3. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? Look at Wiesel's use of the word "vanishing" in the third paragraph. What sort of connotation does vanishing have (as opposed to the more straightforward ending or ending)? How does the word support Wiesel's purpose or ideas? The word disappearance is more like when someone is taken away unintentionally, you could simply say forced. I think this word helps by letting us know more specifically that everything he experienced and what happened to him was forced and not by will, so he suffered a lot psychologically. but with the death of their relatives. 4. What is the difference between a.. Look at Wiesel's use of the word "abandoned" in the seventh paragraph. What sort of connotation does abandoned have (as opposed to the more straightforward left behind or moved on without)? How does its use support Wiesel's purpose or ideas? I feel the word abandoned makes us understand that he felt alone. I imagine this process that he went through was very hard for him physically and …show more content…
How does it support Wiesel's main ideas about indifference? I think he used it in a metaphorical way, since in that war he also saw people who were good, but it was not always an option for them to do the right thing. 6. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? When he speaks of his time in the camps hoping for rescue, Wiesel writes, "If they knew, we thought, surely those leaders would have moved heaven and earth to intervene." What kind of figurative language is this (metaphor, personification, hyperbole)? How does it support Wiesel's main ideas about indifference? He speaks in a hyperbole manner. He wishes the leaders could help them, and he believes they would help them if they knew what they were thinking. From what I saw, he was already feeling very desperate under those circumstances. 7. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? Using the examples of word connotation and figurative language from the speech, explain how Wiesel's language choices contribute to the increasingly harsh, accusatory tone as the speech