Night Test Thursday

1. Night Test Thursday Read the “Foreword” by Francois Mauriac. Explain the allusion to “Lazarus”.

2. Do you know this vocabulary? • Empathy • Memoir • Personification • Simile • Metaphor • Aphorism • Apostrophe • Imagery • Hyperbole • Irony

3. What does the inscription at the entrance to Auschwitz say? What literary device is it an example of? • “Work makes you free” • Irony

4. How is animal imagery used to dehumanize the Jews? Give examples. • “A man appeared, crawling snakelike in the direction of the cauldron” (Wiesel 59). • “Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in wait for them” (Wiesel 59). • Idek was “throwing himself on me like a wild beast..” (Wiesel 53).

5. Explain how Mrs. Schachter’s vision of the fires while on the train car is an example of foreshadowing. • Later Mrs. Schachter’s visions proved to be true with the flames from the crematoriums.

6. Explain the literal and figurative symbolism behind the black flames that Eliezer claims have devoured his soul. • Literally, the black flame could represent the flames Eliezer saw when he entered the camp. Figuratively, the black flame can represent the evil of the Germans or the death of Eliezer’s faith.

7. Explain the significance of the hanging of the “sad-eyed angel.” • “I remember that on that evening, the soup tasted better than ever…” (Wiesel 63). • “That night, the soup tasted of corpses” (Wiesel 65). • The death of the sad-eyed angel is equivalent to the death of God for Eliezer. “Where is God?” (Wiesel 64).

8. How does Eliezer change from the beginning of the book to the end? • He changes emotionally from being a devout and religious young boy to one that completely loses faith in his God. • Physically, he changes from being a healthy young boy to that of a corpse.

9. Explain the significance of the hanging of the “sad-eyed angel.” How does it affect Eliezer? • Eliezer had seen many deaths in the concentration camps, but the hanging of a child was the breaking point for him when he lost all faith in God.

10. Identify the literary device used in the text below: • “But death hardly needed their help. The cold was conscientiously doing its work.” • Personification • “Heavy snow continued to fall over the corpses.” • Metaphor • “The road was endless.” • Hyperbole • “These human waves were rolling forward and would have crushed me like an ant.” • Simile and Metaphor

11. Identify the literary device used in the text below: • “…[A] glacial wind lashed us like a whip.” • Simile • “In no time, the camp had the look of an abandoned ship.” • Imagery • “A royal feast going to waste!” • Irony • “Two lambs with hundreds of wolves lying in wait for them.” • Imagery • “…my father…seemed to break in two like an old tree struck by lightning.” • Simile • “Jealousy devoured us, consumed us.” • Personification

12. Identify the literary device: • “Therefore, muster your strength and keep your faith.” • Tone • “It was a beautiful day in May. The fragrances of spring were in the air.” • Setting • “the black flames” • Symbolism • “…so many crazed men, so much shouting, so much brutality” • Repetition • “The dentist…had a face like a death mask…there was a horrible sight of yellow, decaying teeth. • Simile & Irony

13. “Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.” • Repetition; symbolism

14. Write a thematic message for each topic below. • Survival • Death • Faith • Relationships of Fathers and sons • Humanity • Night