The Outsiders: Characters
Poetry
The Outsiders: Setting
Literary Devices
The Outsiders: Random
100

This character is the narrator of the novel.

Ponyboy

100

This is the repetition of sounds between two words.

Rhymes

100

Johnny and Ponyboy rescue children from this location

A church

100

This literary device is a direct comparison between two different things.

Metaphor

100

What happened to Ponyboy's parents?

They died in a car accident.

200

This character is considered to be "the gang's pet."

Johnny Cade

200

In this type of poem, the first letter of each new line spells out a word.

Acrostic 

200

Ponyboy is jumped while walking home from this location in the first chapter.

The Movie Theatre

200


A literary device that describes something by comparing it to something else with the words "like" or "as".





Simile

200

This is the author of The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton

300

Red-headed Soc who drives a red Sting Ray Corvette

Cherry Valance

300

This poem contains three lines and originates from Japan.

A Haiku poem

300

This is the location where Bob is killed

The park

300

This literary device uses human traits to describe non-human things.

Personification

300

This is the decade during which The Outsiders is set

The 1960s

400

His prize possession is a 10 inch switch blade

Two-Bit

400

This type of poetry does not use any rhyme scheme and usually follows the rhythm of natural speech.

Free verse

400

Ponyboy, Dally and Johnny meet Cherry and Marcia here.

a drive-in movie theatre.

400

This literary device is an exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally.

Hyperbole

400

This is the reason Johnny stabbed Bob

To save Ponyboy from being drowned in a fountain

500

He is considered to be the toughest member of the gang.

Dally

500

This poem is a five-line, usually humorous poem with the rhyme scheme AABBA.

A Limerick Poem

500

The name of the town that Johnny and Ponyboy ran away to. 

Windrixville

500

This literary device is a word or phrase that shows you the sound something makes.

Onomatopoeia

500

This is the name of SodaPop's horse.

Mickey Mouse

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