Their purpose is to summarize events, warn of disasters, and represent a point of view. They always speak in unison.
What is the Chorus?
100
Elie's hometown
What is Sighet?
100
barbed wire
What is symbolism?
100
He wrote the story of Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
100
He tries to warn the Jews of Sighet.
Who is Moche the Beadle?
200
He is famous for killing his father and marrying his mother.
Who is Oedipus?
200
instrument used to remove Elie's gold crown
What is a rusty spoon?
200
"How I sympathized with Job!"
What is allusion?
200
the downfall of a dignified, superior character
What is a tragedy?
200
the "inheritance" Elie recieves from his father
What is a fork and spoon
300
He believes above all, a good ruler must be strong. Pride is his biggest flaw, and his punishment is the death of his wife and son.
Who is Creon?
300
He decides to give up and die after losing his faith in God.
Who is Akiba Drumer?
300
"It is a warning to the living that atrocities like the Holocaust can happen and will happen again if we are not vigilant."
What is theme?
300
irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected
What is situational irony?
300
the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as the day of rest and religious observance among Jews and some Christians; Elie's family was deported from the ghetto on this day
What is the Sabbath?
400
Creon believes this person first buried Polyneices.
Who is the guard?
400
this stares back at Elie at the end of the novel
What is a corpse?
400
"I've got a premonition of evil," said my mother.
What is foreshadowing?
400
mass exit
What is exodus?
400
Jewish prayer for the dead
What is the Kaddish?
500
Creon accuses him of accepting bribes.
Who is Teiresias? or Who is the guard?
500
the slogan for Auschwitz
What is "work is liberty"?
500
"I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people."
What is irony?
500
literary element that compares Creon's stubbornness to a tree that is swept up in a flood
What is a metaphor?
500
Elie hears this in the middle of the night while at Gleiwitz