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ASSIGNMENT #1 Irony: The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. Metaphor: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Stereotype: a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Allusion: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. Personification: The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in a human form. Symbolism: The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

Examples: Stereotype: Everybody thinks that Rudy is crazy because he smears coal all over himself and says he is Jesse Owens. The Jews were a different story. Hitler said that they were different because of their religion and so they were not considered the master race.

Metaphor: The streets were ruptured veins. It probably had to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.

Personification: The second eye jumped awake and she caught me out. Curtains of rain were drawn around the car. Irony: Himmel is heaven in German and Himmel street was certainly no heaven. When Rudy (a German) gave the dying pilot (an American) a teddy bear for a sign of comfort. Mrs. M**
 * WOW! Great choices!**
 * Excellent examples!**
 * Good start, Mitch. You have the definitions; now finish the examples. If you need a book, you can get one from school. I'm here every day.

ASSIGNMENT #2

Internal Conflict: a conflict which involves a character struggling with himself/herself. For Liesel three examples of internal conflicts would be her habit of stealing things, her lack of literacy, and not being able to get over her nightmares. Stealing things started when she took from the graveyard //The Gravediggers Handbook.// It continued all throughout the story but she can never break her habit. Her lack of literacy also was with her in the start of the book. It went on with her until she was about 12 or 13 because with the help of Hans she started to break out of her disability. Her nightmares started when her brother died on the train. They ran throughout the story and never ended but she always felt better when Hans held her when she had awoken.

I can't think of a minor character with and internal conflict
 * Hans had internal conflicts. He didn't agree with his son about choosing to go along with the Nazis. It tormented him that he lost his son over that decision. Hans felt guilty that Max's father had saved his life; that's why he took Max into his home even though he could've gotten killed if the Nazis caught Max in Hans' home. Lastly, Hans worried about making enough money to support his family. He rolled cigarettes and played the accordion to try to make a little extra money on the side.

Some of the conflicts can be internal and external. When they affect the character in a way that they worry about it, it's between the character and him or herself. It can also manifest itself as a conflict with another person.**

External Conflict: A conflict involving a character and an outside force. For Liesel it is getting in a fight with Tommy Muller, stealing apples and potatoes from farmers, and dealing with Rosa's cooking. Liesel decided to beat Tommy up because he was making fun of her level of literacy and she was already a teenager. She also was in a conflict with one of the farmers because they were caught and had to make a quick escape. There were two ways of dealing with Rosa Hubermann's cooking. They are to either steal from farms to get something in your stomach, or shove a bowl of watered-down pea soup into your throat.

The external conflicts for Hans Hubermann are hiding a Jew, getting money for the family, and comforting Liesel. When Hans agreed to hide Max Vanderburg he was risking his own life as well because if they were caught Hans and his whole family would be killed. During the war was almost like a depression for Hans because they had little money, so he would walk around with his paint cart and go around painting things for money. Every night Hans would have to go into Liesel's room so that he could wake her up and make her feel safe from her nightmare.
 * Good job!**

ASSIGNMENT #3 Young People were indoctrinated into Nazism by teachers. They taught Nazi beliefs to the children so they could get accustomed to Nazi things. These organizations helped Hitler in his plan for a perfect world because he could either send them into the war when they got older or he could use them to keep on supporting him.

ASSIGNMENT #4 Bandwagon: a party that by its mass appeal or strength readily attracts many followers. This relates to The Book Theif because the Nazi Party is a bandwagon and all of Germany was awed by them. Scapegoat: a person or group made to bear the blame for others or to suffer in their place. This also relates to The Book Theif because the Jews were being killed because they were not part of, "The master race."
 * All of the Germans were 'jumping on the bandwagon' because if they didn't, they would be killed. Germans might have been 'awed' by the Nazis, but it was out of fear, not because they really admired them.**
 * The Jews were accused of creating all the things that were wrong with the Germany economy. Hitler got the Germans to believe that it was the Jew's fault; therefore, they were scapegoats. One religious groups cannot be responsible for an entire country's ills.**