Exposition
Initiating Event and Rising Action
Climax and Falling Action
Resolution and Denouement
Literary Devices
100
This is the main character.
Who is Ponyboy?
100
This is the initiating event.
What is Johnny killing Bob?
100
This is what Dally and Ponyboy learned at the hospital after the rumble.
What is Johnny's death?
100
This is the reason Ponyboy was angry at court.
What is the court not allowing Ponyboy to explain his perspective on the stabbing?
100
Windrixville, Jay Mountain, late at night, three months, and East Side are all examples of this.
What is setting?
200
This is where the Greasers meet Cherry and Marcia.
What is the drive-in theater?
200
This character gives Johnny and Ponyboy and gun, money, and directions.
Who is Dally?
200
This was the event that Darry doubted Ponyboy should join.
What is the Rumble?
200
This was Ponyboy's condition after Dally's death.
What is delirious / delirium?
200
The rivalry between the wealthy Socs and the poorer Greasers is an example of this.
What is conflict?
300
This is why Johnny carried a switchblade.
What is his prior brutal attack from the Socs?
300
This character agreed to pass information to the Greasers to help them against the Socs.
Who is Cherry?
300
This was the climax, or turning point, of the story.
When did Dally take and hide Two-Bit's switchblade in the hospital?
300
This was caused by his armed robbery of a convenience store and aiming his pistol at police.
What is Dally's death or What is the police shooting Dally?
300
The Outsiders is told through this perspective AND this character.
What is First Person and Who is Ponyboy?
400
This is the gang of wealthy kids who fight against the Greasers.
Who are the Socs (soh-shis).
400
This caused the newspapers to call them heroes, the courts to criticize their families, and the injury to Johnny's back.
What is Ponyboy and Johnny saving several children from the burning church?
400
He became confident and determined when the church was burning.
Who is Johnny?
400
This caused Ponyboy to realize "the Socs were just guys after all".
What is Randy explaining that Bob needed rules?
400
An example of this is when Ponyboy and Cherry were in line at the concession stand and he told her about the time Johnny had been jumped and beaten.
What is flashback?
500
On the night after the movie, this is the result of Johnny's parents abusing and neglecting him.
Why did Johnny not care if he went home late?
500
The words from this poem by this author inspired Johnny and Ponyboy to reflect on their youth and their futures.
What is "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost?
500
This character changes his mind about the fighting.
Who is Randy?
500
It matches the first line of the book.
What is significant about the last line of the book?
500
An example of this is "...the horizon was a thin golden line. The clouds changed from gray to pink, and the mist was touched with gold."
What is imagery?
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