Characterization
Soda is described as someone who, "never cracks a book at all."
This tells me he
does not care about school.
or
is not book smart.
"You're bleedin' like a stuck pig."
This is an example of
A simile
What is the allusion on page 10?
Will Rogers
The following quote is from which part of the plot?
"I don't was to die now. It ain't long enough. Sixteen years ain't long enough."
Falling Action
What type of conflict is the following example?
"I don't care, I lied to myself, I don't care about him either...I don't care about Darry. But I was still lying and I knew it.?
Internal
Man v. Self
The author uses direct characterization on page 6 to describe Darry.
Find the direct characterization.
"Darry is six-feet-two, and broad-shouldered and muscular. He has dark brown hair..."
The following quote has two types of figurative language.
What are they?
"His eyes were blue, blazing ice, cold with a hatred of the whole world."
A metaphor and personification.
Page 34 has an example of foreshadowing.
Find it.
"He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead body."
"I had a long walk home and no company, but I usually lone it anyway, for no reason except that I like to watch movies undisturbed."
Exposition
What type of conflict is the following example?
"Dally walked out with two packages of Kools under his jacket."
External
Man v. Society
What does this say about Two-Bit?
"...was the oldest of the gang and the wisecracker of the bunch."
He is funny or a jokester.
"He's as hard as a rock and about as human."
This is an example of
A simile
What are possible themes for this book?
Loss of innocence
Disparity between classes
Self v group identity
Self-sacrafice
"...he handed us a gun and a roll of bills' "the gun's loaded. For Pete's sake, Johnny, don't point the thing a me. Here's fifty bucks."
Falling Action
What type of conflict is the following example?
"Take your feet off my chair and shut your trap."...
Dally merely looked at her and kept his feet where they were. "Who's gonna make me?"
External
Man v. Man
On page 26 Johnny says, "You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members."
This says Johnny is
Loyal
I knew something had to happen or I would explode."
This is an example of
An idiom
Find an example of Imagery of page 44.
"One had on a white shirt and a madras ski jacket, and the other a light-yellow shirt and a wine-colored sweater."
"Bod, the handsome Soc, was lying there in the moonlight, doubled up and still. A dark pool was growing from him..."
Climax
"Exhaustion, shock, minor concussion - and Two-Bit came blubberin' over here with some tale about how you were running a fever before the rumble and how it was all his fault you were sick."
External
Man v Nature
Darry says to Ponyboy, "Don't you ever use your head?"
This is inferring that Ponyboy is not
StreetSmart
Thinking before acting
"The wind blasted through my soaked sweat shirt and dripping hair. My teeth chattered unceasingly..."
This is an example of
Personification
What is the allusion on page 71?
Gone with the Wind
Soc's show up to court to testify on behalf of Ponyboy.
Pony is exonerated. (Is free of blame for the death of Bob)
Then, decided to write his 'theme'.
Resolution
What type of conflict is the following example?
"I wished she had not asked me that. I hate to tell people my name for the first time. "Ponyboy Curtis"."
Internal
Man v. Self