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*Rhetorical Devices*
10 rhetorical devices of "Night"
| Rhetorical Device | Explanation |
|---|---|
| (Page 15) "Moche' the Beadle would draw me with him into eternity, into that time where question and answer would become one." | *This is a METAPHOR* Moche's teachings are helping Elie learn about the deeper meaning of faith in the Jewish God. |
| (Page 17) "They take me for a madman," he would whisper, and tears like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes." | *This is a SIMILE* When Elie compares Moches' tears to wax, it is showing that Moche' is giving up. |
| (Page 20) "The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don't die of it.." (Poor Father! Of what then did you die?) | *This is FORESHADOWING* Here, Elie foreshadows the death of his father. |
| (Page 34) "Look! Look at it! Fire! A terrible fire! Mercy! Oh, that fire!" | *This is FORESHADOWING* Madame Schachter is trying to warn the other Jews on the train about the crematory. This is foreshadowing of the fire inside of the crematory. |
| (Page 72) "That night the soup tasted of corpses." | *This is a METAPHOR* This metaphor is meant to show the pain and disturbance Elie felt that night, because the hanging of the young pipel. |
| (Page 74) “When you were deceived by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of Paradise.” | *This is an ALLUSION* This quote is an allusion because it refers to the biblical story of Adam and Eve. It shows God's resentment and unforgiving nature, in Elie's perspective. |
| (Page 83) "...; we were crushed with work." | *This is PERSONIFICATION* Elie is saying that they worked so hard it was crushing him. It is personification because work cannot literally crush you. |
| (Page 94) "The snow was like a carpet, very gentle, very warm." | *This is a SIMILE* This is a simile because it is showing comparison between carpet and snow. It is showing the comfort Elie felt when he was laying on the snow. |
| (Page 111) “I can’t forget the light of thankfulness in his eyes while he gulped it down- an animal gratitude.” | *This is a METAPHOR* This is a metaphor because he is comparing his father trying to survive in the concentration camp, to an animal trying to survive in the wilderness. |
| (Page 119) "The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.) | *This is IMAGERY* This is Elie showing that he will never be able to forget the image of himself in the mirror, and also he will never be able to "un-see" the things he saw at Auschwitz |
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