Symbolism
Story elements
Figurative Language
Literary &character terms
100

 Is a literary device where an author uses a physical object, person, situation, color, or action to represent an abstract idea, theme, or emotion beyond its literal meaning

What is symbolism?

100

The part of the story where the problems are occurring.

What is rising action?

100

What figurative language uses "like" or "as"?

What is a simile?

100

What the character is like on the inside.Determined by their actions and thoughts.

What are character traits?

200

This overarching title motif functions as a visual and literal symbol for the spiritual and emotional darkness, death, and absence of God experienced by the prisoners.

What is Night

200

The characters, time, and setting are introduced.

What is exposition?

200

What figurative language gives objects human form?

What is personification?

200

The moral or lesson of the story.

What is a theme?

300

The Jewish symbol.

What is the yellow star?

300

The sequence of events in a story.

What is a plot?

300

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying. What figurative language is this?

What is hyperbole?

300

Someone who contrasts with another character.

What is a foil character?

400

Representing the literal destruction of the prisoners, this recurring fiery image at Birkenau also symbolizes the annihilation of Elie’s traditional religious faith.

What is crematory, fire, furnace

400

To study and break apart information.

What is analysis/analyze?

400

An expression of two or more words that means something other than its literal meaning.

What is an idiom?

400

The emotions the reader feels when reading a piece of writing.

What is mood?

500

Eliezer’s final gaze into this object at the end of the memoir introduces the haunting "corpse" motif, symbolizing the permanent death of his former self.

What is a mirror

500

An author's purpose is to 

entertain, explain, inform, or persuade

500

What figurative language is (Heaven on earth?)

What is a metaphor?

500

What point of view is " The Night "?

Ist person 

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