My Name by Sandra Cisneros Quiz

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

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

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

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What point of view is this story told in?

• First person (I, me, my)

• Second person (you)

• Third person (he, she, they)

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

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

• Yes

• No

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

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

• Magdalena

• Esperanza

• Nenny

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3