Night Figurative Language

We were withered trees in the heart of the desert. This metaphor compares Elie and the prisoners to withered trees in the desert. This metaphor highlights that they were...

• lifeless, isolated from the rest of the world and alone in an environment that does not support life.

• dry and hot.

• in the scorching sun, shadows of their former selves and running for nothing.

• cold and fearful of the Kapos who are beating them.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

“I fought my way to the coffee cauldron like a wild beast.” What two items are being compared in this simile?

• The concentration camp and a wild jungle

• The wild beast and the cauldron

• The cauldron and Elie

• Elie and a wild beast

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"An even darker night was waiting..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Wiesel writes, Monday passed like a small summer cloud, like a dream in the first daylight hours."  What is the purpose of this simile?

• To demonstrate the fear that the Jews felt

• To help the reader get a better visual of the sky

• To show that time passed quickly

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does the narrator describe as bending "over like trees in a storm"?

• The electrified barbed wire

• The prisoners during the evening meal

• The lips of the prisoners repeating the benediction

• The Blockälteste and the Kapos

Answer explanation

The narrator describes the lips of the prisoners repeating the benediction as bending 'over like trees in a storm', highlighting the correct choice.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Wiesel calls the second ghetto "an open tomb."  This metaphor is used to foreshadow what theme?

• silence

• death

• suffering

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

“The shadows around me roused themselves from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction.”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“We were still trembling, and with every screech of the wheels, we felt the abyss opening beneath us.” What does this mean?

• The Jews stand upon an abyss, a literal pit beneath them.

• An abyss was not literally opening beneath the passengers, but instead this literary device acts as a metaphor to describe the lowered hope within the Jews as time passed.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things without  using  like and as

• Comparing two things in a text

• Comparing two unlike things using  like and as

• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"We were walking slowly, as one follows a hearse..."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4