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Passage 1

The Diary of a Survivor
I can never forget the cold January morning of 1941. It had snowed endlessly for days in Bukovina, my hometown in Romania. You might not know about Bukovina because that name doesn't show anywhere in the map. When the Nazis wiped out the face of my city from the map, they had erased my home, too.
Although I was a Jewish boy who had seen his country and people come to ruin during the dawn of an ugly war, I was still just a young boy. I was not prepared for what was to come. That morning I had refused to eat the meager meal my mother had somehow managed to prepare. How I wish I hadn't stormed out of the house in protest! That night, I stayed over at my best friend's house. Sure, I had felt guilty about snapping at my mother seconds after I blurted out those angry words, but it wasn't safe to return home at night. I could have been found by the Gestapo if I had tried to sneak out.
I returned as soon as the sun was high in the sky, but there was nobody waiting for me at home. The doors were broken and the windows had been smashed. Nobody knew where my mother and father had been taken.

Passage 2
Quit India Movement

The British colonizers in India had a tough battle in the ripe hours of the World War II. The British needed cooperation from the country in the life or death struggle against the Holocaust. India, however, wanted an end to the long fight for independence and freedom.
Mohandas Gandhi and his supporters had made it clear that they would not support the war unless India was granted immediate independence. Gandhi had already called on all Congressmen and Indians to unite against their colonizers and to stand by nonviolence.
Some argued about the immorality of refusing to assist the British in the fight against Germany. Others thought that Gandhi's opposition to the British was insufficient. This was the time that gave birth to "Quit India," the most powerful movement in the history of India's struggle for independence. Soon, mass arrests and an unforeseen amount of violence shook the nation that was ready for "Do or Die" in the cause of freedom.

Grade 9 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.R.9, RI.9-10.9

What irony exists between the two passages?

One country gained independence, the other ceased to exist.
Gandhi stressed nonviolence, but the British fought in WWII.
The Gestapo in Bukovina was just like the British in India.
India chose to gain Independence while people were dying in other parts of the world.

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Figurative Language Question

Grade 9 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.R.9, RI.9-10.9