(worth 50 points) We learned that a vignette is a little slice of life or a snapshot of an experience. In the novella, Esperanza talks about her writing, her family/friends, her culture, her home, and even her name. Directions: Write your own vignette or snapshot on a topic of your choosing. Imitate the writing style of Sandra Cisneros by writing sentences with punch as we learned in the podcast.

Writing Requirements:

Minimum of one full page (double-spaced). Use Times New Roman/Font Size: 12. Margins should be set to 1 inch all around.
Use narrative techniques: dialogue, description, reflection, well-chosen details.
Include a catchy title. Do not title your piece "My Vignette" or something generic. Think about the titles Cisneros chooses in "Mango Street"

Returning from vietnam, we were indeed given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. what is one way the author's use of language contributes to the tone of this passage? a. the use of figurative language creates a feeling of resentment. b. the phrase "hot, angry tangle" is used sarcastically to create irony. c. the word "parade" is used sarcastically to create a lighthearted mood. d. the parallelism draws attention to the confusion of those returning.

Used for an event that has been completed before the present moment in time. simple past past perfect perfect progressive past perfect progressive

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed