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Poetry
HOMS
Night Intro
Night Chs. 1-2
Potent Potables
100
Words that imitate sounds. For example, Boom! Slash! Bang!
What is onomatopoeia
100
This character from HOMS describes her hair as "lazy."
Who is Esperanza?
100
Elie Wiesel is this religion.
What is Jewish?
100
This character of Night escapes death and comes back to warn the citizens of Sighet about the horrors of the Holocaust.
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
100
These are always underlined or italicized.
What are books?
200
An exaggerated statment. For example, "Kayla weighs a ton."
What is hyperbole?
200
This piece of clothing is what Esperanza's mother forgets to buy when she goes to the baptisim.
What are new shoes for Esperanza?
200
This is the first permanent concentration camp.
What is Dachau?
200
These people showed up to the town of Sighet and the townspeople weren't afraid of them...at first.
Who are the Germans?
200
This is the correct spelling of this often misspelled word (we learned it in class.)
What is d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y?
300
The repetition of initial consonant sounds. For example, Meghan Mills, or phone and foot
What is alliteration?
300
This simile describes grandpa's feet in "The Family of Little Feet."
What is "fat and doughy like thick tamales"?
300
This is the year WWII ended.
What is 1945?
300
This is how Elie describes his town.
What is very religious/tight-knit?
300
This is the next nine weeks' SMART book.
What are autobiographies/memoirs?
400
This poetic term comes at the end of a sonnet.
What is a couplet?
400
This person died in the chapter "Papa Who Wakes Up Tired in the Dark."
Who is Esperanza's grandfather, or abuleito.
400
This doctor murdered many people at Auschwitz. Elie was lucky enough to be passed through during a selection from this doctor.
Who is Dr. Mengele?
400
This is the name of the concentration camp the Jews arrive at in Chapter 2.
What is Auschwitz?
400
This is how song titles are puncutated.
What is with quotation marks?
500
This element of poetry is described as the writer's attitude toward his or her audience. Night could be described as having a naive this.
What is tone?
500
This character died after spending a night dancing at the club. He was an illegal immigrant.
Who is Geraldo?
500
This is the total amount of Jews who died in the Holocaust.
What is 6 million?
500
This character had premonitions of fire, death, and destructions on the cattle cars.
Who is Madame Schachter?
500
This punctuation mark separates two full, related sentences.
What is a semicolon?