Irony: Night Chapter 1

Irony: Night Chapter 1

Multiple Choice

The audience knows something that the characters in the story does not

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

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Sarcasm. Saying one thing but meaning the opposite.

• Situational

• Verbal

• Dramatic

Multiple Choice

When the opposite happens of what is expected.

• Situational

• Verbal

• Dramatic

Multiple Choice

“The deportees were quickly forgotten. A few days after they left, it was rumored that they were in Galicia, working, and even that they were content with their fate” (Wiesel 6).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

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“But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things. Others flatly said that he had gone mad” (Wiesel 7).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

Multiple Choice

“Thereafter, life seemed normal once again. London Radio, which we listened to every evening, announced encouraging news...and so we, the Jews of Sighet, waited for better days that surely were soon to come” (Wiesel 7-8).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

Multiple Choice

“Yes, we even doubted his resolve to exterminate us. Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means? In the middle of the twentieth century!? (Wiesel 8).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

Multiple Choice

“And thus, my elders concerned themselves with all manner of things-- strategy, diplomacy, politics, and zionism [a movement for the re-establishment and protection of the Jewish nation] -- but not with their own fate” (Wiesel 8).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

Multiple Choice

“The news spread through Sighet like wildfire. Soon that was all people talked about. But not for long. Optimism soon revived: The Germans will not come this far. They will stay in Budapest” (Wiesel 9).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

Multiple Choice

“The Germans will not come this far. They will stay in Budapest. For Strategic reasons, for political reasons… In less than three days, German Army vehicles made their appearance on our streets” (Wiesel 9).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

Multiple Choice

“Still, or first impressions of the Germans were rather reassuring” (Wiesel 9).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

Multiple Choice

“Three days after he moved in, he brought Mrs. Kahn a box of chocolates. The optimists were jubilant: ‘Well? What did we tell you’” (Wiesel 10).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

Multiple Choice

“‘The yellow star? So what? It’s not lethal…’ (Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)” (Wiesel 11).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

Multiple Choice

“Little by little, life returned to ‘normal’. The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt it was not a bad thing” (Wiesel 11).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal

Multiple Choice

“People thought this was a good thing. We would no longer have to look at all those hostile faces, endure those hate-filled stares. No more fear. No more anguish. We would live among Jews, among brothers” (Wiesel 12).

• Situational

• Dramatic

• Verbal