Poetry and Prose

Which of the following is NOT a theme developed in Chapters 1-4 of Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night?

• Suffering can trigger a crisis of faith

• Humanity is capable of unspeakable cruelty

• Governments use censorship to exert control over people

Write a one-sentence theme statement focusing on the importance of family relationships as illustrated by chapters 1-4 of Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night.

Match the rhetorical device with it's definition

• Giving human traits to objects/animals

• Anaphora

• Use of repeated words to start phrases

• Personification

• A passing reference made by an author

• Metaphor

• Comparing unlike things using like or as

• Simile

• A comparison: one thing IS another thing

• Allusion

Choose the correct definition of the word "diction".

• A totalitarian leader

• Word choice

• A book of definitions

• Give orders to

What does "syntax" refer to?

• Causing things to occur at the same time

• The interaction of two things combining for greater effect

• The arrangement of words in phrases, sentences, or paragraphs

• A connection between nerve cells

​ Two forms of writing: Sort the characteristics

Groups:

(a) Poetry

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(b) Prose

• More topics

• Focused

• Shorter form

• Stricter adherance to grammar

• Sentences

• Paragraphs

• Line breaks

• Longer form

• Stanzas

• Rhyme

• Impressionistic

Choose a rhetorical device to fill in the blank.

"Womb cold as a frog in winter" is a ______."

Choose a rhetorical device to fill in the blank.

"The dandelion calls to me" is an example of _______________.

In Night, Eliezer says to God, "When you were displeased by Noah's generation, you brought down the Flood" (Wiesel 68). This is a Biblical ________ that the author expects the reader to understand.

"Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky" (Wiesel 34). This line contains which three of the following rhetorical devices?

• a metaphor

• anaphora

• personification

• imagery