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**Part I: //Night// by Elie Wiesel**
1. What word means the systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group ? ** Genocide **


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**Directions: Identify the following literary devices.**
====58 . “Here came the Rabbi…His mere presence among the deportees added a touch of unreality to the scene. It was like page torn from some storybook, from some historical novel about the captivity of Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition.” **Simile**====

====60. “We were already accustomed to rumors of this kind [that told the front was drawing nearer to the camp ]. It was not the first time a false prophet had foretold to us peace-on-earth …And we often believed them. It was an injection of morphine.” **Metaphor**====

====62. “When at last a gray glimmer of light appeared on the horizon, it revealed a tangle of human shapes, heads sunk upon shoulders, crouched, piled one on top of the other, like a field of dust-covered tombstones in the first light of dawn .” **Simile**====

====66. “The street resembled fairgrounds deserted in haste. There was a little of everything: suitcases, briefcases, bags, knives, dishes, banknotes, papers, faded portraits. All the things one planned to take along and finally left behind. They had ceased to matter.” **Metaphor**====

====67. “ Open rooms everywhere. Gaping doors and windows looked into the void. It all belonged to everyone since it no longer belonged to anyone. It was there for the taking. An open tomb. A summer sun.” **Metaphor**====

====71. “The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.” **Metaphor**====

====77. When Romeo interferes in the fight between Tybalt and Mercutio, **Tybalt, under Romeo's arm, and stabs Mercutio**====

====78. When Mercutio says, "A plague on both your houses," **he has just been stabbed by Tybalt and is about to die**====

====89. Arriving to inspect the corpses of Paris, Romeo , and Juliet , the Montagues and Capulets realize too late **the foolishness of their bitter quarrel**====