Non-Fiction
Story Elements
Figurative Language
The Outsiders
Poetry
100

This type of text is thicker and darker than the text around it.

What is bold text/font?

100

This term is used to describe the time and place in which a story happens.

What is setting?

100

"School is like a prison" is an example of a simile while "School is a prison" is an example of this literary term.

What is a metaphor?

100

The name of Ponyboy's brother who worked at a gas station and who never fought with Ponyboy.

Who is Sodapop?

100

This term is used to describe words that have the same or similar end sounds.

What is rhyme/rhyming?

200

This type of text that is fact-based and the opposite of fiction.

What is non-fiction?

200

When a character is climbing a mountain and a blizzard hits it is an example of this type of conflict.

What is person vs. nature?

200

Out of idiom, personification, and onomatopoeia, it is the term for this example: "Bang!" 

What is onomatopoeia?

200

This local hangout spot was where Ponyboy and his friends first met Cherry Valance.

What is the drive-in movie theatre?

200

When there is no defined pattern or structure to a poem it falls into this category.

What is free verse?

300

When reading non-fiction text a reader may need to look at this alphabetically ordered section for a word's definition.

What is a glossary?

300

Out of round, flat, dynamic, and static it is the type of character that changes throughout the story.

What is dynamic?

300

"The clouds wept" is an example of this literary device.

What is personification?

300

Ponyboy and Johnny hid out in this building after Johnny killed Bob.

What is a church?

300

Out of ballad, couplet, and sonnet, this is the type of poem that has 14 lines and a distinct rhyme pattern.

What is a sonnet?

400

When a picture is included in a non-fiction text it is often accompanied by a short description known as this.

What is a caption?

400

This term is used to describe the moment that the rising action has been leading to in which there is generally the most tension.

What is climax?

400

Out of idiom, hyperbole, and alliteration, it is a term for when a string of words begins with the same letter/sound.

What is alliteration?

400

When Johnny was dying he wanted Ponyboy to know that he didn't have to become like the rest of the greasers.  He told him to stay like this precious metal.

What is gold?

400

ABAB ABAB, ABBA ABBA, and ABC ABC are all examples of this.

What is rhyme scheme/pattern?

500

Out of diagram, illustration, and appendix, it is the one that does not give you information visually.

What is appendix?

500

Out of indirect and direct it is the type of characterization that is done by using the character's words, thoughts, actions, and reactions to reveal who they are/what they are like.

What is indirect?

500

"She's like the swallow that flies so high" is an example of this.

What is simile?

500
One of the themes of The Outsiders is that people from different backgrounds are often more alike than they seem on the surface. Cherry Valance comes to see this when when talks to this character.

Who is Ponyboy?

500

A Japanese form of poetry that has a line of 5 syllables, a line of 7 syllables, and another line of 5 syllables.

What is a haiku?