Characters
Literary Terms
You've Got a Way with Words
Plot Points
Cause & Effect
100

Is fearful and anxious like a puppy kicked too many times. 

Johnny

100

The following quote is an example of which literary term: "Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get any worse. I was wrong." 

 Foreshadowing

100

Johnny wants to remind Ponyboy to stay young at heart, or as it is called in the Robert Frost poem, this color.

Gold

100

This is the only thing keeping Darry from being a Soc. 

The gang and his brothers

100

Knowing that their descriptions are in the paper, Ponyboy and Johnny do this to disguise themselves.

Ponyboy cuts and dyes his hair. Johnny cuts his hair.

200

Acts as a spy between the Greasers and Socs. 

 Cherry Valance

200

When an object stands for something other than itself, like the sun that both Cherry and Ponyboy see. 

 symbol. 

200

To finally settle the score between the two classes, the greasers and the socs engage in a large fight also known as this.

A rumble

200

Because he feels that someone needs to tell his friends' story, Ponyboy does this. 

Writes an essay for English

200

Because of this, Ponyboy finally realizes that Darry really does love him.

Darry cries at the hospital.

300

Chooses to skip the rumble because he knows it doesn't do any good. 

 Randy

300

This is what Greaser hair SYMBOLIZES for Ponyboy and the rest of the gang. 

 identity or pride. 

300

This is another way that the Greasers refer to the cops. 

The Fuzz.

300

Society views Ponyboy as this 

A criminal who is like everyone else in his neighborhood 

300
This event causes Ponyboy to run away from home.
Darry slaps him.
400

Quit school because he thinks he is stupid

 Sodapop 

400

When the characters are introduced at the beginning of the novel, this is an example of which part of the plot pyramid? 

 exposition. 

400

After Bob's death, the socs and greasers are more hostile towards each other. As a result, Dally starts to carry this, a slag word for a gun.

Heater

400

Dally wants to die because of this. 

Johnny's death

400

Because of this, Cherry refuses to see Johnny at the hospital.

He killed Bob

500

Is murdered by Johnny. 

Bob. 

500

When Ponyboy read Great Expectations for English class, it is an example of which literary term? 

 allusion. 

500

This word means to be bold and brave

Gallant

500
This is how Ponyboy views Socs by the end of the novel. 

As regular people just like Greasers. 

500

These facts cause Darry to feel ashamed when he sees Paul Holden at the rumble.

Darry is a greaser and Darry never went to college.

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