Plot Diagram
What is the initiating event in the story?
Bob is killed
What does gold symbolize?
Text Example?
p.178
Youth, innocence
They walked around slowly, silently, and smiling..
what type of Poetic Device?
Alliteration
Darry has cooked dinner, baked chicke, corn, two chickens because all three of us eat like horses
What type of figurative language
simile
What does chronological mean?
time order
What is the Climax?
Johnny Dies
What does sunset symbolize?
Text Example?
Cherry and Pony see the same sunset
Beauty, people are the same
Soda was a greek god come to earth
Type of Figurative lang?
metaphor
What is the conflict in the story?
Soc vs. Greasers
Give an example of a word with a positive and negative connotation
varies
What is the resolution in the story?
Writes Novel
First sentence and last sentence are the same
What does rings symbolize?
Text example?
Bob is a SOC, used power to control others
Her laugh was as soft as her china blue eyes
Fig Lang Example?
simile
What is the TYPE of conflict?
Character vs. Society
Who is the protagonist in the story?
Ponyboy
What are the 3 rising action examples in the story?
1. Runs to the church
2. Fire in the church
3. Rumble
What is the point of view?
How do we know that?
1st person
I, we, you
Give an example of forshadowing
Two bit was there beside me and his comical grin was gone and His dancing grey eyes were stormy..
Type of figurative language?
personification
Who are the antagonists?
Soc
What are the 2 falling actions in the story?
Dally dies
3 boys are finally a family
Theme Statement: Things are rough all over....
What does that mean?
Everyone has problems
Dally handed me a shirt 60 million sizes too big
Type of fig lang?
hyperbole
I stood there like a bump on a log while they surrounded me..
Type of figurative language ?
Idiom or simile
Give an example of a flashback from the story
PB tells Cherry how Johnny got beat up by the SOc's.
Varies