Ponyboy
This character comes from an abusive/neglectful home.
Johnny Cade.
S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is narrated from this perspective or point-of-view.
First person point-of-view.
What is the literary genre of S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders?
Realistic fiction.
What is Cherry's full name?
Sherri Valence.
The blue Mustang symbolizes...
wealth, danger, Socs.
Ponyboy had two things on his mind when he left the movie house: Paul Newman and....
a ride home.
Who is the protagonist and narrator of the story?
Ponyboy Curtis.
At the drive-in movies, this is what Cherry tells Ponyboy about the Socs that he has a hard time believing...until later on in the plot.
QUOTE MUST BE WRITTEN AND CITED CORRECTLY IN MLA FORMAT!
HINT: Page 35
"Things are rough all over," (Hinton 35).
OR
"Things are rough all over..." (Hinton 35).
Which quote is cited correctly according to MLA format?
A."Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold," (Outsiders 148).
B. Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold. (Hinton 148).
C. "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold," (Hinton 148).
D. "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold." (Hinton 148)
C. "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold," (Hinton 148).
Which describes the conflict between Ponyboy being a Greaser, but not fitting in with everything being a "Greaser" stands for?
Character V Character
Character V Society
Character V Self
Character V Nature
Character V Self
This is the book that Pony and Johnny read while hiding out.
Gone With the Wind.
“Dally handed me a shirt about sixty-million sizes too big.”
This quote is an example of what type of figurative language?
Hyperbole.
This is what happened to Ponyboy's parents.
Passed away in a car crash.
"And Johnny, who was the most law-abiding of us, now carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade. He’d use it, too, if he ever got jumped again. They had scared him that much. He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body...” (Hinton, 34).
This quote is an example of which literary device?
Foreshadowing.
What are the names of Ponyboy's brothers? (Last name included!)
Darry and Sodapop Curtis.
Which describes the conflict between how the Greasers and the Socs are unfairly stereotyped by the way they look, where they live, and their socioeconomic status?
Character V Character
Character V Society
Character V Self
Character V Nature
Character V Society
This is what gallant means, and a character who was described as being gallant by Johnny.
Heroic, a gentleman couragous; Dally...Johnny's hero.
“It [Buck’s shirt] about swallowed me.”
This quote is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification.
What is Two-Bit's most prized possession and how did he acquire it?
His black-handled switchblade and he shoplifted it.
Johnny's last words to Ponyboy are an allusion to what?
The poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost, which Ponyboy recited to Johnny at the church watching the sunrise.
The author of The Outsiders is...
S.E. Hinton a.k.a. Susan Eloise Hinton.
Where does Dally tell Johnny and Ponyboy to run away to and hide out?
Windrixville, in a church, on top of Jay Mountain.
Which of the following two quotes are examples of foreshadowing?
A. "It was more four months ago. I had walked down to the DX station to get a bottle of pop..."
B. "Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get worse. I was wrong."
C. "I went to sleep in a hoodlum's jacket, with a gun lying next to my hand."
D. "Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky. I know better now."
B. "Things gotta get better, I figured. They couldn't get worse. I was wrong."
D. "Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky. I know better now."
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.
What is the theme of the poem?
Nothing good 'golden' will last forever or for very long...but answers may vary.
In chapter one of The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton uses this process to indirectly and directly reveal the main characters' personalities.
Characterization.
S.E. in the author's name stands for what?
Susan Eloise.
Provide an example of INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION from chapters 1 or 2. MUST BE CITED CORRECTLY!
Answers may vary.
When the Socs jump Ponyboy as he is walking home from the movies, Hinton writes, "They walked around slowly, silently, smiling." This line exemplifies which two of the following:
A. a literary allusion.
B. building tension and suspense.
C. alliteration.
D. foreshadowing.
B. building tension and suspense.
C. alliteration.
Where are the two allusions to Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" in The Outsiders?
Johnny and Ponyboy discuss the poem while hiding out in a church in Windrixville.
AND
Johnny's last words to Ponyboy are "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold."
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.
What is being personified in the first lines of the poem?
Mother nature.