Literary Devices/Elements with Night by Elise Wiesel

Question 1

"The night seemed endless"

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Hyperbole

Question 2

"It was like a page torn from a book...dealing with the captivity in Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition."

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Allusion

Question 3

"We stood. We were counted. We sat down. We got up again. We waited impatiently."

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Repetition

Question 4

"Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked out into the void."

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Personification

Question 5

"The doors clanked shut."

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Onomatopoeia

Question 6

"That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains. They were the first faces of hell and death."

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Tone

Question 7

"The heat was oppressive. Sweat streamed from people's faces and bodies. Children were crying for water."

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Imagery

Question 8

"Who would have thought that we were so strong?"

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Rhetorical Question

Question 9

"The news spread through Sighet like wildfire."

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Similie

Question 10

"On the seventh day of Passover, the curtain finally rose: the Germans arrested the Jewish leaders."

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Idiom

Question 11

"...his face strange looking without a beard, a bundle on his back."

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Alliteration

Question 12

"The street resembled fairground deserted in haste."

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Metaphor

Questions 12