Characterization
a character that is just an archetype; has no obvious strengths and weaknesses
What is a flat character?
Elie Wiesel
the life lesson of the story
What is theme?
comparison using like or as
What is simile?
the narrator of a poem, whose point-of-view the poem is told from
What is Speaker?
a character that does not change
What is a static character?
the thing that Elie wants to study in chapter 1.
What is Kabbalah?
a length of time in history that shares similar social, cultural, political or religious influences in literature and art.
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings: "time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
What is a Pun?
The emotion evoked in the reader by a literary work
What is mood?
a character that has growth or development throughout the story; the character changes
What is a dynamic character?
a character who was expelled from Sighet for being a foreign Jew.
Who was Moshe the Beadle?
the literary period that focuses on nature, the sublime/spiritual, and emotion
What is the romantic period?
What is Hubris?
2 lines of poetry together
couplet
the development of a character through what they do, say, or how they are described
What is characterization?
Who was Mrs. Schachter?
the placing of key elements of literature next to each other for a narrative effect; example two characters in a novel that frequently interact, emphasizing- the differences in their social class.
What is juxtaposition?
a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition that may contribute to the theme; often a pattern or repeated images
What is motif?
the smallest unit of a poem
What is a line?
a character with strengths and weaknesses and is fully fleshed out, feels like a real person
What is a round character?
the concentration camp where Elie first arrived
What is Birkenau?
the theory or idea we use when we analyze a text; a series of questions that we use to interrogate a text
What is a literary lens?
an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
What is epithet?
4 lines of poetry together
What is quatrain?