Literary Elements
1960's in Tulsa, Oklahoma
What is setting?
The character comes face to face with the problem. This is a turning point in the story and the chracter will change in some way.
What is climax?
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is simile?
What symbol from The Outsiders is being described below?
youth and innocence
What is gold?
Objective or subjective?
Omniscient; Speaker exposes their feelings
What is subjective?
The central or main message the author is trying to convey.
What is theme?
Introduction of characters, setting, conflict
What is exposition?
Descriptive language that uses your senses to create a mental picture.
What is imagery?
What symbol from The Outsiders is being described below?
equality, beauty, and goodness of the world
What is a sunset?
The word a pronoun is refering to.
What is an antecedent?
What point of view is The Ousiders told from?
What is first person?
Johnny and Ponyboy running away if part of the _______ of the plot.
What is rising action?
"I'd read everything in the house about fifty million times" What figurative lanauge device is being used?
What is hyperbole?
What symbol from The Outsiders is being described below? marker of the Greaser's identity
What is greaser hair?
Identify the antecedent(s) below.
Cherry and Ponyboy both see the same sunset even though they live on different sides of town.
Who are Cherry and Ponyboy?
The author's voice or attitude about what he/she writes.
What is tone?
The part after the Greasers win the rumble is part of the _______ of the plot.
What is falling action?
"I started buttoning up the shirt. It about swallowed me." What figurative lanauge device is being used?
What is personification?
What symbol from The Outsiders is being described below? physical and social pattern
What are rings?
"Soda put his hand on my shoulder, 'Easy, Ponyboy They ain't gonna hurt you anymore.'"
What is indirect?
Fill in the blank. Johnny's ______ to kill Bob was to save himself and Ponyboy.
What is motivation?
The story's outcome is known as the denoument OR ______.
What is resolution?
The reference to the Garden of Eden in the poem Nothing Gold Can Stay is an example of what figurative language device?
What is allusion?
What symbol from The Outsiders is being described below? the color for danger
What is blue?
What kind of characterization is this?
"Two-bit Matthews was the oldest of the gang and the wisecrack of the bunch."
What is direct?