Author(s) Information
What S.E. stands for in S.E. Hinton's name
What is Susan Eloise?
The name of Soda's horse (two names)
What is Mickey Mouse?
The word for when a future event in the novel is referenced to excite the reader/warn them about what will happen.
What is foreshadowing?
In one complete sentence explain the lesson of "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
What is something something things change?
The inciting incident of the novel.
What is Johnny killing Bob?
The thing S.E. Hinton based the gangs in the story on
What are real gangs in her high school?
The setting of The Outsiders
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s?
The word for a pair of lines that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
Define Chekov's Gun and list an example of it from the text.
The other author to be unhappy with the offerings for children's literature which prompted him/her to write the story he/she wanted to see in the world (like S.E. Hinton).
Who is Gary Soto?
The title that S.E. Hinton was granted for the success of The Outsiders that brought her fame and stress
What is the voice of the youth?
The thing Sandy sent Soda that made him upset
What is a letter he wrote her unopened?
The style of narration that The Outsiders is written in.
What is first person limited?
In complete sentences explain what eye color is used to stand for in the eye color metaphor and list two character's eye colors and what they tell you about the character.
{0-0}?
Explain the difference between indirect and direct characterization.
What is in indirect characterization you have to interpret some element of the character and in direct characterization the author directly tells you something?
The famous event Robert Frost was the first poet to read at.
What is a presidential inauguration?
List the three physical things Dally provided Johnny and Pony at Buck Merrill's house before they went on the run (besides a plan).
What is money, a gun, and a jacket?
The rhyme scheme of "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
What is AABBCCDD?
Draw and label a complete plot map with the six labeled parts and plot moments for each part
Wow look at that map?
The biblical event alluded to in "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
What is the Garden of Eden?
Robert Frost's Epitaph
What is that he "had a lover's quarrel with the world?"
List each of the greasers' (besides the Curtis brothers) family situations/problems.
What is:
Two Bit's mother works to support his sister
Dally's dad doesn't care about him
Steve's father kicks him out/is angry
Johnny's parents are abusive and neglectful?
One example of internal conflict from the novel and one example of external conflict from the novel.
{Heroism I am crying?}
The thing the greaser subculture had lost faith in/become disillusioned with.
What is the American Dream?