41. The quotation At first my father crouched under the blow, then he broke in two, like a dry tree struck by lightning, and collapsed uses a to do what

simile

Explanation:

Simile is a comparison between things of different kinds to make a description more intense. In "Night," the author Elie Wiesel makes use of simile to describe the severity of the beating his father receives and how his father fails to resist it. As Elie watches the scene, he feels that there is nothing he can do and becomes mad at his father.

By sailing across the oceans/the ice-bridge

Explanation:

the native americans walked across the ice bridge that connected asia and north america, while the colonists sailed across the ocean.