Dealing with the writer's own life.
What is AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL?
To be able to read and write.
What is LITERATE?
The mental characteristics or attitude of a person or group; or, the study thereof.
What is PSYCHOLOGY?
The act of giving to others, willingness to contribute.
What is GENEROSITY?
The narrator's name.
Who is PONYBOY CURTIS?
A group of sentences written about one topic.
What is a PARAGRAPH?
Using words in their most basic sense, free from exaggeration or embellishment.
The human soul, spirit, or mind.
What is PSYCHE?
What is GENERIC?
The names of our narrator's brothers.
Who are DARRY & SODA/SODAPOP?
Giving a realistic and vivid picture.
What is GRAPHIC?
Having or showing knowledge in a specific area.
What is LITERATE?
What is COMMEMORATE?
What is CONGENIAL?
This character comes from an abusive/neglectful home. He also got badly beaten up by the Socs.
Who is JOHNNY CADE?
To attribute something to.
What is ASCRIBE?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words close to each other.
What is ALLITERATION?
Originating in the distant past; very old.
What is IMMEMORIAL?
The origin or beginning of.
What is GENESIS?
This group is considered to be the upper-class who "get all the breaks."
Who are the SOCS?
Also acceptable; SOCIALS.
To forbid.
What is PROSCRIBE?
To remove from existence; to erase completely.
What is OBLITERATE?
An object that serves to remind one of a person or past event.
What is MEMENTO?
What is GENRE?
"He was tougher than the rest of us - tougher, colder, meaner. The shade of difference that separates a greaser from a hood wasn't present in [him]."
Who is DALLAS WINSTON?