Characters
Who said this, and what does it show about his/her personality?
"After all the trouble his father and I've gone to to raise him, this is our reward: He'd rather see those no-count hoodlums than his own folks [...] It was your fault. Always running around in the middle of the night getting jailed and heaven knows what else..."
Johnny's mother; answer will vary
From which part of the plot structure is the following quote? Explain your answer.
"I sat down and picked up my pen and thought for a minute. Remembering. Remembering a handsome, dark boy with a reckless grin and a hot temper. A tough, tow-headed boy with a cigarette in his mouth and a bitter grin on his hard face. Remembering --- and this time it didn't hurt --- a quiet, defeated-looking sixteen-year-old whose hair needed cutting badly and who had black eyes with a frightened expression to them."
Resolution / answers will vary
What type of conflict does the following quote illustrate? Explain your answer.
"Someone put his hand over my mouth, and I bit it as hard as I could, tasting the blood running through my teeth. I heard a muttered curse and got slugged again, and they were stuffing a handkerchief in my mouth."
Character v. Character / answers will vary
What type of figurative language is this? Explain your answer.
"Soda attracted girls like honey attracted flies."
Simile / answers will vary
Which word means "suspicious"?
leery
Who said this, and what does it show about his/her personality?
"We really picked them up [...] We're really Arabian slave traders and we're thinking about shanghaiing them. They're worth ten camels apiece at least."
Marcia / answers will vary
From which part of the plot structure is the following quote? Explain your answer.
"We're poorer than the Socs and the middle class. I reckon we're wilder, too. Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks, and get editorials in the paper for being a public disgrace one day and an asset to society the next. Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once in a while."
Exposition / answers will vary
What type of conflict does the following quote illustrate? Explain your answer.
"Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy us, and never finding it."
Character v. Self / answers will vary
What type of figurative language is this? Explain your answer.
"I started buttoning up the shirt. It about swallowed me."
Personification / answers will vary
What is the definition of the word STUPOR?
Whom is being described, and what does the description show about his/her personality?
"[...] was Dally's rodeo partner. He was the one who'd got Dally the job as a jockey for the Slash J. [He] raised a few quarter horses, and made most of his money on fixed races and a little bootlegging. I was under strict orders from both Darry and Soda not to get caught within ten miles of his place, which was dandy with me."
Buck Merril / answers will vary
From which part of the plot structure is the following quote? Explain your answer.
"He was jerked half around by the impact of the bullets, then slowly crumpled with a look of grim triumph on his face. He was dead before he hit the ground. But I knew that was what he wanted, even as the lot echoed with the cracks of shots, even as I begged silently--- Please, not him... not him and Johnny both ---I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted."
Climax / answers will vary
What type of conflict does the following quote illustrate? Explain your answer.
"Ain't you about to freeze to death, Pony?"
"You ain't a'woofin'," I said, rubbing my bare arms between drags on my cigarette.
Character v. Nature / answers will vary
What type of figurative language is this? Explain your answer.
"It was only yesterday that Dally had told Johnny and me that. But yesterday was years ago. A lifetime ago."
Hyperbole / answers will vary
Which word is a SYNONYM for STIFLED?
Answers may vary (ex: contained)
Who said this, and what does it show about his/her personality?
"I swear, you three are the bravest kids I've seen in a long time. First you and the black haired kid climbing in that window, and then the tough-looking kid going back in to save him. Mrs. O'Briant and I think you were sent straight from heaven. Or are you just professional heroes or something?"
Jerry Wood; answers will vary
From which part of the plot structure is the following quote? Explain your answer.
"I started to say something about the film of ice developing on the outer edges of the fountain when a sudden blast from a car horn made us both jump. The blue Mustang was circling the park slowly."
Rising Action / answers will vary
What type of conflict does the following quote illustrate? Explain your answer.
"It wasn't long before he and Steve and Two-Bit were throwing paper wads at each other and clowning around, and finally Steve dropped a hymn book with a bang--- accidentally, of course. Everyone in the place turned around to look at us, and Johnny and I nearly crawled under the pews. And then Two-Bit waved at them."
Character v. Society / answers will vary
What type of figurative language is this? Explain your answer.
"I swear, sometimes [Soda] reminds me of a colt--a long-legged palomino colt."
Metaphor / answers will vary
Give an example of how someone might show CONFORMITY.
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Who said this, and what does it show about his/her personality?
"Good goin', kid. Curly always said you were a good kid. Curly's in the reformatory for the next six months [...] He got caught breakin' into a liquor store, the little..."
Tim Shepard / answers will vary
From which part of the plot structure is the following quote? Explain your answer.
"I guess I looked as scared as I really was, because the judge grinned at me and told me to quit chewing my fingernails. That's a habit I have."
Falling Action / answers will vary
What type of conflict does the following quote illustrate? Explain your answer.
"It was Randy and Bob and three other Socs, and they recognized us. I knew Johnny recognized them; he was watching the moonlight glint off Bob's rings with huge eyes."
Character v. Self / answers will vary
What type of figurative language is this? Explain your answer.
"Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset."
Alliteration / answers will vary
When might you have to VEER?
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