Characters
Plot Events
Symbols
Extras
Vocabulary Words
100
This character is known for his book smarts
Who is Ponyboy
100
This is the first situation where Ponyboy proves that he does not have street smarts.
What is walking home from the movies alone?
100
This represents the wealth and emptiness of the Socs.
What is a blue mustang
100
These two sides have been battling for years an no one really seems to know why.
Who are the Socs and Greasers
100

Used to depict or represent ideas or qualities in literature

What is Symbolism

200
We learn about this character being jumped by the Socs in a flashback. He also has a bad relationship with his parents
Who is Johnny
200
Johnny and Ponyboy's reason for running away.
What is Bob's murder?
200
This represents how the Greasers are tuff and not clean cut.
What is long hair?
200
This is what Dallas had in his hand at the end of the novel, which the police shot him for.
What is an unloaded gun
200

The main idea or subject of a piece of writing, movie, or other work

What is Theme

300
This character sees both sides of the Soc and Greaser fight, and wishes they would all find a way to get along.
Who is Cherry Valance
300
This is the place that Dallas tells Ponyboy and Johnny to go to after the fight with the Socs.
What is an abandoned church
300
Ponyboy and Cherry both like this and it demonstrates that the Socs and Greasers are really not that different.
What are sunsets and sunrises
300
we see this type of irony when Ponyboy and Johnny, who are thought to be criminals, become heroes in the end of the novel.
What is situational irony
300

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

What is Imagery?

400
This character turns out to be a truly kind and loving person, even though he dies with his public image being that of a delinquent.
Who is Dallas Winston
400
This is the heroic thing that Ponyboy and Johnny do in the novel.
What is risk their lives to save children from the burning church.
400
This is a novel that Johnny reads because he sees the connection of the Civil War to the battles between the Socs and Greasers
What is Gone With The Wind
400
This is where Ponyboy dreams of moving to in a perfect world.
What is the countryside.
400

An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

What is allusion?

500
This character had to grow up too fast when his parents died and he was forced to raise his younger brothers.
Who is Darry Curtis
500

These are Johnny's last words to Ponyboy.

What is "Stay Gold"

500
This is the name of the horse who represented Sodapop's personality.
What is Micky Mouse
500
This is what Bob always needed from his parents
What is discipline
500

A figure of speech that compares two things that are not related, but uses the qualities of one to describe the other

What is a metaphor?

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