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Who Said it?
Literary Terms
Order of Events
Basic Facts
100
Narrator of the story
Who is Ponyboy Curtis
100
"Oh, Pony, I thought we'd lost you...like we did Mom and Dad..."
Who is Darry Curtis
100

Ponyboy feels different from the rest of the gang.

What is internal conflict

100

This happened right after Darry slapped Ponyboy for getting home late

What is Ponyboy ran away and met up with Johnny at the lot

100
This is the decade during which The Outsiders is set
What are the 1960s
200

Red-headed Soc who becomes a spy

Who is Cherry Valance

200
"I could fall in love with Dallas Winston. I hope I never see him again."
Who is Cherry Valance
200

The judge decides Ponyboy is cleared of any wrong doing and the boys get to stay together.

What is the resolution

200
This is what caused Johnny to kill Bob
What is the Socs were drowning Ponyboy
200
This is the author of The Outsiders
Who is S.E. Hinton
300
Character who dies from a broken back
Who is Johnny Cade
300
"You know what a Greaser is? White trash with long hair."
Who is Bob Sheldon
300

The initiating event of the story.

What is when Johnny kills Bob

300
This happens right after Ponyboy and Johnny change their appearances
What is Dally visits
300
This is how old the author was when she wrote The Outsiders
What is sixteen
400

Oldest of the Curtis brothers; sometimes called "superman"

Who is Darry Curtis

400
"Sixteen years ain't long enough. I wouldn't mind it so much if there wasn't so much stuff I ain't done yet and so many things I ain't seen."
Who is Johnny Cade
400

The literary term for the struggle between the Socs and the Greasers

What is external conflict

400

This happens right before Dally pulls Johnny from the burning church

What is Ponyboy and Johnny rescue the kids

400

This is the town and state most of the action takes place

Where is Tulsa, Oklahoma 

500

He is the wise-cracker of the group

Who is Two-Bit

500

"You get tough like me and you don't get hurt."

Who is Dally Wintston

500

The term for including well-known literature and/or people in a story such as Gone with the Wind and Elvis Presley.

What is Allusion.

500

This happens right after Johnny dies

What is Dally robs a grocery store and gets shot by the police

500

This is the name of the musicians the greasers and socs like, respectively

Elvis Presley and the Beatles