Vocabulary
Dominant ideas, beliefs, and values of a culture
What is Mainstream?
Ponyboy's bad habit
What is not thinking?
The narrator of The Outsiders
Who is Ponyboy?
The techniques an author uses to build understanding of a character
What is Characterization?
Most of the story develops in this part of the plot. It leads to the Climax
What is Rising Action?
B. An assumption about a person or group that is over-generalized
What is Stereotype?
This gang is from the Westside
Who are the Socs?
Where was Ponyboy coming from when he was jumped?
What is the movies?
The process of describing a character through that character's thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue.
What is Indirect Characterization?
The author's attitude toward a certain topic
What is Tone?
Rejects what is expected by mainstream culture
What is CounterCulture?
To cause sharp pain (physical or emotional)
What is to Smart?
Lived in New York and had already been arrested by the age of 10.
Who is Dally?
The main character, hero, or heroine in a story that has to accomplish some type of goal or reach a realization of something
What is a Protagonist?
Refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story
What is Mood?
A story is told from the point of view of a character in the story
What is First-Person Narration
The Soc represents which society?
What is Mainstream?
Sodapop tell Pony he loves this person at the end of chapter 1
Who is Sandy
The way an author or another character within the story describes or reveals a character.
What is Direct Characterization?
an idea, symbol, image, or device that occurs multiple times throughout the text
What is a Motif?
A classic example of a character or thing that recurs throughout literature
What is an Archetype?
Ponyboy, Darry, Soda, Dally, and Two-bit are apart of this gang
What are Greasers?
At the end of the chapter, what lie does Ponyboy tell?
What is he doesn't care if Darry loves him?
The character that goes against the main character in a story; the villain
What is an Antagonist?
In The Outsiders, they were killed in a car accident
Who are Ponyboy's, Darry's, and Soda's parents?