Characters
The main character and narrator of Night
Who is Elie Wiesel?
The name of the town where Elie and his family live at the beginning of the book.
What is Sighet?
Comparing two things using like or as
What is a simile?
The woman on the train who sees visions of fire and flames
Who is Mrs. Schachter?
An area inside of a city where the Nazis forced all of the Jewish people to live (a walled in part of the city).
What is a ghetto?
Comparing 2 things not using like or as
What is a metaphor?
Does Elie have brothers or sisters?
Sisters
A place/building where Jewish people go to worship (like a church).
What is a synagogue?
A question that is not meant to be answered and is asked to be dramatic (or to emphasize a point).
What is a rhetorical question?
The family member who is imprisoned at Auschwitz with Elie.
Who is Elie's father?
The country the Nazis were from during World War II.
What is Germany?
Is this a simile or a metaphor?
The English class was a horrible prison.
The old man who teaches Elie about Judaism and survives a massacre.
Who is Moishe the Beadle?
The concentration/extermination camp that Elie and his family are first deported to.
What is Auschwitz?
A saying or phrase that does not mean what it literally says (ex: it's raining cats and dogs)
What is an Idiom?