Literary Terms
The Outsiders
The Giver
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Pearl
100
A comparison of two words using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
The protagonist in The Outsiders.
Who is Ponyboy?
100
The job Jonas is given.
What is the Receiver of Memories?
100
The two lovers whose marriage is forbidden by Egeus.
Who are Lysander and Hermia?
100
The type of boat Kino owns.
What is a canoe?
200
Using human characteristics to describe non-humans.
What is personification?
200
The two rival groups of young people who are constantly fighting.
Who are the Greasers and the Soc's?
200
The age at which children in the community enter their job training.
What is Twelve?
200
King and Queen of the Fairies.
Who are Titania and Oberon?
200
The name of the town in which The Pearl is set.
What is La Paz?
300
Information the reader can INFER about a character based on things that character does, says, or thinks.
What is indirect characterization?
300
The protagonist's two brothers.
Who are Sodapop and Darry?
300
The transmitted memory that first teaches the protagonist the feeling of pain.
What is the memory of crashing a sled at the bottom of a hill?
300
The Duke of Athens and his bride-to-be.
Who are Theseus and Hippolyta?
300
The city in which the doctor fondly remembers living years ago.
What is Paris?
400
Exaggerated language, used figuratively
What is hyperbole?
400
The three characters who die in The Outsiders.
Who are Bob, Johnny, and Dally?
400
The name the people use for places outside their community.
What is Elsewhere?
400
The play the Mechanicals present at the wedding.
What is "Pyramus and Thisbe?"
400
The highest offer the protagonist receives for his pearl from the pearl buyers.
What is 1500 pesos?
500
A reference in a piece of literature to another piece of literature.
What is allusion?
500
The setting of The Outsiders.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
500
The protagonist and the baby, Gabriel, have these two traits in common.
What are pale eyes and the ability "to see beyond?"
500
The character who says, "What fools these mortals be!"
Who is Robin Goodfellow (Puck)?
500
At least four of the different "songs" the protagonist hears throughout The Pearl.
What are the song of the family, of evil, of the enemy, of the undersea, of the pearl that might be, and of the pearl?
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