Who?
Spends time thinking about the "Mumsie" she wants to be when she has her own children one day.
Who is Anne?
A pogram on November 9th and 10th in 1938 known as the "Night of Broken Glass."
What is Kristallnacht?
What is a simile?
"The only way to take one's mind off it all is to study, and I do a lot of that" (112).
What is Anne's priority in hiding?
Violence committed against a national, ethnic, or racial group with the intent to destroy that group
What is genocide?
Makes a Christmas cake with PEACE 1944 written on top.
Who is Miep?
The irrational hatred of Jews accompanied by discrimination and persecution
What is Anti-Semitism?
"...sent to a slaughterhouse like a herd of sick, neglected cattle" (75).
What is a simile?
"P.S. - Will the reader take into consideration that when this story was written the writer had not cooled down from her fury?" (94).
How does Anne use the third-person perspective and/or humor to express her strong emotions?
Listening to the radio, the members of the Secret Annexe get information and ________ about how much longer until the war is over. (vocabulary word)
What is SPECULATE?
Comes to Anne in a dream
Who is Lies? (Granny also)
Beginning in 1935 in Germany, these took away the citizenship and other legal rights of Jews.
What are the Nuremberg Laws?
"Trrrrr - the alarm clock that raises its voice at any hour of the day...Crack - ping - Mrs. Van Daan has turned it off. Creak - Mr. Van Daan gets up..." (98).
What is onomatopoeia?
"I would like to shout to Margot, Van Daan, Dussel, and Daddy too - 'Leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning, my head throbbing..." (64)
How does Anne express her need for privacy?
Anne gets _____ night and day by most everyone in hiding with the exception of Margot and the helpers.
What is REBUKED?
"Twaddles on and on about his wife's expensive wardrobe" (145).
Who is Mr. Dussel?
A word of Hebrew origin meaning a completely burned sacrifice; often used to describe the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis
What is the Holocaust?
"I have not enough faith in God. He has given me so much - which I certainly do not deserve - and I still do so much that is wrong every day..." (126).
How is Anne coming of age and confessing her need for God?
What is PEDANTIC?
Says, "I have now reached the stage that I don't care much whether I live or die. The world will still keep on turning without me..." (150).
Who is Anne?
Detention centers set up by the Nazis for work, holding, or death of Jews
What are concentration camps?
"I believe that it's spring within me; I feel that spring is awakening..." (151).
What is personification?
"That's why in the end I always come back to my diary. That is where I start and where I finish, because Kitty is always so patient" (46).
How does Anne acknowledge her dependency on writing as an outlet?
A biblical Hebrew word meaning catastrophe or destruction; used to refer to the six million Jews killed under Hitler
What is SHOAH?