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Memoir: a true account of one significant experience
Symbol: something concrete that represents something abstract
Dynamic character: a character who undergoes an important
inner change
Motif: a recurring idea, theme, or subject
External conflict: a character’s struggle with an opposing force
Internal conflict: a struggle within the mind of a character
Simile: a comparison using like or as
Metaphor: a comparison of two dissimilar things which does not
use "like" or "as"
Irony: referring to how a person, situation, statement, or
circumstance is not as it would actually seem.
Imagery: words and phrase that evoke the five senses
Theme: central idea of a literary work, an insight into life
Hyperbole: extreme exaggeration
Personification: giving human qualities to animals or objects.
On the handout, the definition and
one example have been provided for
you.
You must use your book, Night to
locate two other examples for each
literary device.
Write on your own paper.
Return this handout back to me.
Rewrite the definition
Memoir: a true account of one significant
event
Give an example
The genre of Night is a Memoir.
Example-The book Night is about one
significant experience in the author’s life—
the Holocaust.
Symbol: something concrete that represents something
abstract
1. “Night” symbolizes the absence of God
because to Elie God does not deliver them from
the Nazis thus making his life lonely and void of
his Best Friend.
2. The hanging of the young Pipel symbolizes
the death of God because when the young child
suffered unable to die because of his light
weight, Elie believed that God must be dead if
He would allow such an atrocity to take place.
the child to die swiftly.
External conflict: a character’ struggle
with an opposing force
The Jews are held captive by the Nazis.
Franek beats Elie’s father to manipulate
Elie in exchange for his gold dental crown.
Elie struggles to survive despite the cold,
meager food, and diseased barracks.
Internal conflict: struggle within the mind
of a character
Elie struggles with doubt about his
survival.
Elie questions God and struggles with his
faith that God is all-loving and allpowerful.
Simile: comparison using like or as
(Moshe the Beadle) “Physically he was as
awkward as a clown” (1).
(Madame Schachter) “…she looked like a
withered tree in a cornfield” (22).
“If anyone is missing, you’ll all be shot, like
dogs…” (22).
“The barracks we had been made to go into
was very long. In the roof were some bluetinged skylights. The antechamber of Hell
must look like this” (32).
Metaphor: direct comparison
“The world was a cattle wagon hermetically
sealed” (22).
“It was not the first time a false prophet had
foretold to us peace-on-earth…And we often
believed them. It was an injection of
morphine” (76).
“Suddenly his eyes would become blank,
nothing but two open wounds, two pits of
terror” (74).
Irony: referring to how a person, situation,
statement, or circumstance is not as it
would actually seem.
“Work is liberty” (38).
Sign hanging on wall: “Warning. Danger
of Death” (37).
“The yellow star? Oh, well, what of it? You
don’t die of it” (9).
“The SS gave us a fine New Year’s gift”
(66).
Imagery: Words and phrase
that evoke the five senses
Description of the leader of
the camp (read pg. 45).
The hanging of the youth from
Warsaw (read pg. 59).
Hyperbole: Extreme exaggeration
“Yes, man is very strong, greater
than God” (64).
“We were masters of nature,
masters of the world” (83).
Personification: giving human
qualities to animals or objects.
“Death wrapped itself around me
until I was stifled” (82).
“Around me everything was dancing
a dance of death” (84).
• Create literary term flashcards.
• Front side: Give literary term and
one example.
• Back side: Give the definition.
• Incorporate color and be neat and
creative.