2. 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.
3. 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”.
4. 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.
5. 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).
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.”
9. 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.
10. 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
11. 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.
