eng spring exam
Calpurnia
- Caesar's wife
Soothsayer
- fortune teller (prophet)
Octavius
- general of an army - Caesar's friend and supporter - in Caesar's will to take his place
during Yom Kippur, why does Elie decide to avoid fasting
- his father urges him to ear - he wants to rebel against God
Casca
- rude (mocked common people) - big ego
Cicero
- senator
Cinna
- senator - delivered the letters
Cassius
- senator - has a plan to kill Caesar
Brutus
- senator - honorable man - everyone loves him
what happens to moist the beadle and the foreign jews in sighet
- they're hauled away in train cars - they are taken to Poland - they are forced to dig their own graves
as time passes, what happens to the jews of sighet
- theyre forced to wear yellows stars - theyre forced to live in ghettos
Murellus
- tribune - senator - took down decor - against Caesar
Flavius
- tribune - senator - took down decor - against Caesar
Casear
- well liked - potentially becoming king - one ruler of Rome from Triumvirate
Antony
- won the fertility race - loyal to Caesar
how many prisoners survived the train trip to buchenwald
12
where are Elie and his father sent to work
A warehouse where they count electrical parts
who comes to rescue the prisoners at the camp
Americans
When Rabbi Eliahou comes around looking for his son, why does Elie lie to him?
Elie doesn't want to admit that he saw eliahou's son abandon his weak father
who save Elie from being strangled by another prisoner
Elie's father and Meir Katz
how is Elie's father spared from a selection
He is able to move to the unselected side during a bit of confusion
how is Elie able to keep his gold crown
He lies and says that he is sick
what happens to Juliek
He plays one last tune on his violin before dying shortly after
What does Franek demand from Elie?
His gold crown
during what jewish celebration does Elie decide to not ask God for forgiveness
Rosh Hashanah
what lie does Elie tell his cousin stein
Stein's family is doing well
what tattoos do the prisoners receive
They are tattooed with an identification letter/number pattern
Who treats Elie nicely? After the war, he later sees this person on a train.
a French girl at his job place
when Elie looks at himself in the mirror what does he see staring back at him
a corpse
hyperbole
a deliberate, extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration
personification
a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics
what is the inheritance that Elie's father leaves his son
a knife and a spoon
what offer does Martha, the Wiesel's old servant, offer the family
a safe refuge back at her own home
wha is the "fine New Year's gift" that the SS give to the prisoners
a selection
exposition
author lays the ground work for the reader by revealing the setting and the relationships between the characters
what do several germans throw into cattle cars? prisoners begin fighting over what is thrown inside
bread
where does Elie go with his father after being in auschwitz
buna
metaphor
caparison of two unlike things not using like or as
what are the prisoners stunned to see as they leave the cattle cars
chimneys belonging to crematories
simile
comparing two things using like or as
imagery
consists of the words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses
Elie and the prisoners are witnesses to a young man being hanged. Afterwards, he describes the taste of the food that night. Elie says that the food tastes like...
death
conflict
describes the tension/struggle between opposing forces in a work of literature
what happens to the wiesel family when they arrive at birkenau
elie and his father are separated from tzipora and his mother
falling action
events that occur after the climax and lead to the resolution
what illness does Elie suffer from after being liberated
food poisoning
oxymoron
form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single, unusual expression
why isn't Elie sure about reciting the kaddish
he is losing faith in God
on their train trip to Germany, Elie saves his father when he is nearly thrown off the train. why was he nearly thrown out
he is mistaken for dead, by Elie wakes him up
how does moishe the beadle escape the gestapo
he plays dead
what does a prisoner tell the Wiesels
he tells Elie and Elie's dad to lie about their ages
why does Elie go to the hospital
his foot swells up
what does a German solider tell all those aboard the cattle car
if any of them escape, they will all be killed
What horrible thing does Elie witness a son, Meir, do to his father?
kill him over food
paradox
occurs when the elements of a statement contradict each other
denouement
resolution of the plot
flashback
scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event
plot
sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem
what does Madame schächter scream out continuously
she screams out the fear of the fire
where does Elie live with his family
sighet
what does a man try to unsuccessfully steal during an air raid
soup
motif
term that describes a pattern or strand of imagery or symbolism
what happen when the resistance movement takes action
the SS flee the camp
what does the head of the camp announce during a roll call
the camp will be liquidated
rising action
the events that happen in a work that build toward the climax
what does Moishe the beadle teach Elie
the teachings of Kabbalah
climax
the turning point of the story
symbolism
the use of any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself while standing for something larger than itself
the train finally arrives in auschwitz. at first, how are the prisoners told they will be treated
they are told they would be treated well
How do the prisoners appease their thirst while waiting for the train to arrive?
they aren't allowed to bend down to get snow, so they scrape it off of each others backs
how do people aboard the cattle car try to get madame schächter to quiet down
they beat her up and tie her up
by what means of transportation do the prisoners of buna evacuate the camp
they travel by foot
eventually, the germans invade Hungary and they enter sighet. how do the German soldiers first read the jewish residents of sighet
they treated them well
elie and his father decide to leave bunk when the germans evacuate the camp. what would have happened if they had remained at buna
they would have been liberated by the Russians
inciting incident
this interrupts the harmony and balance the story and brings conflict
during his remaining time at buccuhenwald, what is Elie's only desire
to eat
foreshadowing
use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action
figures of speech or figurative language
words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else