Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2

"She couldn't have applied her make-up correctly that morning because the rims of her eyes were more red than usual, like his own after he'd been causing chaos and got into trouble and ended up crying" (Boyne 6). Why is this dramatic irony?

• Bruno doesn't know how make-up should be applied
• Gretel gave her new make-up that made the mother look silly
• The audience knows that the mother couldn't get makeup at Out-With
• The audience knows that the mother was actually crying

"Bruno's eyes opened wide and his mouth made the shape of an O" (Boyne 8). What literary device is best shown here?

• Repetition
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor

"When he closed his eyes, everything around him just felt empty and cold, as if he was in the loneliest palce in the world" (Boyne 11). What literary device is best described here?

• Repetition
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

"Sometimes he likes to stand in front of the stalls and close his eyes and breathe in their aromas, feeling his head grow dizzy with the mixed scents of sweetness and life" (Boyne 11). Which of the following scents are MAINLY described in this section?

• Smell and Touch
• Smell and sight
• Smell and taste
• Touch and sight

"[Gretel] was twelve years old and was considered to be one of the brightest girls in her class, so she squeezed her lips together and narrowed her eyes and forced her brain to understand what she was looking at" (Boyne 21). Which of the following character traits BEST describes Gretel in this passage?

• Logical
• Outgoing
• Careless
• Rude

'[The people] were all wearing the same clothes as each other: a pair of grey striped pyjamas with a grey striped cap on their heads" (Boyne 24). Which of the following BEST describes why this is dramatic irony?

• The audience knows that Bruno wishes he could wear pajamas all day
• The audience knows that they are wearing prison uniforms
• Gretel finds it ridiculous that Bruno keeps calling the uniforms striped pajamas
• Bruno later finds a way to wear pair of striped pajamas

"He hadn't heard father's booming voice anywhere and he hadn't heard the heavy sound of his boots on the floorboards downstairs" (Boyne 26). Which of the following senses is MOST shown in the passage?

• Touch
• Taste
• Sound
• Sight

"If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking" (Boyne 34). Which literary device does this passage describe?

• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

"The noise of a door slamming came from downstairs and reverberated through the house so loudly - like a gunshot - that Bruno jumped and Maria let out a small scream" (Boyne 36). What literary device is described here?

• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Personification

"Bruno had climbed up and down and up and down and up and down the trunk..." (Boyne 43). What literary device is described in this passage?

• Simile
• Repetition
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor