Characters
Similes and Metaphors
Plot 1
Plot 2
Irony
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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 Antwerp?
“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 Metaphor?
“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 Metaphor?
“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 Situational 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 situational 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.