The Outsiders
Greasers
The Outsiders
Socs
The Outsiders Quotes
Literary Terms
Plot Diagram
100

14 years old, He is smart and introspective

Ponyboy

100

The leader of the Socs and Cherry's boyfriend. Attacks Johnny and Ponyboy.

Bob

100

Who said, “Ponyboy, sometimes you just don’t use your head.”?

Darry

100

A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two dissimilar things that have qualities in common

Simile

100

the end of the story; the settling, the conclusion, the solving, the “untying.”

Resolution

200

16, a close friend to Ponyboy, and beloved by the entire gang. The greasers are his true family

Johnny

200

Bob's girlfriend. befriends Ponyboy early in the novel and helps him to see that Socs are people, too.

Cherry

200

Who said, “I‘ll bet you think the Socs have it made. The rich kids, the West­side Socs. I‘ll tell you something, Ponyboy, and it may come as a surprise. WE have troubles you‘ve never even heard of.”?

Cherry

200

The use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or effect

Hyperbole

200

EVERYTHING that occurs between Exposition and Climax; the bulk of the plot

Rising action

300

Sodapop's best friend. Works with Sodapop at the gas station and spends a lot of time at the Curtis home

Steve Randle

300

Cherry's best friend and Randy's girlfriend

Marcia

300

“We gotta get even with the Socs. For Johnny.”

Dally

300

When an inanimate object is given human qualities or abilities

Personification

300

all that is left to happen as a result of the climax; the end of the story is near

Falling action

400

Leader of the Shepard gang, a gang friendly to, but tougher than, the greasers.

Tim Shepard

400

Bob's best friend and Marcia's boyfriend. Becomes introspective, befriends Ponyboy, and works to end the violence between the Socs and greasers

Randy

400

Who said, “If you don’t have anything, you end up like Dallas...and I don’t mean dead either. I mean like he was before. And that’s worse than dead.”

Sodapop

400

When words are used to stimulate one or more of the five senses

Imagery

400

turning point in the novel, from which everything else that happens is “downhill;” a single incident

Climax

500

The oldest of the greaser gang. quick-witted and always telling jokes

Two-Bit

500

A former football friend of Darry's from high school, he's gone to college and fights Darry during the rumble

Paul Holden

500

“Greasers will still be Greasers and Socs will still be Socs.”

Randy

500

To call something to mind without discussing it explicitly – an indirect or passing reference.

Allusion

500

The reader learns about the main character, Ponyboy, and his gang, the Greasers. Ponyboy reveals the rivalry between his gang and the West Side gang, the Socs. The Socs are rich, while the Greasers live in poverty. The story is set in Tulsa, OK in the 1960’s

Exposition

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