Character Roles
A character who contrasts with another character, typically the protagonist, to highlight
their qualities.
What is a Foil?
Name this literary device:
An object, person, place, or action that represents something else, often an abstract idea or concept, beyond its literal meaning.
What is a symbol?
A warning or indication of a future event.
What is foreshadowing?
When a character grows throughout the entire story.
What is character development?
Name the unreliable narrator in A Separate Peace.
Who is Gene?
A character who talks to the reader, taking them through the story.
What is a Narrator?
Name this literary device: Using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for a humorous or effect.
What is irony?
What genre is A Separate Peace?
What is coming-of-age?
Gene's internal conflict.
What is jealousy towards Finny?
A narrator that tells the story using pronouns like "I" or "we" to describe their experiences and thoughts.
What is a first person narrator?
Gene is an example of this character in A Separate Peace.
This is an example of what literary device?
"Initially it was totally white and stainless, as pure as the shores of Eden. Phineas, still asleep on his dune, made me think of Lazarus, brought back to life by the touch of God," (Knowles, 22)
What is an allusion?
The spoken words between characters in a story, used to reveal character traits,
advance the plot, and provide conflict.
What is dialogue?
In the book, Finny is described as athletic, charming and a troublemaker--What Literary device would this be?
What is characterization?
The narrator that exists outside the events of the story and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they.
What is a third person narrator?
Name an example of an Antagonist in A Separate Peace.
What is Quackenbush, the war, Brinker, etc.
Name 3 symbols in A Separate Peace.
What is Blitzball, the tree, Finny's broken leg, the changing weather, the Olympics, etc?
What narrative structure is this an example of? When the food critic in Ratatouille eats the ratatouille and it makes him think of his mother's food.
What is a flashback?
What kind of conflict is this?
Gene punching Quackenbush.
Name the unreliable narrator in The Emperor's New Groove.
What is Emperor Kuzco?
Voldemort is an example of this character role.
Name 3 theme topics from A Separate Peace.
What is loss-of-innocence, friendship, identity, war?
What triggers the initial flashback in A Separate Peace?
What is the tree over the river and the flight of marble stairs?
What narrative type is this: "When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."