Roles
A character who contrasts with another character, typically the protagonist, to highlight
their qualities.
What is a foil?
The spoken words between characters in a story, used to reveal character traits,
advance the plot, and provide conflict.
What is dialogue?
A contrast between appearance and reality, or what is expected versus what occurs.
What is irony?
The process by which a character grows and changes over the course of the story.
What is character development?
A narrative perspective where the story is told from the viewpoint of a character using "I" or "we," providing a personal perspective.
What is first person narrator?
Gene is an example of this character in A Separate Peace.
What is a narrator?
When getting lectured by Mr. Ludsbury, Gene thinks of the beach trip with Finny.
What is Gene's flashback about game nights with Finny?
Friendship, jealousy, war, and identity in A Seperate Peace.
What is a theme?
When gene is angry at himself and feels like a bad person for making Finny fall out of the tree.
What is internal conflict?
A narrator who knows how all the characters feel, like in Pride Prejudice.
What is an omniscient narrator?
Conquest from Invincible.
What is an antagonist?
The genre of A Seperate Piece.
What is coming-of-age?
Amelia Shepherd having a brain tumor in Grey's Anatomy.
What is an example of irony?
Gene getting interrogated.
Kuzco from Emperor's New Groove.
What is an unreliable narrator?
What are two examples of antagonists in Seperate Peace?
The triggers for the initial flashback in "A Separate Peace."
What is the tree and flight of marble stairs?
Snow represents the kids moving from carefree fun to shifting into labor as they would at a young age going into war.
What is symbolism?
Gene attacking Quackenbush.
What is external conflict?
A narrative perspective where the narrator is not a character in the story, but an outside observer who uses "he," "she," or "they."
What is a third person narrator?
"Go to Hell Forrester. Who the hell are you anyway?"
What is an antagonist?
"Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence."
What is foreshadowing?
"...a loud phonograph a long way off payed Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, rejected that and played They're Either Too Young or Too Old, grew more ambitious with The Warsaw Concerto, mellower with the Nutcracker Suite, and the stopped."
What is an allusion?
"I was Phineas, Phineas to the life. I even had his humorous expression in my face, his sharp optimistic awareness"
What is characterization?
"Unbelievable that there were other trees which looked like it here. It had loomed in my memory as a huge lone spike dominating the riverbank, forbidding as an artillery piece, high as the beanstalk. Yet here was a scattered grove of trees, none of them of any particular grandeur."
What is Gene being an unreliable narrator?