Show:
Night
Simile and/or Metaphor
Mood & Tone
Adjectives
Point of View (POV)
100
The town where Elie Wiesel and his family are from.
What is Sighet?
100
Literary techniques commonly used in poetry
What are Similes AND Metaphors.
100
This helps convey the feeling of a passage.
What is tone?
100
Modifies this part of speech.
What are nouns?
100
This POV puts the reader in the story. Signal words: yours, your, you.
What is second person?
200
Designated areas where Jews were force to live.
What are ghettos?
200
A comparison that uses "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
200
This literary device is the speaker's or writer's choice of words. Word choice helps create mood and tone.
What is diction?
200
Questions adjectives answer are_________________? (You must have three questions in your answer to earn the point. We've talked about four.)
What is - What kind? Which one? How many? How much? (Any three of the above four) Other answers may be acceptable if it is legitimate. These are the easy four.
200
The most unreliable narrator would have this POV.
What is first person?
300
Jewish mysticism that Moishe the Beadle taught Eliezer.
What is Kabbalah?
300
"When the cat stalks his prey, he is a shadow." The sentence above is an example of this.
What is a metaphor? A metaphor is a comparison that does not use the words "like" or "as"
300
This is the physical surroundings of the story. It often reflects the mood. e.g. gloomy settings may reflect the gloomy nature of the story.
What is the setting?
300
The purpose an adjective serves?
What is to add details.
300
What POV would you most likely find in a novel that explores the deepest thoughts and feelings of a number of characters?
What is Third person omniscient?
400
Moishe the Beadle miraculously survived slaughter in the Galician forest. How was this possible?
He was wounded in the leg and left for dead.
400
"As snug as a bug in a rug."
What is a simile? Notice that it uses the word as.
400
This is the overall feeling from a piece of writing. It may be similar or different from the tone.
What is mood?
400
"The dog is bigger than the cat." In this sentence, the word "bigger" is what TYPE of adjective.
What is comparative? It compares the size of the dog and cat.
400
Night is told from this POV
What is first person?
500
Who is Eliezer's little sister?
What is Tzipora?
500
"Laughter is the music of the soul"
What is a metaphor? Metaphors compare two different things but describes them as the same thing. In the metaphor in this question, laughter=music of the soul.
500
A set of rules in a language. It dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought. It is simply the way we put sentences together.
What is a syntax?
500
I could not find this hat yesterday. The adjective in the above sentence.You will get a bonus point if you can tell me the type of adjective.
What is this? Bonus: Demonstrative
500
The narrator focuses on one character and only reveals the thoughts of that character.
What is third person limited?