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cestrela7 [59]
4 years ago
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Read this excerpt from "Hope, Despair, and Memory" by Elie Wiesel and answer the question. The survivors wanted to communicate e

verything to the living: the victim’s solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky. They needed to tell of the child who, in hiding with his mother, asked softly, very softly, "Can I cry now?" They needed to tell of the sick beggar who, in a sealed cattle-car, began to sing as an offering to his companions. And of the little girl who, hugging her grandmother, whispered: "Don’t be afraid, don’t be sorry to die … I’m not."
In the above excerpt Wiesel is using what main literary device?
a) parable
B)simile and metaphor
C)sensory details
D)foreshadowing
English
2 answers:
Leto [7]4 years ago
7 0
The answer you are looking for is C
Elenna [48]4 years ago
4 0

Answer:

C. Sensory details

Explanation:

The author uses sensory details to describe what the survivors wanted to communicate. He describes the words, actions, and attitudes of the people suffering including sick people, mothers and children who suffered in very touching events of <em>solitude and sorrow</em>. Also, reflecting the <em>sadness and fear</em>, and the <em>companionship</em> in spite of the cruel circumstances.

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