Literary Devices

"Where is God now?' . . .. Where is He? ...hanging here on the gallows...Wiesel 62).

Never shall I forget that night . . . never shall I forget that smoke . . .

Sighet, Transylvania. Buna. Gleiwitz. Auschwitz/Birkenau. Buchenwald.

Moishe warns everyone about the Nazis and their plan, but no one believes him.

"Work is Liberty-" in the words of Hitler

contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens

attitude writer takes towards a subject

The bitter, rotten fruit, swelled sickeningly in the heat, oozing a gruesome, pulpy puss.

style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.

"From the first hours of dawn, a glacial wind lashed us like a whip" (77).

used in speech and writing as a device to bring attention to an idea.

feeling or atmosphere a writer creates for the reader

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