Name______________________________
Night Worksheet #1– Literary Terms
DETERMINATION: Is Madam Schachter as madwomen, a prophet or a witness?
(Chapter 2)
How does Elie Wiesel use literary terms such as metaphor, irony, simile, and
foreshadowing in his book Night to show how the Jews of Sighet were terrorized by
the Nazis?
Write the correct literary term in the blank for each quote. Underline the context clue.
1.________________________ The Hungarian lieutenant went among us with a
basket and collected the last possessions from those
who no longer wished to taste the bitterness of terror.
2. ________________________ The world was a cattle wagon hermetically sealed.
3. ________________________ Standing in the middle of the wagon, in the pale light
from the windows, she looked like a withered tree
in a corn field.
4. ________________________ “Jews, listen to me. I have seen fire! There are huge
flames! It is a furnace!"
5. ________________________ Our terror was about to burst the sides of the train.
6. ________________________ They struck her several times on the head--blows that
might have killed her.
7. ________________________ The heat, the thirst, the pestilential stench, the
suffocating lack of air--these were as nothing
compared with these screams which tore us to
shreds. A few more and we should all have started
to scream.
8. _______________________
And as the train stopped, we saw this time that flames
were gushing out of a tall chimney into the black sky.
Madam Schachter was silent herself. Once more she had become dumb, indifferent,
absent and had gone back to her corner.
Night Worksheet #2 – Literary Terms
DETERMINATION: How does Elie Wiesel use literary terms such as symbol,
metaphor, irony, simile, and imagery, in his book Night to show how the Jews of
Sighet were being stripped of their humanity and identity and how Elie lost his belief in
God? (Chapter 3)
Write the correct literary term in the blank for each quote. Underline the context clue.
1.______________________
The cherished objects we have brought with us thus
far were left behind in the train, and with them, at last,
our illusions.
2. _____________________
"You must never lose faith, even when the sword
hangs over your head. That's the teaching of our
sages. . . .".
3. ______________________
Babies! Yes, I saw it with my own eyes. . . . Those
children in the flames. (Is it surprising that I could not
sleep after that/ Sleep had fled from my eyes.)
4. ______________________
But I told him that I didn't believe that they could burn
people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate
it. . . . .
5. ______________________
I do not know if it has ever happened before in the
long history of the Jews, that people have ever recited
the prayer for the dead for themselves.
6. ______________________
We marched slowly on, as though following a hears at
our own funeral. . . . .There it was now in front of us,
the pit and its flames.
7. ______________________
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp,
which has turned my life into one long night.. . . .
Never shall I forget the faces of the little children
whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke
beneath a silent blue sky.
8._______________________
Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my
faith forever.
9. _______________________
Never shall I forget those moments which murdered
my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust.