In the novel Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, the author uses several literary devices to contribute to both the major and minor themes of the memoir. Such literary devices are similar to Night, another memoir by Elie Wiesel. Both novels are set in the years of World War Two in middle-eastern countries during the Holocaust. The authors of the two novels, Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel, were close in age but their experiences with the Holocaust differ greatly. Anne's and Elie's use of descriptive language and other such devices heighten the effect that their publications have on its readers.

Anne is a young girl living in Amsterdam who is forced to hide with her family and another family from the Nazi regime. Anne is considered lucky since she escaped the concentration camps while several of her friends were deported. Hanneli was one of Anne's friends...