Author/Genre
She is the author of the diary
Who is Anne Frank
Why can't people live peacefully together? Why all this destruction?
What are rhetorical questions?
The devastating effects of war on a child.
What is theme?
We often ask ourselves here despairingly...
what is hopelessly?
The month and year of Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday.
What is June 1942
Diary writing falls under this genre or category.
What is non-fiction?
Frank observes that "millions [are] spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?"
What is (situational) irony?
"I am young and I possess many buried qualities; I ... am living a great adventure..." This represents a shift in what?
What is perspective?
"everything will be "destroyed and disfigured"
What is "ruined the appearance of" someone or something?
The country where Frank and her family move to in order to escape the Nazis.
What is Holland (or the Netherlands)?
Frank's diary was written in the form of letters addressed to this person.
Who is her imaginary friend named Kitty?
Along with the little man, the big man, and the politicians, Frank blames these people for the condition of the world.
Who are the capitalists?
Anne Frank imagines her future this way.
What is "different from ordinary housewives."
"I treat oll the privations as amusing."
what is the lack of basic necessities?
This is the site of the concentration camp where Anne Frank died.
What is "Bergen-Belsen"?
The excerpt we're reading was written on this date and year?
What is May 3, 1994?
In the end, Anne Frank overcame this challenge.
What is her attitude toward her situation (her internal conflict)?
According to Anne Frank, the most dangerous moments have this side to them that she must laugh at.
What is a "humorous side."
This word that Anne Frank uses in her diary means causing laughter, or is comic.
what is "humorous"?
The name of the attic where Anne Frank and her family hid.
What is "The Secret Annex"?
What are "her most intimate thoughts"?
This strategy is the driving force of the entry. It opens and ends it.
What is rhetorical questions?
In the excerpt, Anne Frank must choose either to be in despair or cheerful about what is happening in the world.
What is internal conflict?
Anne Frank characterizes herself as all of the following EXCEPT:
young, in despair, full of cheerfulness, downcast.
What is "in despair"?
The only survivor from Anne Frank's family.
Who is her father, Otto?