My Name by Sandra Cisneros Quiz

The narrator really dislikes her name and would like to be known as Zeze the X?

• True

• False

What figurative device is used by the narrator, in this sentence, to describe the way her great grandfather carried off her grandmother? "Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier."

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

What figurative device is used by the narrator, in this sentence, to describe her name? "It is like the number nine."

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

What point of view is this story told in?

• First person (I, me, my)

• Second person (you)

• Third person (he, she, they)

Is the following an example of a simile? "…born, like me, in the Chinese year of the horse."

• Yes

• No

What is the name of the narrator (the person telling the story)?

• Magdalena

• Esperanza

• Nenny

What figurative device is used by the narrator, in this sentence, to describe her name? "It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving…"

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

What figurative device is used by the narrator, in this sentence, to describe her grandmother? "I would've like to have known her, a wild, horse of a woman."

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

What figurative device is used by the narrator, in the italicised part of this sentence, to describe how she feels about her sister's name? "… not quite as thick as sister's name Magdalena- which is uglier than mine."

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

Write down one other sentence that uses a figurative device and identify what the device is.

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