanza

• Grandma

• Maritza

• Mama

In English ¨Esperanza"means_______________

• strong
• confident
• hope
• ugly