Vocabulary
Figurative Language & Appositive and Participle phrases
Characters
True/False
Plot Events
100
This means a line of people waiting their turn.
What is queue.
100
Appositive or participle? Definition: A phrase that adds information or clarifies a noun or pronoun in the sentence.
What is an appositive phrase.
100
Night is his memoir, and he's our main character.
Who is Elie Wiesel.
100
An officer at Buna took a special interest in the children, reminiscing about his own child.
What is false.
100
Why did the prisoner tell Elie to say he was eighteen rather than fifteen?
What is he knew he had a better chance of survival because they were more likely to exterminate children.
200
This word means a wooden frame for hanging people.
What is gallows.
200
Does this sentence contain an appositive phrase or a participle phrase? Lying on the ground near the cauldron, he was trying to lift himself to the cauldron's rim to eat.
What is a participle phrase.
200
Who is the scary historical figure that Elie meets at Auschwitz, who is also known by the moniker "the Angel of Death"?
Who is Dr. Mengele.
200
Elie was lucky to get a job in an electrical plant where he often worked next to his father and a young French girl.
What is true.
200
Beginning with giving up their clothes, name one other thing all new prisoners went through when they came to the camp.
What is they could only keep belts and shoes; go to the barber; disinfection; hot shower; clothes were thrown to them of any size.
300
This word means kettles or pots. Hint: It's what the soup is served from.
What is cauldrons.
300
What's the type of figurative language used in the sentence below? "I was nothing but a body...My stomach alone was measuring time" (p. 52).
What is personification.
300
What is Elie's father's first name?
What is Shlomo.
300
The pipel was tortured and hanged because they suspected he had information about the sabotage against the camp's electric power station.
What is true.
300
When Elie was summoned to the dentist, what was ironic about the dentist's appearance?
What is he had horrible yellow, decaying teeth.
400
This word means the destructive action or interference by an enemy.
What is sabotage.
400
What two things are being compared in the simile below? "Idek began beating my father with an iron bar. At first, my father simply doubled over under the blows, but then he seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning" (p. 54).
Shlomo, Elie's father, is compared to old tree shattered by lightning.
400
Which of these characters is the mad commander of Elie's block who suffers from unpredictable violent outbursts? Franek or Idek?
Who is Idek.
400
In front of everyone, Idek beat Elie with a whip because he was not working fast enough.
What is false.
400
Name one of two things the French girl did to surprise Elie.
1) What is she soothed him with kind words and a cool rag after he was beaten by Idek; 2) She spoke perfect German once, thus hiding her true identity as a German Jew.
500
This adjective means handcuffed; shackled.
What is manacled.
500
Identify the type of figurative language expressed in the statement below: "His eyes were shining with greed" (p. 55).
What is imagery.
500
Elie befriends two brothers in the camp, Yossi and Tibi. What do they have in common?
They also took their religion seriously; they knew lots of songs in Hebrew; their parents also refused to leave while there was still time.
500
Because Franek wanted Elie's gold crown, he was willing to barter (trade) with him.
What is false. He harassed and beat up Elie's father until he gave it up.
500
What terrible thing happened to the young boy, the pipel, on the gallows?
What is he died slowly while the others were forced to watch.
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