Characters
This character is the one retelling their Holocaust experience.
Who is Vladek Spiegelman?
The city where Vladek and Anja arrive at the start of Chapter 6.
What is Sosnowiec?
Every picture used to represent the Nazis, Jews, Poles, and any other place or idea is an example of this comic device.
What are icons?
The image of Auschwitz is this type of literary term, used to provoke strong emotion in the reader (pg. 157).
Visual Imagery
This character was the writer of the journals Art is looking for.
Who is Anja Spiegelman?
After learning about this location from the black market, Vladek and Anja relocate to this chilly building.
What is Mrs. Kawka's barn?
The transition used when Vladek begins his story and the reader sees the flashback. Ex: end of pg. 135 to start of pg. 136.
What is scene-to-scene?
This use of symbolism at the start of Chapter 6 foreshadows Vladek and Anja's fate.
What is the mouse trap?
This character is seen crying due to Vladek's behavior towards them.
Who is Mala Spiegelman?
This dark and damp place is where Anja's fear of rats is made known.
What is Mrs. Motonowa's cellar?
This type of line is used when dark, human scenes are drawn in Maus.
This literary device is being used when Vladek deviates from normal syntactical sentence structure. Ex: "To your father you yell in this way?" (pg. 161)
What is anastrophe?
This character was a merchant on the black market and helped to hide Anja and Vladek.
Who is Mrs. Motonowa?
The street on which the local black market was located.
What is Dekerta Street?
This transition is used when Vladek reassures the German children and their parents apologize (pg. 149).
What is moment-to-moment?
This literary device reflects a heavy German accent when speaking English, which is why correct verb tense and other parts of speech are occasionally ignored.
What is dialect?
This character was the newphew of a former sweets shop owner and supposedly wrote a letter vouching for the legitimacy of the smugglers.
Who is Abraham Mandlebaum?
The city where Vladek once had his textile factory and where the Gestapo arrest Vladek, Anja, and other Jewish stowaways.
What is Bielsko?
This transition is used when the panels go from focusing on Art to focusing on Vladek (pg. 142).
What is subject-to-subject?
The type of irony used when it turns out Vladek was the one who destroyed Anja's journals.
What is situational irony?