Ponyboy
Which event most strongly contributes to Ponyboy's changing understanding of Cherry?
A. Cherry explains that she and the other Socs attend different schools from the Greasers.
B. Cherry explains that Socs experience difficulties despite their wealth and social status.
C. Cherry acts as a spy for the greasers before the rumble.
D. Cherry says that if she sees Pony around school and doesn't say hi, well, no hard feelings.
B. Cherry explains that Socs experience difficulties despite their wealth and social status.
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 OR Historical Fiction.
The blue Mustang symbolizes...
wealth, danger, Socs.
S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is an example of a circular narrative because...
the plot ends exactly where it begins.
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: at the end of chapter two on page 35....
"Things are rough all over," (Hinton 35).
OR
"Things are rough all over..." (Hinton 35).
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."
In what decade is The Outsiders set in?
1960s.
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.
Which of the following quotes is an example of INDIRECT characterization?
A. "Two-bit Matthews was the oldest of the gang and the funny one of the bunch."
B. "Johnny was the quiet one."
C. "He had been arrested, he got drunk, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids---he did everything."
D. "Sodapop is movie-star handsome."
C. "He had been arrested, he got drunk, lied, cheated, stole, rolled drunks, jumped small kids---he did everything."
"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.
What lesson does Ponyboy learn by the end of the novel?
Answers may vary.
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.
Which of the following quotes is an example of DIRECT characterization?
A. "Soda attracted girls like honey draws flies."
B. "They have a file on him down at the police station."
C. "They acted as if they'd like to spit on us if given the chance."
D. "He was cocky, smart, and Soda's best buddy since grade school."
D. "He was cocky, smart, and Soda's best buddy since grade school."
Which quote is cited correctly according to MLA format?
A. "Stay gold, Ponyboy. stay gold," (Hinton 148).
B. "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold," (Hinton 148).
C. Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold, (Hinton 148).
D. "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold..." (Outsiders 148).
B. "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold," (Hinton 148).
What is a possible theme statement found in S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders?
Answers may vary. (Not one word! That is a topic! Must be a life lesson that applies to all humans!)
Why is the sunset an important recurring image in the novel?
It reminds Ponyboy that Greasers and Socs can share the same world and appreciate the same beauty. That the two groups aren't that different after all.
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 Self, Character V Nature, Character V Society...etc...)
Character V Self.
What two examples of figurative language are exemplified in the following quote.
“...grinning like a Chessy cat.”
Simile and Allusion.
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.
Where are the two allusions to Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" in The Outsiders?
Johnny's last words to Ponyboy are "Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold."
AND
Johnny and Ponyboy discuss the poem while hiding out in a church in Windrixville.
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. building tension and suspense.
B. alliteration.
C. foreshadowing.
D. hyperbole.
A. building tension and suspense.
B. alliteration.
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 Self, Character V Nature, Character V Society...etc...)
Character V Society
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.