What is a simile?
Comparing two things using like or as
She was like an early morning sunrise
Simile
What was the holocaust?
systematic murder and prosecution of millions of jews and other people by the Nazis (Destruction on a mass scale)
yesterday i went to the store
Yesterday I went to the store.
What is the name of the main character?
Yanek
What is a metaphore?
Comparing two things without using like or as
She is a ray of sunshine
Metaphore
Where did Jewish people live before they were taken into concentration camps?
Ghettos
i wanted to go outside i was too tired
I wanted to go outside; I was too tired.
I wanted to go outside, but I was too tired.
The man who strikes the nazis in an attempt to fight back ends up...?
getting shot, multiple other bystanders get shot as well
What is personification?
Giving an object human-like traits
Im so hungry I could eat a horse
Hyperbole
How did the Nazis define who was Jewish in concentration camps?
She doesn't like scary movies
The man who was a Judenrat was..
murdered in the salt mine, and then had salt rubbed in his wounds
What is an alliteration?
repetition at the beginning of words in a sentence
Break a leg
Idiom
Who were the allies?
US, Great Britain, and USSR
Her and me went to the basketball game
Her and I went to the basketball game.
At the end of chapter 14 Yanek vowed to..
never forget
What is a consanance?
Repetition anywhere in a sentence
"Busy as a Bee"
Alliteration
What did a red triangle symbolize?
Political prisoner
Although we practiced a lot we still lost the game
Although we practiced a lot, we still lost the game.
The cattle car arrives at .... which is the death camp of Auschwitz
Birkenau