English Final

mosquitoes

"Dear JOhn Wayne" by Louise Erdrich show that society doesn't recognize problems until they are noticable, just like a mosquito bite becomes inflamed.

mosquitos break through the smoke screen and "slow-burning spirals" are describing a burning thing that is meant to keep away mosquitoes, but it is ineffective. (In what story?)

"Dear John Wayne" by Louise Erdrich

language and identity is discussed in whats story

"How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anzaldua

Vladek is fromm what story?

"Maus" by Art speiglmen

Relates an American sport to Indian tradition by using the animal metaphor "wild horses" and comparing it to sports like fottbal or cheerleading he does this well. Views the freedom of football to the native spirit. We are American by principle not definition

"Navajo monument at valley tribal school"

What story is in an office setting and foreshadows what the newbies experience at the office will be like?

"Orientation" by Daniel ORzoco

"luke warm" (what story)

"kitchenette building" Gwen. Brooks

institutionalizing of the domestication of women (what story)

"kitchenette building" Gwen. Brooks

Discusses abortion and is symbolically a universal mother (what story)

"the mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks

Bureau of INdian Affairs

("Lulaby" by leslie silko) they come and take Ayahs kids from her to the indian boarding school

paternalism

- the policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates' supposed best interest. ("Going to Meet the Man")

List the three different part in Woman Hollering Creek

1. The first section of the book features stories told from the vantage point of female children, in most instances 2.The teenagers of the second section of the book engage in risky decision-making 3.o In the last, and longest, section of the book, we see the myriad of experiences in adult women's lives.

beat poets

A national group of poets who emerged from San Francisco's literary counterculture in the 1950s. ... Beat poetry is largely free verse, often surrealistic, and influenced by the cadences of jazz, as well by Zen and Native American spirituality. Browse more Beat poets. Not societies elites but bums poets and musician

the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they. ( "wild horses, wild horses, wild horses in Sherman Alexies "The Navajo Movemnet") ?

Anaphora

Who is Vladek

Art Speiglemans father in "Maus", a Holocaust survvor and tells his story.

Silko also represents elements of the oral tradition in the story's ending; when she perceives that her husband Chato, lying curled up in the snow, is dying, ____________ sings a lullaby that her grandmother used to sing to her.

Ayah

List Author "Orientation"

Daniel Orozco

2nd person?

Definition of Second Person. Second person is a point of view (how a story is told) where the narrator tells the story to another character using the word 'you.' ... When writing fiction in second person, the author is making the audience a character, implicating them. ("How to date a brown girl)

giving hints to what will happen in the future is what? adn what story?

Foreshadowing in "Orientation" by Daniel ORzocos

List Author "How to tame a wild tongue"

Gloria Anzalduas

List Author "kitchenette building"

Gwendolyn Brooks

List Author "the mother"

Gwendolyn Brooks

who destroyed the best minds of Ginsburgs generation

In the Hebrew Bible, Moloch was an idolatrous god to whom children were sacrificed by placing them in fire

List Author "Going to Meet the Man"

James Baldwin

List Author "Drown"

Junot Diaz

List Author "How to Date a Browngirl"

Junot Diazs

List Author "Persimmons"

Li-young Lee

LIst Author "Dear John Wayne"

Louise Erdrich

who is maggie?

Maggie represents the "outsider." The way she is treated by both the big kids and by Twyla and Roberta represents the individual whose voice is marginalized. ... The way she is treated by both the big kids and by Twyla and Roberta represents the individual whose voice is marginalized (Recitiiaf by Toni Morrison)

List Author "My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sear"

Mohja Kahf

List Author "Woman Hollering Creek"

Sandra Cisneros

List Author "At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School"

Sherman Alexie

List Author "Crow Testament"

Sherman Alexie

temporal setting

The different stops the narrator, Jing-Mei, makes while on her way to Shanghai, influence her feelings about her Chinese identity and culture. the time something is happening in "A pair or tickets"

chato

The husband that taught Ayah how to do a signature and was an alcoholic who dies in the end. Woman recalls intrusinon of white people to be source of allher tragedies. CHato translated the new that Jimmie died in a helicopter crash, She signed her children away and blamed chato

List Author "Recitatif"

Toni Morrison

two girls bond over the differences they have with their mother, their inability to learn in an orphanage. (Wat story and what are their names?)

Twyla and Roberta in "Recitiaf" by Toni Morrison who always meet in union or reunion.

chocalate thunder

a sex toybought to cheer up a son who is in a coma in ("Do not go gentle" by sherman alexie)

Anika bloom

character in Daniel Orzco's "Orientation"

telenovela

latin soap opera, from "woman from the hollering creek" CLeofiles always compared her life to it

"persimmon" and "precision"

persimmon" and "precision," and by poem's end, these two words resonate with representative significance for a son who has managed to recover specific values from his fading heritage

Describe "Crow Testament"

presents a picture of harships suffered by Native American through the metaphorical image of a crow.

Anthropomorphism

the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. God to Poetry(Yet Do I Marvel"

Anaphora

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses