BY KYLE HEBL

“Night”Activity D2

1) Foreshadowing

Page 34“Look! Look at it! Fire! A terrible fire! Mercy!

Oh that fire!” Some of the men pressed up against the bars. There was nothing there; only the darkness.”

This hints at the future of the prisoners. The fire hints at what becomes a crematorium that kills Jews in mass numbers.

2) Simile

Page 97“He left then as he had come: like a wind-

swept shadow.”This is a simile because it compares Rabbi

Eliahou’s son leaving as a wind-swept shadow using the word “like”.

3) Symbolism

Page 119“From the depths of the mirror, a corpse

gazed back at me”The corpse Elie is looking at is himself. The

corpse doesn’t mean Elie is dead, it symbolizes internal death.

4) Metaphor

Page 100“This was the end – the end of the road.”This is a metaphor because it compares the

end of his life to the end of a road directly (one is the other).

5) Symbolism

Page: The front cover“Night”Night itself plays a big part in this book.

Night symbolizes torture and a world without god. Elie dropped his religion while in the concentration camps. He also went through a great deal of suffering.

6) Metaphor

Page 100“Was it not dangerous to all your vigilance to

fail, even for a moment, when at any moment death could pounce upon you.”

This is a metaphor because it compares death to a creature pouncing.

7) Simile

Page 101“We all threw blankets over our shoulders,

like prayer shawls.”This is a simile because it compares the Jews

with the blankets over their shoulders to prayer shawls using the word “like.”

8) Personification

Page 66“At about ten o’clock, the air-raid sirens

began to wail.”This gives a human characteristic to a siren

making it a personification.

9) Direct Characterization

Page 13(Talking about Moche the Beedle) “Physically

he was as awkward as a clown” This is direct characterization because it

describes a character said by another character

10) Verbal Irony

Page 105“I like to give charity….”This is verbal irony because without any

other details it sounds like a good deed. The thing is she was throwing out pocket change to entertain herself by watching the kids have a “death struggle” for the money.