Show:
Theme
Literary Devices
What a Character
Setting
Potpourri
100
This is the genre of the novel--overall theme.
What is coming of age?
100
It makes you look like a fairy.
What is a simile?
100
He wears a pink shirt to the Headmaster's tea.
Who is Finny?
100
This world event is going on throughout the novel.
What is World War II?
100
This is the test that Gene fails because he and Finny go to the beach.
What is trigonometry?
200
This is why Gene tells Finny about the accident.
What is guilt?
200
We watch little lily-livered Lepellier not jump from the tree.
What is alliteration?
200
The crew manager who calls Gene maimed.
Who is Cliff Quackenbush?
200
The season and year that the story takes place--the beginning of the flashback.
What is the summer of 1942?
200
This is the game Finny invents.
What is blitzball?
300
This is the theme that Gene struggles with in regards to Finny.
What is jealousy or envy?
300
The wave hesitated, balanced there, and then hissed back toward the deep water, its tentacles not quite interested in me enough to drag me with it.
What is personification?
300
He goes skiing to find a beaver dam in chapter 7.
Who is Leper?
300
The state in which the story is set.
What is New Hampshire?
300
This is the school record that Finny breaks but does not want to tell anyone about it. Be specific.
What is the 100-yard freestyle?
400
This is why Gene puts on Finny's clothes.
What is the search for identity?
400
...branches and branches of branches, a world of branches with an infinity of leaves.
What is hyperbole?
400
He jokingly accuses Gene of trying to kill Finny.
Who is Brinker Hadley?
400
This where Gene lives.
What is Dixie (Georgia)?
400
This is the"Shortest War Poem Ever Written" that Brinker composes.
What is "The War Is a bore?"
500
This is the most important of Finny's commandments.
What is "you always win at sports?"
500
...and he seemed from a distance to be a scarecrow left over from the growing season.
What is a metaphor?
500
He is Gene's only competition for valedictorian.
Who is Chet Douglas?
500
This is river that Gene and Finny jump into.
What is the Devon River?
500
These are the two things the boys at the school do to help the war effort--ch. 7.
What is pick apples and clear snow from the railroad?