An elfish face, with high cheekbones and a pointed chin, small sharp animal teeth, and ears like a lynx. Hair almost white it was so blond. He didn't like haircuts, or hair oil, so it fell over his forehead in wisps and kicked out in the back in tufts and curled behind his ears and along the nape of his neck. His eyes were blue, blazing ice, cold with hatred of the whole world.
Who is Dally?
100
Pony believes that Darry does not love him.
What is internal conflict or man vs. self?
100
Socs jump Johnny and then Ponyboy.
Johnny kills Bob
Pony and Johnny run away
What is rising action?
100
The result of a contrast between appearance or expectation and reality.
What is irony?
100
This book contained southern gentlemen riding gallantly to sure death.
What is Gone with the Wind?
200
A little dark puppy, kicked too many times, and is lost in a crowd of strangers. He had big black eyes in a dark tanned face, hair jet-black and heavily greased, combed to the side. It was so long that if fell in shaggy bangs across his forehead with a suspicious, nervous look in his eyes from getting jumped by the Socs.
Who is Johnny?
200
Johnny kills Bob because the Socs were drowning Pony.
What is external conflict or man vs. man?
200
Johnny and Pony rescue the kids from the burning church.
What is climax?
200
A central message or insight conveyed in a work of literature.
What is theme?
200
It is the name of the poem Ponyboy recites to Johnny.
Identify of the author of that poem?
What is "Nothing Gold Can Stay"? Who is Robert Frost?
300
He is movie-star kind of handsome, he's slimmer than his brother but with a finely, drawn sensitive face that somehow manages to be reckless and thoughtful at the same time. He's got dark-gold hair, long and silky and straight; in the summer, it turns to wheat-gold. His eyes are dark brown, lively dancing, recklessly laughing, they can be gentle and sympathetic one moment and blazing with anger the next. He does not drink and gets drunk on plain living.
Who is Soda?
300
Ponyboy and Johnny goes into the burning church to save the children.
What is man vs. nature or external conflict?
300
Pony realizes that Darry loves him.
The Socs and Greasers rumble.
Johnny dies
Dally dies
Greasers and Socs agree to leave each other alone
What is falling action?
300
Sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
300
Who did Ponyboy play a game of chicken with? hint: This person was in reformatory during the rumble and he was Tim Shepard's younger brother.
Curly Shepard
400
The oldest of the gang and wisecracker of the bunch. He is six-feet tall, stocky in build, and very proud of his long rusty-colored sideburns. He had grey eyes and a wide grin and couldn't stop making funny remarks. He was famous for shop-lifting and his black-handled switchblade as well as mouthing off to cops. He liked fights, blondes, and for some unfathomable reason, school.
Who is Two-Bit?
400
The cops look for Dally after he robs a gas station.
What is man vs. society or external conflict?
400
Pony decides on a theme for his English paper.
What is denoument?
400
Setting, conflict, theme, characters, point of view, and plot.
What are elements of a short story?
400
This is the name of the town Pony and Johnny ran to hide out.
What is Windrixville?
500
Six-feet-two, and broad shouldered and muscular. He has dark-brown hair that kicks out in front and a slight cowlick in the back. He's got eyes that are like two pieces of pale blue-green ice and cold. He is tough, cool, and smart. He like everything to be plain hard fact and uses his head.
Light-brown hair, almost red hair and greenish-grey eyes. Long hair squared off in the back and long at the front and sides. He wanted to look like Paul Newman, like movies, sunsets, and books.
Who is Darry and Pony?
500
Two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
500
Pony, Dally, Darry, Cherry, Soda, Two-Bit, Steve Randle, and Johnny.
The story takes place in the mid-west, drive-in, gas station, the lot, and the park.
The Greasers and Socs do not get along, they are enemies.
What is exposition?
500
The perspective from which a literary work is told.
What is point of view?
500
The name of the movie star Pony wished he looked like.