characters similes and metaphors plot 1 plot 2
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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.