Literary Terms and Vocab
This person tells the story.
Who is the narrator?
He narrates the story and loves sunsets.
Who is Ponyboy?
These people attack Ponyboy on his way home from the movie house.
Who are the Socs?
These characters help save children from a church fire.
Who are Ponyboy and Johnny?
This girlfriend wanted to get together with Johnny while Dally was in the cooler.
Who is Sylvia? (chapter 2)
This person is the main character or hero in the story.
Who is the protagonist?
He is the toughest guy in the gang and is killed by the police.
Who is Dally?
This word means cool and sharp looking.
What is tuff?
This character is severely wounded in the church fire.
Who is Johnny?
She went to live with her grandmother in ____________. Who is 'she' and where did she go?
Who is Sandy?
Where is Florida.
What is antagonist?
He is movie-star handsome and wanted to marry Sandy.
Who is Sodapop?
These characters have a disagreement at the Nightly Double.
Who are Dally and Cherry?
This character's parents never gave him rules or boundaries.
Who is Bob?
Who is Steve's girlfriend?
"But _________ saw no reason to throw away a perfectly good, free Coke." Name this girl.
Who is Evie?
Who is Marcia?
The technique that authors use to give the reader clues about what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
He is the gang's pet. He does not have a good relationship with his parents.
He is the guidance councillor who rides in the ambulance with Ponyboy.
Who is Johnny?
Who is Jerry Wood?
Two characters love watching these and it shows that perhaps the Socs and Greasers aren't so different after all.
Secondly, what saved Ponyboy from being severely burned while in the church.
What are sunsets?
What is Dally's jacket?
Ages-How old is each character: Dally (?), Darry (?), Two-Bit (?)
Secondly, whose eyes are described as "blue, BLAZING ice, cold..."
Dally/Dallas (17)
Darry/Darrel (20)
Two-Bit (18.5)
Who is Dally?
a) too mysterious to be understood.
b) showing a lack of belief; doubting; not ready to believe. (ex. He listened to the neighbor's story with an _____ smile.)
c) a small tuft of hair that will not lie flat.
a) What is unfathomable?
b) What is incredulous?
c) What is a 'cowlick'?
She is Bob's girlfriend. She loves sunsets too.
Elvis Presley was loved by the __________.
Which musical group was loved by the Socs?
Who is Cherry?
Who are the greasers?
Who are the Beatles?
This person kills Bob.
On which mountain does one find the abandoned church?
Who is Johnny?
What is Jay Mountain?
What was the name of the book that Johnny bought while they both were hiding in the church?
"I couldn't tell Two-Bit or Steve or even Darry about the sunrise and clouds and stuff. I couldn't even remember that poem around them. I mean, they just don't dig. Just you and __________________. And maybe ____________." Name the two other characters.
What is GONE WITH THE WIND?
Who are Sodapop and Cherry Valance?
Which greaser never smoked a weed in his life?
Who wrote the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay"?
"Only last week _________________ had cracked three of Dally's ribs." Who is the person in question (the person who cracked Dally's ribs)?
Who is Darry/Darrel?
Who is Robert Frost?
Who is Tim Shepard? (chapter 8)