Figurative Language
What is a simile?
What is a metaphor?
What is alliteration?
What is onomotopoeia?
comparison using like or as
comparison without using like or as
peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
sound words
What does Reni call her parents?
What does Reni call her grandparents?
Pappi and Mutti
Opa and Omi
Why did the family move to Amsterdam?
Pappi lost his job
What were the buildings called where people slept?
Barracks
How did Reni get to America, specifically?
Cargo Ship
"The boxcars sat there, doors open, looking hungry."
What type of figurative language is used?
personification
What were some of the restrictions Jews had before being taken to concentration camps?
answers may vary
no bikes, no large gatherings, curfew, no movies, wearing the Star of David, etc.
Why did Reni like roll call?
She was with her family
Where did Reni land when she came to America?
New York
“Ka-boom. My bed shuddered in the dark. Boom. Boom. More explosions. BOOM. A sharp wind blew into the room as glass like hail showered my bed.”
What types of figurative language are used?
onomatopoeia
simile
What was Werner's job in the concentration camp and what was his injury?
shoe maker
his foot was injured
How old was Reni when she was taken to Bergsen-Belsen
12
How were people identified at Auschwitz?
A number tattooed on their body.
What university did Reni attend?
Duke University
"...the blazing beach and soothing sea he so loved."
What type of figurative language is used? What kind of tone does this sentence have?
alliteration
answers may vary, peaceful, positive, relaxing
malnutrition and/or from being beaten in the camp
How old was Reni when she was liberated and left for America?
15
What were some of the diseases in the camps?
lice, dysentery, polio, tuberculosis, typhus, pneumonia, etc.
How many children did she have
2
"I remembered my first impression of Bergen-Belsen: that we were like tiny marbles being tossed onto a vast dizzying plain. Now, ten months later, there was no space between us."
What type of figurative language is used? What does this piece of figurative language convey about Reni's experience at Bergen-Belsen?
simile
Not many people there at first, all space out. Then, more and more people started showing up, making the camp more populated.
Which family members did Reni see at Westerbork?
(excluding Pappi, Mutti, and Werner)
Her aunt and uncle (Tante Alice and Oom Paul)
Why did Reni freak out when she heard a train, could not eat turnip soup at a friends house and save even the smallest of leftovers?
Because the train was the method of transpiration to the concentration camps, she ate turnip soup there every day and they had very little food.
What was sewn on the uniform of Jews
The Star of David
What is Reni doing now?
Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan