Night
Poetry
A Raisin in the Sun
Literary Devices
Wild Card
100

This person wrote Night in 1958

Who is Elie Weisel? 

100

This person is the person you did your poet project on. 

Who is _________? 

Edgar Allan Poe - Ryan
Robert Frost - Wesley
Shel Silverstein - Ethan
Sylvia Plath - Jacob
Maya Angelou - Liberty
Ogden Nash - Lily
Du Fu - Ciara
T. S. Eliot - Jesse
Pablo Neruda - Aaden
Dylan Thomas - Kaden
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Kara
Wallace Stevens - Kaitlin
Billy Collins - Kylie

100

This city is the one the Younger family lives in. 

What is Chicago? 

100

This literary term refers to when multiple words begin with the same letter.

What is Alliteration? 

100

This country, described in Night, was the main perpetrator of the Holocaust. 

What is Germany? 

200

This item, in Elie's possession, is something the dentist wants to take from Elie. 

What is a gold tooth? 

200

This type of poem consists of three lines: one with five syllables, one with seven syllables, and another with five syllables.

What is a Haiku? 

200

Mama inherited this amount of money from Walter's father. 

What is $10,000? 

200

This literary term refers to words that have similar vowel sounds. 

What is assonance? 

200

This literary term refers to words that share the same consonant sound. 

What is consonance? 

300

This concentration camp, in modern-day Poland, was where Elie and his family were initially sent. 

What is Auschwitz?

300
This literary term refers to a group of lines in a poem.

What is a stanza? 

300

This suitor of Beneatha is admired by Mama and Ruth due to his money. 

Who is George Murchinson? 

300

This literary device refers to comparing two things with the words "like" or "as"

What is a Simile? 

300

This type of poem consists of only four lines. 

What is a quatrain?

400

This is the common term for when concentration camp prisoners were forced to walk from one camp to the other, often for days at a time. 

What is a death march? 

400

This person, known for his "jazz" poetry, is recognized as the greatest poet of the Harlem Renaissance. 

Who is Langston Hughes? 

400

This job position is the one that Walter Lee currently works as. 

What is a Chauffeur? 

400

This literary term refers to words that are meant to represent sounds. 

What is onomatopoeia? 

400

This person wrote A Raisin in the Sun in 1959

Who is Lorraine Hansberry? 

500

This Jewish celebration of the New Year, usually marked by sweet food and horn-blowing, is one Elie is unable to partake in at the concentration camp.

What is Rosh Hashanah? 

500

This term refers to poetry that deals with emotions and feelings.

What is lyrical poetry? 

500

The title of A Raisin in the Sun is taken from a poem written by this person. 

Who is Langston Hughes? 

500

This literary term refers to the act of exaggeration.

What is hyperbole? 

500

This poet wrote the lines "Because I could Not Stop For Death / He Kindly stopped for Me" 

Who is Emily Dickinson? 

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