Vocabulary
a terrible or difficult situation
What is plight?
a twisted face showing pain or disgust
What is grimace?
anxious or fearful about the future
What is apprehensive?
the beginning, middle, and end of important events. The story itself.
What is plot?
person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
expresses strong emotions. Followed by an exclamation point or a comma depending on the strength of emotion. Examples: Wow!, Yuck!, Yes!, Holy cow!
What is an interjection?
a group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
Where does the family go to seek protection from the hurricane?
What is a church?
What type of writing is The Raven?
A poem.
What does Ponyboy think separates the greasers and the socs?
How they feel, show, and handle their emotions.
to live in a place
What is reside?
important or deserving attention
What is noteworthy?
an award, honor, or praise
What is an accolade?
where and when the story takes place.
What is setting?
tells us more about a noun. Describes the noun. Examples: green, slow, five, stinky, tall, round.
What is an adjective?
a word that sounds like the sound it describes. (Pop!, meow, oink.)
What is an onomatopoeia?
the amount of syllables in a line of poetry
What is meter?
What is one internal conflict of the story?
Gustus feels that his father does not understand his needs.
What is the narrator's mood at the beginning of the poem?
Amused and curious about the mysterious tapping.
What is the main theme of the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," which Ponyboy recites to Johnny?
that all things precious inevitably fade, change, and are lost over time, much like spring's golden first leaves or a sunset.
rough, noisy, and energetic
What is boisterous?
a threat or danger
What is menace?
big point or most important idea of the story or article.
What is the central or main idea?
the main character in a literary work.
What is a protagonist?
replaces a noun. Examples: I, he, she, they, it, his.
What is a pronoun?
the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning (usually consonants) of two or more neighboring words or syllables.
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
What is one external conflict of the story?
Gustus and the rest of his community must brave a hurricane.
When still rational, what does the narrator assume the Raven's repeated use of the word "Nevermore" is a result of?
The bird having been taught the word by "an unhappy master" who suffered disaster.
Ponyboy says that Socs "were always behind a wall of aloofness." What does he mean?
That the socs don't feel or care about anything.
a person who boasts or shows off
What is braggart?
dull and cheerless; lacking color or interest
What is drab?
a message or life lesson from the story.
What is theme?
a character or force in conflict with the main character.
What is an antagonist?
words we use before nouns or pronouns to show their relationship with other words in the sentence. Example: behind (the tree), across (Maple Street)
What is a preposition?
a comparison between two unlike things; usually describing one thing being another (The city was an ocean of lights.
What is a metaphor?
a change in the mood, emotions, thoughts, structure, or content in a poem
What is a shift?
Why is protecting the banana tree important to Gustus?
It is the only means through which he can make money, which he desperately needs to buy shoes.
Which of the following contains alliteration:
1. "Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—"
2. "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,"
3. "Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered—"
4. "On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,"
2. "While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,"
They got hurt rescuing kids from the burning abandoned church.
eager, very enthusiastic
What is avid?
to make certain
What is ensure?
the category of the writing (humor, science fiction, etc).
What is genre?
when the conflict’s intensity begins and develops
What is rising action?
tells more about a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Tells how, how many, when. Example: (He ate) slowly, (she ran) quickly, (we sang) loudly.
What is an adverb?
attributing human actions, emotions, or qualities to nonhuman things (The leaves danced in the wind.)
What is personification?
the atmosphere or feeling that you (the reader) get from the text or poem
What is mood?
What is Gustus's attitude toward the hurricane?
One of determination and bravery.
What are the two questions the narrator desperately asks the Raven during his descent into madness?
1. Whether he will be reunited with Lenore
2. If he can find any cure for his sorrow/sadness
Ponyboy compares himself to the character Pip from the novel Great Expectations. Why does he make this comparison?
Because both Pip and Ponyboy are poor, underprivileged, and constantly looked down upon.
very low in spirits; hopeless
What is despondent?
to assign or give out a share (of time, money, etc.)
What is allot?
examples an author uses to support their claim
evidence
when the conflict’s intensity lessens
What is falling action?
words that show action or a state of being. One of these is required in a sentence.
What is a verb?
a comparison using like or as (My dog is as cute as a button.)
What is a simile?
the author or speaker's attitude toward a subject
What is tone?
What is a calamity?
a disastrous event
What could the Raven's shadow "floating on the floor," symbolize at the end of the poem?
The narrator's unending, paralyzing grief and permanent despair.
In an Interview with S.E. Hinton, the author states that only "the names and the uniforms have changed" when asked about social groups. What does she mean by this?
That the group structures have stayed the same over time, it is only the labels that are different.
comfort or relief from sadness
What is solace?
to make things happen at the same time
What is synchronize?
when the characters, setting, and situation are introduced
when the conflict ends
What is resolution?
an exaggeration (My list is a mile long) (I’m so full I could explode!)
using the five senses to describe something
imagery
the repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis
What is repetition or refrain?
What are Gustus's parents' attitude towards the storm at the beginning of the story?
They are unconcerned, believing they've weathered worse.
What is the poem's final mood?
Absolute, permanent despair and psychological torment.
When Two-Bit refers to Randy (the recently deceased Bob's best friend) as a Soc, Ponyboy replies with "He ain't a Soc--he's just a guy."
What does Ponyboy mean by this?
That people are more than the labels society pins on them.
That Randy is more than a Soc and the stereotypes attached to that label; he is his own individual.
never-ending; continuous
What is perpetual?
to delay or put off doing something
What is procrastinate?
when the conflict gets the most intense
What is climax?
an appeal to expertise
what is ethos?
an appeal to emotion
what is pathos?
What is internal rhyme?
too satisfied, unconcerned, or self-satisfied
What is complacent?
extremely large or huge
What is colossal?
an appeal to logic/facts
what is logos?