Figurative Language
Stories and Poems We Read This Year
Elements of a Story
The Outsiders
Random
100

Giving a nonhuman human characteristics

What is personification?

100
"So Dawn goes down to day

Nothing ______ can stay."


What is gold?

100

Where and when an event takes place in a story.

What is setting?

100

The main character and narrator of The Outsiders.

Who is Ponyboy?

100

The type of conflict where there is a struggle between a person or an outside force.

What is external conflict?

200

a direct comparison of two different things

What is metaphor?

200

The Highwayman and this guy both loved Bess in the poem "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes.

Who is Tim the ostler?

200

The most intense or exciting high point of a story (sometimes called the turning point).

What is climax?

200

Johnny's last words to Ponyboy.

What is "Stay gold, Ponyboy"?

200

This is a sign or warning of what's going to happen next.

What is foreshadowing?

300

extreme exaggeration

What is hyperbole?

300

The name of the bird in "Papa's Parrot" that said, “Miss him! Miss him! Where’s Harry? You stupid bird!” 

What is Rocky?

300

The main events of a story/the storyline.

What is plot?

300

The reason Ponyboy and Johnny ran away to Windrixville.

What is to escape after murdering Bob?

300

When characters talk to each other out loud in a story or in a script.

What is dialogue?

400

a comparison between 2 unlike things using "like" or "as"

What is simile?

400

The girl from Earth who was locked in a closet when the sun finally came out on Venus in "All Summer In a Day."

Who is Margot?

400

A universal message/big idea of a story.

What is theme?

400
The reason Dally got himself shot by the police on purpose. 

What is Dally had nothing left to live for after Johnny died?

400

(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?

500

My eyelids begged to stay closed.

What is personification?

500

The god who stole Persephone and took her down into the underworld.

Who is Hades/Pluto?

500

The perspective from which the story is told.

What is point of view?

500

Drives a red a Stingray Corvette, has long, red hair, and was a spy for the greasers.

Who is Cherry Valance?

500

A story about magical or imaginary beings and lands ("Cinderella" is an example).

What is a fairy tale?

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