1. 8 th grade English Literature Review

2. “All But My Life” Gerda was able to survive her imprisonment by Nazis by the memories of her family and her happy childhood home.

3. “All But My Life” One reason Gerda survived the Death March was because she obeyed her dad and wore ski boots on the day she was taken away.

4. “All But My Life” Gerda got her life back when she married the American soldier that liberated her from the Nazis. He was a German Jew whose parents had sent him to America.

5. The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is the source of the play.

6. The Diary of Anne Frank The play is set in Amsterdam, Holland, during World War II.

7. The Diary of Anne Frank Plays are divided into acts.

8. The Diary of Anne Frank  All Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing.  Their rations were cut when the suppliers of the ration books were arrested.

9. The Diary of Anne Frank  The Franks went into hiding to hide from the Nazis. They were in hiding for 25 months.  8 inhabitants were in the secret annex when they were arrested.

10. The Diary of Anne Frank  Mrs. Frank wants the Van Daans to leave because Mr. Van Daan was stealing food.  They thought a warehouse worker had blackmailed them.

11. The Diary of Anne Frank The sounds of a burglar downstairs ruins the Hanukkah celebration.

12. The Diary of Anne Frank  “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.”-Anne  “Aren’t they awful? Treating us as if we were still in the nursery.”-Anne

13. The Diary of Anne Frank  “We don’t need the Nazis to destroy us.“ –Otto Frank  “There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.” -Otto Frank

14. The Diary of Anne Frank  “In my day, it was the boys who called on the girls.” –Mrs. Van Daan  “He’s no father to you. That man!” –Mrs. Frank  “You must build your own character.” –Otto Frank

15. The Treasure of Lemon Brown  Greg is bored by his father’s talk of his childhood  He feels more capable of dealing with his father after spending time with Lemon.

16. The Treasure of Lemon Brown  Greg’s father thinks Greg isn’t trying hard enough to pass math  Greg goes into an abandoned building to escape his father and the rain.

17. The Treasure of Lemon Brown  Greg decides Lemon Brown is harmless  Lemon’s treasure includes newspaper clippings.

18. The Treasure of Lemon Brown  Lemon’s treasures are symbols of his life’s accomplishments  The theme of the story is about what “treasure” really is.

19. The Treasure of Lemon Brown  “His voice was high and brittle like dry twigs”: simile  “Howdy, Mr. Pain. See you back again.”: personification  New York City: setting

20. The Outsiders  Narrator of the novel is Ponyboy.  Members of Pony’s gang were Johnny, Dally, Steve, Darry, Soda, and Two-Bit.

21. The Outsiders  Ponyboy is polite, soft-spoken, smart, and sensitive.  Pony runs away when Darry slaps him.

22. The Outsiders Johnny and Ponyboy almost died when they rescued the children from the burning church.

23. The Outsiders  Cherry helps Pony realize that not all Socs and Greasers are alike.  “Things are rough all over.”-Cherry

24. The Outsiders  Pony reacts to Johnny’s death by pretending Johnny wasn’t dead.  By “Stay gold,” Johnny meant that Pony should stay sensitive and kind.

25. The Outsiders “Either way, there’s not going to be any blood feud between our outfit and Shepard’s. If we needed them tomorrow, they’d show.” -Two Bit

26. The Outsiders  “I didn’t think! That’s all I hear out of you! Can’t you think of anything?” –Darry  “I think I like it better when the old man’s hittin’ me. At least then I know he knows who I am.” –Johnny

27. The Outsiders  “You know what a greaser is? White trash with long hair.” -Bob  ”I mean, he loves you a lot. Savvy?” –Soda  “It ain’t fair that we have all the rough breaks!” - Pony

28. The Outsiders S.E. Hinton was 16 when she wrote The Outsiders.

29. Literary Elements Personification “The policemen’s guns spit fire into the night.” Idiom  “My friends would think I was off my rocker.”  “Sodapop kept them in stitches.”

30. Literary Elements Allusion  “He reminded me of Will Rogers.”  “I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman.” Simile  “He’s got eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue-green ice.”

31. Literary Elements Onomatopoeia “I could hear the blue Mustang’s vroom, vroom…” Alliteration “They walked slowly, silently, smiling.”

32. Literary Elements Theme “Things are rough all over.” Hyperbole “Glory, Two-Bit, scare us to death!”

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