Characters
Colloquialisms
Literary Devices
Figurative Language
It's Your Guess
100
Hannah
Who is the protagonist in The Devil's Arithmetic
100
Chosen
What is being sent to the gas chambers?
100
Hannah remembers upsetting Grandpa Will by writing numbers on her arm.
What is a flashback
100
"with an arm like a tree and a brain like a stone."
What is a simile
100
Work Makes You Free
What is irony
200
Rivka
Who is in charge of handing out bowls. Who is Aunt Eva?
200
organized
What is stealing?
200
The mention of Lillith's cave
What is an allusion
200
"what a strange little bird you are."
What is a metaphor
200
The reference to the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel"
What is an allusion
300
Chaya
Who is Hannah named after? What is Hannah's name in 1942?
300
musselmen
What is the walking dead? What is hopeless?
300
The badchan says, "I see the Angel of Death."
What is a foreshadow.
300
"like spawning fish, the children came from everywhere to dive into the pile."
What is a simile
300
On the way to the wedding, Gitl sings,"give me a piece of bread. Look at me so pale and dead."
What is foreshadow
400
Wolfe
Who is Rivka's brother? Who is Grandpa Will?
400
midden
What is the trash pile?
400
Jane Yolen uses the contrast of beautiful description and horrible actions.
What is author's style.
400
"the tops of the trees danced to rhythms all their own"
What is personification
400
Gitl's nickname for the Nazis.
What is monsters.
500
Aunt Eva
Who is Rivka? Who is Hannah's favorite aunt?
500
zugangi
What is the name for new arrivals?
500
The sparrows scooping down to eat the insects.
What is symbolism
500
"you know so much...telling you anything more is carrying straw to Egypt.
What is an idiom
500
He escaped into the woods
Who is Yitzchak
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