| A | B |
|---|
| exile | to be forced out of a place |
| the poet's exile lasted | for a decade |
| Name of poet: | Julia Alvarez |
| Name of the poet's novel: | In the Time of the Butterflies |
| "Exile" is a: | narrative poem |
| The poet's homeland: | the Dominican Republic |
| The poem's two settings: | Ciudad Trujilla/New York City |
| the poet feels this in America: | alienation |
| "like Jesus' on his cross" is: | a simile |
| 'Papi' is an example of: | a connotation |
| Heidi is an allusion to: | a blonde girl in a book. |
| The year the family fled: | 1960 |
| The theme of the poem: | she must survive as Jesus did. |
| Trujilo's henchman drove: | black Volkswagons |
| console means: | to try to make one feel better |
| grim | upset; bad; horrible |
| the person telling the story: | narrator |
| four martyrs of the Domincan: | the Mirabel sisters |
| Why her father doesn't fit in: | his accent/ his clothes |
| fate of Trujillo: | assasinated |
