All the light we cannot see

Question 1

Don’t tell lies

Answer 1

“Don’t tell lies. Lie to yourself, Werner, but don’t lie to me.”

Contrast

Jutta

Question 2

Is it right?

Answer 2

“Is it right, … to do something only because everyone else is doing it?’

Rhetorical question

Jutta

Question 3

Eels

Answer 3

“Doubts: slipping in like eels. Werner shoves them back.”

omniscient narrator

Personification

Question 4

The true Aryan

Answer 4

“The true Aryan is as blond as Hitler, as slim as Göring, and as tall as Goebbels,”

Dramatic irony

Neuman one

Question 5

War is a bazaar

Answer 5

“War …is a bazaar where lives are traded”

Metaphor

Werner

Question 5

Queen bees

Answer 5

“Her Majesty, the Austrians call their cannon, and for the past week these men have tended to it the way worker bees might tend to a queen.”

Imagery (queen bee to nationalism)

Metaphor

Question 6

I want to be an engineer

Answer 6

“I want to be an engineer.”
“Your problem is that you still believe you own your life.”

contrast in tone

Fredrick

Question 7

amber beam

Answer 7

“A light emerges, a light not kindled, … an amber beam wandering the dust”

Motif, metaphor and visual imgery

Narrator

Question 8

open your eyes

Answer 8

“Open your eyes … and see what you can with them before they close forever.”

Contrast, metaphor and motif

Question 9

See obstacles

Answer 9

“See obstacles as opportunities, Reinhold. See obstacles as inspirations.”

Juxtaposition, repetition

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