The term for "separateness" in South African history from 1948-1994.
What is apartheid?
100
Author of "A Separate Peace."
Who is John Knowles?
100
A dozen of these appear in the Hero's Journey.
What are "stages"?
100
The three "categories" of archetypes.
What are situational, character, and symbolic?
100
A term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area.
What is Colloquial?
200
To portray people, events, and landscapes as they really were.
What is verisimilitude?
200
This German-sounding word also means "coming of age."
What is bildungsroman?
200
This signifies that the Hero has finally committed to the journey.
What is "crossing the threshold"?
200
Young heros or heroines who must go through some training and ceremony before undertaking their quest.
Who are the Initiates?
200
"If you take his parking place, you can expect World War II all over again."
What is allusion?
300
The three main themes of Cry.
What are
Fear
Race & Racism
Nature & Its Meaning
300
Finny's character type in the novel, highlighting the characteristics of Gene.
What is foil?
300
The central life-or-death crisis, during which the hero faces his greatest fear, confronts his most difficult challenge, and experiences "death." His journey teeters on the brink of failure.
What is "the ordeal"?
300
Symbolic of fruition, abundance and fertility, this character traditionally offers spiritual and emotional nourishment to those with whom she comes in contact.
Who is the Earth Mother?
300
Both writings in praise of a dead person. One laments, while the other praises.
What are elegy and eulogy?
400
a passage that is not part of the narrative and does not
involve the main characters. Usually used to make a thematic point, or to describe a scene that is apart from the action.
What are inserted or "intercalary" chapters?
400
A theme of the novel.
What is
coming-of-age and loss-of-innocence
identity and self-realization
the ubiquity of human cruelty
conformity and non-conformity; tradition and change.
400
Where the audience gets to know the hero and relate to him, where the audience identifies the hero's drives, urges, and problems.
What is "the ordinary world"?
400
Gateway to a new world which the hero must enter to change and grow.
What is the Threshold?
400
In drama and fiction, facts or situations are known to the reader or audience but not to the characters.
What is dramatic irony?
500
These two represent the consequences of inequality in South Africa.
Who are Absalom and Arthur?
500
A symbol in this novel.
What is
Fall from innocence
Etc.
500
The first look at the Special World, where the hero finds out who can be trusted.
What is "tests, allies, enemies"?
500
The most common of all situational archetypes.
What is death and rebirth?
500
"Jim stole the last of the bread, and with it, my heart."