2. EXAMPLE 1
Foreshadowing pg.33- Madame Shachter was
screaming about a fire and no one believed her. It
was foreshadowing about was to come-the
concentration camps.
3. EXAMPLE 2
Allusion pg. 74- Elie references when Adam and
Eve were driven out of paradise when they ate the
forbidden fruit. He said “ When you were deceived
by Adam and Eve, you drove them out of paradise.”
4. EXAMPLE 3
Symbolism pg 90- Elie refers to the word nigh a lot.
Night refers to a dark time of day but also refers to
things that are mysterious and unknown. He said
“It seemed an even darker night was waiting for us
on the other side.”
5. EXAMPLE 4
Irony pg. 119- It was ironic because as soon as Elie
was free he became sick and hospitalized with food
poisoning and he almost died again. He said “I was
transferred to the hospital and spent two week
sbetween life and death.”
6. EXAMPLE 5
Personification pg. 118- Elie talks about hunger
tormenting him. Hunger can‟t torment someone.
He said „we were tormented with hunger.”
7. EXAMPLE 6
Simile pg. 17- Moche the Beadle is talking about be
a mad man and tears like drops of wax, flowed from
his eyes.
8. EXAMPLE 7
Metaphor pg. 72- “that night the soup taste of
corpses” it‟s a metaphor comparing soup to
corpses.
9. EXAMPLE 8
Hyperbole ph. 84- “the stones were so cold that if
we touched them it seemed as though our hands
would be glued to them.” it is hyperbole because he
is exaggerating how cold the stones are
10. EXAMPLE 9
Irony pg. 85- the doctor says ”Don‟t be afraid,
everything will be all right.” it is ironic because two
days after Elie‟s surgery they have to leave there
camp and he needed 2 weeks to rest it.
11. EXAMPLE 10
Simile pg 13- “Physically he was awkward as a
clown.” Elie is comparing moche the Beadle to a
being awkward looking like a clown.
