The Outsiders
The 3 main characters of "The Outsiders"
Who are Ponyboy, Dally and Johnny?
A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
What is an anecdote?
Where and when an event takes place in a short story.
What is setting?
It is what the passage or paragraph is about.
What is the main idea?
A struggle between a person or an outside force.
What is external conflict?
The poem Ponyboy recites for Johnny when they see a sunrise together.
What is "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
What is characterization?
The most intense or exciting high point of a short story.
What is climax?
The unique way an author crafts their argument or story.
What is writing style?
A sign or warning of what is going to happen next.
What is foreshadowing?
The way that the Curtis' parent's died.
What is a car crash?
A literary device mentioning something from another text without explicitly saying the text.
What is an allusion?
The main events of a short story?
What is plot?
A word used to describe making more attractive or beautiful.
What is zhuzh?
Descriptive language that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
Where Johnny and Ponyboy went with Dally when he came to visit them at the church
What is Dairy Queen?
A literary device used when the audience knows something that the character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
The central idea or message in a story.
What is theme?
The way the author makes the reader feel when reading.
What is mood?
Important to do when writing in first person as a student in Mrs. Kaiser's class.
What is capitalizing your I's?
The character whose house Johnny and Ponyboy went to when they were trying to find Dally.
Who is Buck Merril?
A literary device when the author makes the sentence longer through the use of repeated conjunctions.
What is polysyndeton?
The specific event or decision that disrupts the protagonist's usual life and thrusts them into the story's main action.
What is inciting incident?
The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.
What is tone?
Mrs. Kaiser's husband
Who is Tim?