Q. What figurative language does Elie Wiesel use?
metaphor
Q. What is an example of figurative language in the book night?
Personification: death is described as dancing. Personification: death is described as eating Elie like an animal. Hyperbole: snow will eventually end. Simile: Comparing Elie’s foot to a wheel that had fallen.
Q. What figurative language could be added to describe the night sky?
(personification) The sky misses the sun at night. (personification)
Q. What literary device does night use?
Elie Wiesel’s book, Night, uses similes, metaphors, irony, and symbolism to show how hateful and corrupt the Holocaust was with the hope that history will not repeat. Elie Wiesel uses similes and metaphors to give his reader a more vivid image of his situation.
Q. What literary device is Angel of Death?
hyperbole
Q. What is a metaphor in the book Night?
In the autobiography Night, metaphors, or comparisons of unlike things, are used to demonstrate the extent of the horror Elie Weisel faced at the hands of his Nazi captors. Seeing their town abandoned reminded Elie of an empty tomb, and his world became a smaller place that existed only in a locked cattle car.
Q. What page is they think I’m mad he whispered and tears like drops of wax flowed from his eyes on?
1_ Simile “They think I’m mad,” he whispered, and tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes. Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long. (p. 68) 25.
Q. What type of figurative language is the following they think I’m mad he whispered and tears like drops of wax flowed from his eyes 7?
Simile
Q. Is tears like drops of wax a simile?
‘They think I’m mad,’ he whispered, and tears, like drops of wax, flowed from his eyes. ‘ In this example of a simile, Eliezer compares Moishe’s copious stream of heavy tears to drops of wax.
Q. What does tears like drops of wax mean?
“‘They take me for a mad man,’ he would whisper, and tears like drops of wax flowed from his eyes.” (Ellie, Emma, Kaitlyn) Simile- This is a simile because Elie describes Moshe’s tears as thick and full like drops of wax dripping from a candle.
Q. What is the meaning behind crying?
Research has found that in addition to being self-soothing, shedding emotional tears releases oxytocin and endorphins. These chemicals make people feel good and may also ease both physical and emotional pain. In this way, crying can help reduce pain and promote a sense of well-being.
Q. What is tear cry?
1 : a drop of the salty liquid that moistens the eyes and the inner eyelids and that flows from the eyes when someone is crying. 2 tears plural : an act of crying I burst into tears. tear. verb.
Q. What is the opposite of personification?
Anthropomorphism refers to something nonhuman behaving as human, while personification gives particular human traits to nonhuman or abstract things, or represents a quality or concept in human form.
Q. What is Chremamorphism?
If personification is the technique of giving inanimate (things not alive) human characteristics, Chremamorphism is giving characteristics of an object to a person. For example: “she shined upon him with her eyes” gives qualities of an object, like a star, to a person.
