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Figurative Language
Figurative Language 2
Night
Night 2
100
The sequence of events that make up a story.
What is the plot.
100
A comparison using like or as and one without using like or as
A simile.
100
The use of over exaggeration.
What is hyperbole.
100
The author of "Night"
Elie Wiesel
100
A-7713
The number tattooed on Elie's arm.
200
Explains setting, characters and background.
What is exposition.
200
A comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.
A metaphor.
200
Pairing opposite words together.
What is oxymoron.
200
A quiet, thoughtful man who warns the Jews of Sighet about the massacres of Jews by the Gestapo.
Moishe the Beadle
200
The camp where most of the story takes place.
Buna
300
The actions that lead to the high point of the story.
What is the rising action.
300
An over exaggeration that is used to emphasize something or show how a person feels about a topic, person, idea, etc.
Hyperbole.
300
Saying something in a nicer way is a
What is a euphemism.
300
She thinks there is a fire before anyone sees one.
Madame Schacter
300
All foreign Jews were expelled from this town first.
Sighet
400
The point of the highest emotional interest that has you on the edge of your seat.
What is the climax.
400
When the first consonant (not a, e, I, o, or u) sound is repeated.
Alliteration
400
An expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the individual words
an idiom
400
Dies from dysentary and a beating by an SS officer.
Mr. Wiesel (Elie's father)
400
He performed medical experiments on Jews during the Holocaust.
Dr. Joseph Mengele
500
This part of the plot concludes the story.
What is the resolution.
500
The use of a word that sounds like its meaning
What is onomatopoeia
500
The use of symbols to represent things such as ideas and emotions.
Symbolism
500
He is in charge of Elie's barrack and whips him after being discoverd with a Polish girl.
Idek
500
This place had an iron door with the inscription "Work is Liberty" over it.
Auschwitz