The Outsiders
What gang does Ponyboy belong to?
The Greasers.
What genre of poetry has no set structure?
Free Verse.
True Grit, Riders of the Purple Sage, and Lonesome Dove all belong to which literary genre?
Western.
Which there/their/they're would you use to identify ownership?
Their.
How many books are there in a trilogy?
Three.
What side of town do the Socs live on?
The West Side.
What is a quatrain?
A stanza with four lines.
When a symbol is repeated throughout a story, what does it become?
A motif.
What is another term for a full stop?
Period.
Who is the antagonist in the classic Gothic story Frankenstein?
Frankenstein's monster.
What is Sodapop's legal name? First name and surname.
Sodapop Curtis.
What type of poem has 14 lines, a set rhyme scheme, and ten syllables per line?
A Sonnet.
The femme fatale is a common character in which genre?
Noir.
In this sentence, is it more appropriate to use a colon or a semi-colon?
Happy families are all alike [insert punctuation] every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
A semi-colon ;
How many books are there (so far) in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series?
20.
Who is leader of the gang that helps the Greasers win the rumble?
Tim Shepard.
Name one of the writers we studied in the poetry unit. First name and surname needed.
Jazz Money
Svetlana Sterlin
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Bob Dylan
William Shakespeare
"I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go."
What novel is this the final line of, who wrote it, and what genre does it belong to?
The Hunger Games/Suzanne Collins/Dystopian
A complete sentence has three components - what are they?
Subject, object, verb.
"In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf." Is the first line of which classic children's book?
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Source:
What is the name of the book Pony reads to Johnny when they are hiding out?
Gone With the Wind.
In this Traditional English Ballad, every second syllable is stressed. How many stresses are there in total in the stanza below?
’T is down in yonder garden green,
Love, where we used to walk,
The finest flower that e’re was seen
Is withered to a stalk.
14 stresses, alternating 4 stresses and 3 stresses.
Starting your story in the middle of the action is a great way to engage your reader. What is the Latin term for this?
In medias res
"Zach has been reading all of the latest articles on archeology." is an example of which tense?
- Past Continuous
- Future Perfect
- Present Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect Continous
(Action that started in the past and is still continuing.)
What is an epistolary novel?
A fictional story told through a collection of documents, usually letters.