Figurative Language
Giving a nonhuman human characteristics
What is personification?
What is science fiction?
Where and when an event takes place in a story.
What is setting?
The main character and narrator of The Outsiders.
Who is Ponyboy?
The type of conflict where there is a struggle between a person or an outside force.
What is external conflict?
a direct comparison of two different things
What is metaphor?
Stories in this genre center on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a serious crime, generally a murder.
What is crime fiction?
The most intense or exciting high point of a story (sometimes called the turning point).
What is climax?
Johnny's last words to Ponyboy.
What is "Stay gold, Ponyboy"?
This is a sign or warning of what's going to happen next.
What is foreshadowing?
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
Genre of "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street"
What is science fiction?
The main events of a story/the storyline.
What is plot?
The reason Ponyboy and Johnny ran away to Windrixville.
What is to escape after murdering Bob?
When characters talk to each other out loud in a story or in a script.
What is dialogue?
a comparison between 2 unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
Genre of "All Summer In a Day"
What is science fiction?
A universal message/big idea of a story.
What is theme?
What is Dally had nothing left to live for after Johnny died?
(Text that looks like this in a script tells how a character should say or do something. It also can describe the scene.)
What are stage directions?
My eyelids begged to stay closed.
What is personification?
Genre of "Lamb to the Slaughter"
What is crime fiction?
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
Drives a red a Stingray Corvette, has long, red hair, and was a spy for the greasers.
Who is Cherry Valance?
A story about magical or imaginary beings and lands ("Cinderella" is an example).
What is a fairy tale?