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A Separate Peace
by
John Knowles
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A Separate Peace Questions and Answers
What does the last line of the novel A Separate Peace mean?
In a Separate Peace, the narrator states, "Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even death by violence." What does the quote mean by love and violence? A Separte Peace
In A Separate Peace, what are five examples of how weather conditions create a mood?
What is the significance of the title A Separate Peace by John Knowles?
Explain the rhetorical devices the author uses to convey is support for the boys or Mr. Hadley's side about serving in the war. This question is for Chapter 13 pages 190-193 I was advised to use LIDDS I know that he supports the boys, but i dont know why or how to show it.
List the five most significant events of A Separate Peace.
What would be a good thesis statement and supporting details for A Separate Peace? i need 3 metaphors 3 similes and 3 devices of my choosing, but the last three cannot be similes or metaphors,since they are being used in the first two, but can be for example: imagery, symbolism, or anything else. can someone give me a good thesis and some devices to support the thesis? this essay is crucial but i cant seem to find any even though the book is essentially literary device heaven....
Metaphors And Similes In A Separate Peace
In A Separate Peace, how would you describe Gene and Finny's relationship? Reflect on themes of friendship, human nature, and the realizations that Gene comes to in the story.
Finny tells Gene that "when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love." Gene doesn't think this is true. Analyze this conversation and their differing views. Ch 8
What are three examples of irony in A Separate Peace by John Knowles?
What details does the author use to show the ways in which war is changing the atmosphere at Devon in A Separate Peace? Chapters 6-10
In what ways is Devon a microcosm in A Separate Peace?
What quotes show that Gene in A Separate Peace is competitive, insecure, or jealous?
What is an example of imagery given in chapters 5 and 6 of A Separate Peace?
What are some literary devices used in chapter 3 of A Separate Peace?
In A Separate Peace, why does Gene go along with Finny's disbelief in the war?
What is the real meaning of the saying "a separate peace"?
What is a quote that shows that Gene Forrester is intelligent and another that shows he is insecure in A Separate Peace?
What are 3 ways Gene and Phineas are alike and 3 ways they are different in A Separate Peace?
What is an example of dramatic irony and verbal irony from "A Separate Peace"?
Why does Phineas decide to wear his pink shirt in A Separate Peace?
In A Separate Peace, why is Saturday "battleship gray"?
In A Separate Peace, what does the tree represent?
What are 5 quotes that use figurative language in A Separate Peace?
When does the reader become aware of the narrator's name in A Separate Peace? Why do you think this information was withheld until now?
What literary terms are used in the following excerpt from A Separate Peace? So the war swept over like a wave at the seashore, gathering power and size as it bore on us, overwhelming in its rush, seemingly inescapable, and then at the last moment eluded by a word from Phineas; I had simply ducked, that was all, and the wave's concentrated power had hurtled harmlessly overhead, no doubt throwing others roughly up on the beach, but leaving me peaceably treading water as before. I did not stop to think that one wave is inevitably followed by another even larger and more powerful, when the tide is coming in. This is a paragraph that I have to use to answer the questions. It is found in chapter 8.
In A Separate Peace, Gene says there was always something "deadly" in the things he loved. What is he acknowledging about himself?
Why does Gene say: “It’s time to come in out of the rain”?
At the end of A Separate Peace, Gene refers to defeating an enemy before he ever put on his uniform. Who or what is the enemy he is referring to?
What is the significance of the closing scene in A Separate Peace by John Knowles?
In A Separate Peace, what effect does the war have on Devon?
In A Separate Peace, what does Gene have taped above his bed?
What is the importance of the Butt Room scene?
What was Knowles purpose in writing A Separate Peace?
Why is it surprising that Leper is the first Devon boy to enlist, and how is he different from the other boys who talk of enlisting?
Where is the significant quote in A Separate Peace that says "Wars are made instead by something evil in the human heart"?
Discuss an example of the "Loss Of Innocence" theme in John Knowles's A Separate Peace.
In A Separate Peace, what is the significance of sports, and what is the point of including blitzball?
In A Separate Peace, what lesson is Knowles trying to teach the reader?
How is fear used in A Separate Peace?
What are some of Finny's rules (the ones implied as well as stated) in A Separate Peace?
In A Separate Peace, describe the dramatic setting and tell what it symbolizes. Specifically, Knowles uses the first building, its marble staircase, and the assembly room as a dramatic setting.
What is the significance of the marble staircase in A Separate Peace by John Knowles?
In A Separate Peace, how do Gene and Finny act as a foil to each other?
What is the symbolism of Finny's fall as it relates to sin and redemption in A Separate Peace by John Knowles?
What does the First Academy Building symbolize?
Why doesn't Gene respond to Finny's affirmation of their friendship at the end of chapter 3?
In A Separate Peace, how and why does Finny's second accident occur?
In A Separate Peace, why does Gene feel that Finny's funeral is his own?