ELA II Final Exam Review

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Across
  1. 3. The narrator’s name.
  2. 7. Extreme Exaggeration
  3. 10. Mango Street is located in which Illinois city?
  4. 12. Vocab word to describe this tone: “...it’s obvious I’m the only one who can speak with any authority”
  5. 15. Major thematic topic throughout the book that contributes to the narrator’s identity.
  6. 17. Vivid descriptions appealing to the 5 senses
  7. 18. A word to describe a poor person/beggar.
  8. 21. Literary Device: “It’s like all of a sudden he let go a million moths” (Cisneros 23).
  9. 22. Literary Device: “With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias” (Cisneros 62).
  10. 23. A figurative phrase that only has meaning to a particular culture
  11. 24. Esperanza and her friends make fun of this character as she is dying
  12. 25. Name of the narrator’s younger sister.
  13. 26. Antonym for modern
Down
  1. 1. Literary Device: “All at once she bloomed. Huge, enormous, beautiful to look at…” (Cisneros 50).
  2. 2. Ethnicity of most characters living on Mango Street.
  3. 4. Major thematic topic in Parts 4-5 of the book.
  4. 5. The way that an author introduces a character or helps the reader get to know them
  5. 6. Which character dies because the ER doctors neglect him?
  6. 8. Literary Device: “Windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath” (Cisneros 17).
  7. 9. Sisters who Esperanza and Nenny often hang out with
  8. 11. Synonym for Infamous
  9. 13. A word to describe a group of people who are eligible to vote
  10. 14. A style of writing that is a short snapshot of a moment and usually poetic.
  11. 16. Esperanza struggles with whether or not to step in and help her friends being abused.
  12. 19. A woman who reads Esperanza’s future through tarot cards
  13. 20. A comparison of 2 unlike things using the words “like” or “as”