Gerunds
They do not appreciate my singing.
What is the gerund, and how is it functioning in the sentence?
What is singing and direct object?
How do participles function?
What is an adjective?
What is the point of view of the novel, and who is the narrator?
What is the 1st-person point of view, and who is Ponyboy?
What does the theme mean?
What is the lesson or moral the author conveys to the reader?
Define stoutly.
What is bulky in figure?
We got in trouble for talking.
What is the gerund, and how is it functioning in the sentence?
What is talking and object of the preposition?
A present tense participle ends in ____.
What is -ing?
Where is the setting of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton?
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
Which type of irony is words suggest the opposite of what was meant?
What is verbal irony?
Looking exhausted, tired, and unwell means you are ____.
What is haggard?
Dawn's favorite activity is drawing.
What is the gerund, and how is it functioning in the sentence?
What is drawing and predicate nominative (a.k.a. predicate noun)?
What are six different ways past participles will end?
What are -ed, -en, -d, -t, -n, or -ne?
Who are the Greasers and Socs?
The Greasers are poor teens who live on the East side of Tulsa, while the Socs are rich teens who live on the West side.
What are...these items are symbols of the Socs' wealth, power, and ability to inflict pain on the Greasers without legal consequences.
What does being cynical mean in "Charles" by Shirley Jackson?
What is being distrustful of people and their motives?
What are three facts about gerunds?
Answers may vary
It ends in -ing, functions as a noun, and has six functions as a noun.
The man standing by the tree is suspicious.
What is the participial phrase in the sentence?
What is standing by the tree?
Which crimes did Johnny Cade and Ponyboy Curtis commit in chapter 4?
What is...Johnny Cade murdered Bob Sheldon in self-defense and fled the crime scene. Also, Ponyboy Curtis fled the location of the crime and ran away from home at 14.
Which short story element adds dramatic tension to the story by building suspense and anticipation?
What is foreshadowing?
Which term means personal belongings or equipment associated with a particular activity?
What is Paraphernalia?
List the six ways that gerunds function as a noun in sentences.
1. Subject
2. Direct Object
3. Indirect Object
4. Object of the Preposition
5. Predicate Nominative (Predicate Noun)
6. Appositives
The girl, sitting in the middle, is my cousin.
What is the participial phrase in the sentence, and which rule applies to this sentence?
What is sitting in the middle and rule #2 (if the participial phrase appears in the middle of a sentence, it should only be set off by commas if the information is nonessential)?
Explain at least five ways Dally Winston helped Johnny and Ponyboy after they murdered Bob Sheldon.
Answers may vary, but what is...
1. He provided them with a gun.
2. Dally gave them $50.00.
3. He gave them a plan by telling them to hide at an abandoned Church on Jay Mountain in Windrixville.
4. Dally gave Ponyboy a dry shirt and his leather jacket.
5. Lastly, he visited them in Windrixville and brought Sodapop's letter and paycheck to Ponyboy.
6. He took them to Dairy Queen to eat.
7. Dally told the police they were hiding in Texas.
8. Lastly, he saved them from dying in the church fire.
What is the dramatic irony contradiction between what the characters think and what the reader knows, and situational irony is an event that occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the reader?
This word means ill-tempered way.
What is petulantly?