characters similes and metaphors plot 1 plot 2

Characters

Similes and

Metaphors

Plot 1

Plot 2

Irony

Potpourri

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“Why do you cry

when you pray?”

Who is Moshie

the Beadle?

“…was a cultured man,

rather unsentimental

. He rarely displayed his feelings…”

Who is Mr.

Wiesel?

“Her husband and two older sons had been deported with

the first transport, by

mistake.”

Who is Mrs.

Schacter?

“He was holding a

conductor’s baton and was surrounded by

officers.”

Who is Dr.

Mengele?

“I thought you might have

some news of Reizel and my two small boys who stayed in

Antwerp…”

Who is Sten of Antwer

p?

“He looked over us as if we were a

pack of leprous dogs hanging on

to our lives.”

What is Simile?

“The world was a cattle

wagon.”

What is Metapho

r?

“Standing in the middle of the wagon…she looked

like a withered tree

in a corn field.”

What is Simile?

“Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked out into the

void. It all belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. It was

there for the taking. An open tomb.”

What is Metaph

or?

“Then, two ‘gravediggers’ grabbed him by

the head and feet and threw him from the wagon, like a sack of flour.”

What is Simile and

Metaphor?

How Elie and his father make it through

their first selection

What is lying about their ages?

18 and 40

What are the ages Elie and

his father gave instead of their real

ages?

How Elie saved his new shoes

(for a while) upon arrival at the first

camp

What is they were covered in

mud?

What Elie sees when he looks in the mirror at the

end of the novel

What is a corpse?

The vision Mrs. Schacter keeps having on the train when the

Jews are deported to Auschwitz

What is fire?

Elie’s “inheritance”

from his father when they thought he didn’t pass selection

What is a knife and spoon?

How old Elie was when the

story begins

What is 12 years old?

What the SS guards do

when they see the prisoners eating snow off of each

other’s backs

What is laugh?

Two symbols used

throughout Night to symbolize

Elie’s torment

What are fire and night?

Elie’s struggles with his

faith, himself, and indifference

are an example of this conflict

What is internal conflict?

Elie nearly dies from

food poisoning

after being freed

What is Situationa

l Irony?

Elie’s father tells him “what a

shame you did not go with your mother…”

What is Dramatic

Irony?

Type of Irony where there

is a difference between what

is said and what is meant

What is Verbal Irony?

If Elie had stayed in the infirmary wing instead of

marching with the rest of the

prisoners he would have been freed by the Red

Army much earlier

What is Situational Irony?

Type of Irony displayed when

Elie’s father says “’The

yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don’t die of

it…’”

What is situationa

l irony?

Character – “He stayed

out of people’s

way”

Who is Moishe

the Beadle?

Elie ends up in the infirmary because of

this

What is because his

foot was frostbitten?

Genre of the novel

Night

What is memoir?

The reason Elie is

severely whipped by

Idek, the Kappo

What is because

he caught him with a

girl?

After the little angel

boy is hanged, the soup tastes of this later that night

What is corpses?

Final Jeopardy:

Explain why Night is an appropriate

metaphor for Elie’s experiences

during the Holocaust.