The turning point of the plot, during which the conflict reaches the height of interest or suspense.
What is the climax?
100
Occurs between characters or between a character and a larger force, such as nature or society.
What is external conflict?
100
A writer makes direct statements about a character's appearance, personality, and actions.
What is direct characterization?
100
Impossible to understand completely.
What is unfathomable?
100
They were each jumped by the Socials because they were walking alone and Greasers.
Who are Ponyboy and Johnny?
200
The conflict has ended.
What is the resolution?
200
Occurs within a character who faces opposing ideas, feelings, or choices.
What is internal conflict?
200
The writer suggest information about a character through what other characters say about him or her, or how other characters behave toward him or her.
What is indirect characterization?
200
Punched or hit really hard.
What is slugged?
200
He gave up a football scholarship to work and care for his brothers after the death of their parents.
Who is Darry?
300
Introduces the setting, characters, and basic situation (background).
What is the exposition?
300
Ponyboy and Johnny run away after Johnny kills Bob because the cops are looking for them.
What is man vs. society?
300
He had an elfish face, with high cheekbones and a pointed chin, small sharp animal teeth, and ears like a lynx. He was tougher, colder, and meaner than anyone.
Who is Dallas Winston or Dally?
300
Jet-set, West-side rich kids.
What are Socials?
300
The perspective from which a literary work is told.
What is point of view?
400
Conflict begins to develop and intensify. Conflict slows down following the plot's climax.
What are rising action and falling action?
400
Pony had difficulty and pain remembering Dally's and Johnny death.
What is man vs. self?
400
A dark puppy kicked too many times with big black eyes in a dark tanned face; hair was jet black, heavily greased, and combed to the side with a nervous suspicious look in his eyes.
Who is Johnny Cade?
400
Another word for crying?
What is balling?
400
The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
What is irony?
500
Sequence of events in a literary work, that interacts to develop character(s) that are involved in conflict.
What is a plot?
500
Johnny had fatal injuries he received while rescuing the school children from the fire.
What is man vs. nature
500
He is seventeen, tall and lean with thick greasy hair; cocky, smart, and Soda's best buddy since grade school. He could lift a hubcap quicker and more quietly than anyone in the neighborhood and knew cars upside down and backward.
Who is Steve Randle?
500
Wisely
What is sagely?
500
The central message or insight of a literary work.