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A vignette is short snippet in time--a brief memory. It comes from the French, meaning a small vine. I learned the vignette from Sandra Cisneros' "House on Mango Street," which I taught to my inner-city high school kids in LA. Here's one example from the book:

Where do you live? she asked. There, I said pointing up to the third floor. You live there? There. I had to look to where she pointed—the third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn’t fall out. You live there? The way she said it made me feel like nothing. There. I lived there. I nodded. I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn’t it. The house on Mango Street isn’t it. For the time being, Mama says. Temporary, says Papa. But I know how those things go.