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History Figurative Language Plot I Plot II Motifs
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• Name two factors that contributed to the Holocaust leading up to WWII.
• National Indifference• Treaty of Versailles• Anti Semitism• Depression• Hitler’s charisma
• Describe the invasion of Poland and its significance to the rest of WWII.
• Radio station• Took only three weeks• Beginning of the war• Blitzkrieg: lightening war
• Name two methods of killing the Nazi’s adopted prior to adopting the Final Solution.
• Killing Squads• Euthanasia
• What are the laws called that limited Jewish freedom? Name two.
• Nuremberg Laws
What was Kristallnacht?
• Pogrom where Nazis burned Jewish temples and businesses. 30,000 Jewish men were deported.
• Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald I became very ill with food poisoning. I was transferred to the hospital and spent two weeks between life and death.
• irony
• The march began. The dead stayed in the yard under the snow, like faithful guards assassinated, without burial.
• simile
• Men threw themselves on top of each other, stamping on each other, tearing at each other…Wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes; an extraordinary vitality had seized them.
• Metaphor
• Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.
• Personification
• She [Madame Schachter] continued to scream, breathless, her voice broken by sobs. 'Jews, listen to me! I can see a fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace!'
• Foreshadowing
• What does Elie ask Moshe to teach him? What is Moshe’s advice?
• Instruct him in the Cabbala• Ask God the right questions
but do not expect answers. True questions are answered by your inner self.
• What is a Kapo and how do they function within the camp and the novel?
• A head prisoner, gains power • They keep the other prisoners
in line• They show the hierarchy of
power and the way anti-Semitism was institutionalized and exploited.
• Describe Elie’s arrival at Auschwitz. Include selection.
• Double: who is this person? Angel of Death.
• Men/women separated.• Stripped, decontaminated,
tattooed.• Dr. Mengele
• What is a pipel? And why was the angel faced pipel hanged?
• Child who is given favor, probably sexually abused
• Kapo and resistance movement
• What part of his body does Elie describe himself as becoming while in the camp? Why is this significant?
• A stomach• Dehumanizing• Why not a heart for example?
• At what moment in the text does Elie lose his faith?
• Jewish New Year.• States that he is stronger than
the Almighty.
• What is Elie’s father’s inheritance to him?
• A knife and spoon
• Name two examples of situational irony in the text.
• Leaving the ghetto/police officer
• Liberation in the hospital• Elie giving up his crown/shoes
• Name two characters in the text that experienced a physical death. Explain.
• Zalman• Juliek• Chlomo
• Name two characters in the text that experienced a spiritual death. Explain.
• Meir Katz• Akiba Drumer• Elie• Madame Schachter
• Name one instance of SILENCE in the novel and why it is significant.
• Elie not crying out when his father is beaten by the kapo shows how he was forced to silence his morals in fear of abuse.
• What is the significance of NIGHT in the book. Cite one example.
• First night in Auschwitz. • Begins a time in Elie’s life
where he loses all meaning.
• What facial feature does Wiesel continually describe. Why is this feature significant?
• Eyes• Windows to the soul
• What urge does Elie repeatedly say he is defined by? Name one instance in the text.
• Hunger
• After the hanging of the Warsaw youth, the soup tasted delicious.
• Name the camps Elie went to in order
• Auschwitz-Birkenau• Buna• Gliewitz• Buchenwald