HOMS Quiz #2 Review

What type of figurative language is NOT present? “His feet were fat and doughy like thick tamales”

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Repetition

What type of figurative language? “They think suffering is good for you ever since they saw that movie 300 Spartans.”

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

Define Rancheras (context clues). "She likes to dance. She knows how to do the cumbias and salsas and rancheras even"

• A type of food

• A type of song

• A type of dance

• A type of celebration

Type of characterization (Esperanza)? “The eskimos got thirty different names for snow, I say, I read it in a book”

• Direct characterization

• Foil

• Internal conflict

• Indirect characterization

Type of characterization (Lucy) “Esperanza’s fat face, that's who. Looks like Esperanza’s ugly face….”

• direct characterization

• subtle characterization

• indirect characterization

• static character

What type of conflict? “I get to school with my mother’s letter and rice sandwich because we don’t have lunch meat”

• Man vs Man

• Man vs Self

• Man vs Nature

• Man vs Society

Define wedged (context clues). "The little wooden door which has wedged shut the dark for so long opens with a sigh"

• powerfully

• slightly cracked

• weakly

• forced or stuck

What type of conflict? "Yes, I nodded, even though I knew that wasn't my house and started to cry"

• man vs man

• man vs self

• man vs nature

• man vs society

What type of conflict? "The water pipes broke and the landlord wouldn't fix them because the house was too old"

• man vs man

• man vs self

• man vs nature

• man vs society

Which of the following best describes the Mango Street neighborhood?

• It is a wealthy and diverse neighborhood

• It is made up of mostly white people

• It is a poor neighborhood of mostly immigrants