Figurative Language
Slang
Vocabulary
Chapter Questions
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100

"He's got eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue-

green ice."

Simile

100

Booze

Alcohol

100

hue

color


100

Why were Cherry and Marcia alone at the drive in?

Their boyfriends got drunk and they didn't want to hang out with them anymore


100

Why was Pony late coming home after the nightly double?

He fell asleep in the lot

200

"Dally handed me a shirt about sixty-million

sizes too big."

hyperbole

200

Cancer stick

Cigarette 

200

subside

to sink back or down

200

What mountain do Ponyboy and Johnny escape to?

Jay Mountain
200

"Dallas had a record with the Fuzz a mile long" is an example of which literary device?

Hyperbole

300

"Johnny still reminded me of a lost puppy."

Metaphor

300

Tuff

Something cool

300

conviction

a strong belief

300

Whose house do Ponyboy and Johnny go to after Johnny kills Bob?

Buck Merrill's

300

What is Ponyboy's last name?

Curtis

400

"My overactive imagination was running away with me again."

Personification

400

Fuzz

The police

400

rivalry

a continued striving for advantage over another.

400

Who writes Ponyboy a letter?

Sodapop

400

Where else has Dally lived?

New York

500

"He’s so greasy, he glides when he walks. He goes

to the barber for an oil change, not a haircut."

Metaphor

500

Woofin'

To be kidding

500

gingerly

carefully

500

Who do the southern gentlemen in Gone With the Wind remind Johnny of?

Dally

500

Where does Dally tell the police Johnny and Ponyboy went?

To Texas

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