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The Outsiders
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What word means "weird, hard to understand"?
unfathomable
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What is a verb?
a word that shows action
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Who are Ponyboy's brothers?
Darry and Soda
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What word means "to guess something that is not written in a story"?
infer
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What does the phrase "get all the breaks" mean?
to have it easy, have an easy life
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What word means "a bad girl"?
broad
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What is a noun?
a person, place, thing, or idea
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Why does Cherry get mad at Dallas at the movie theater?
He puts his feet on Cherry's chair and says dirty things to her.
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What word means "to guess what will happen in a story"?
predict
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What does "dig" mean?
to like something
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What word is slang for "steal"?
lift
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What is an adjective?
a describing word
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What happens to Ponyboy at the beginning of the story?
He gets jumped by the Soc's, but the gang saves him.
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What is motivation?
the reason you do something
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What is the word "fuzz" slang for?
police
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What word is slang for "drunk"?
crocked
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When an adjective is used to compare only 2 nouns, it is a COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVE. What 2 letters usually go at the end of comparative adjectives?
-er
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Why is it important to Cherry and Ponyboy that they can both see the same sunset?
It means that even though their lives are very different, they have some things they can share.
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What is "theme"?
the main idea of a story
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What word do we use to describe a person who can't believe something?
incredulous
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What word means "to get"?
acquire
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When an adjective compares 3 or more nouns, it is called a SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVE. What letters usually go at the end of a superlative adjective?
-est
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What is the setting of The Outsiders?
Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the 1960s
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Define "characterization."
Characterization is how the writer describes a character in a story.
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What word is used to describe a pattern on clothes that the Soc's wear in The Outsiders?
madras