Name: ______

Date: ______Block: ______

S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders

Test: ______

I. Literary Terms Application

Directions: Fill-in the blanks using the terms listed in the box.

characterizationconflictdynamic flashback
foreshadowinggenre narratorsetting
static theme first-person third-person

1. The ______of The Outsiders is 1960s, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

2. The ______of The Outsiders can be described as realistic fiction because it is based on the

real-life problems everyday teenagers face.

3. The ______of novel is Ponyboy, who tells his own story.

4. The novel is told in ______point of view because Ponyboy tells what happened to him using

the pronouns “I,” “me,” and “my.”

5. Ponyboy can be described as a ______character because he matures during the course of the

novel.

6. Bob Sheldon can be described as a ______character because his personality and/or outlook

on life does not change in a meaningful way.

7. The main ______of the novel is greasers vs. Socs.

8. An example of ______occurs when Ponyboy describes to Cherry how the Socs jumped

Johnny because the sequence of events in the story gets interrupted by the description of a prior event.

9. One of the messages or ______(s) of the novel is that everyone has problems.

10. When Ponyboywrites, “We were careful with our cigarettes—if that church ever caught fire, there’d be no

stopping it,” itis an example of ______because that is a clue that church will catch fire later
in the story.

II. Figurative Language Definitions

Directions: Match each term on the left with its correct definition on the right.

_____ 11. simile
_____ 12. metaphor
_____ 13. personification
_____ 14. hyperbole
_____ 15. alliteration
_____ 16. onomatopoeia
_____ 17. symbolism
_____ 18. allusion / A. a reference to a famous literary work; often made to the Bible and
Shakespeare
B. extreme exaggeration made for effect(e.g. I’m so hungry I could eat a
horse.)
C. a comparison between two unlike things in which one becomes the other;
usually uses a “to be” verb(e.g. The road was a ribbon of moonlight.)
D. the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close
together(e.g. Peter Piper went to pick a pack of pickled peppers.)
E. a comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as” (e.g. Her hair
was like golden flax.)
F. representing an idea or feeling with an object, character, sign, or color (e.g. a
dove represents peace)
G. ascribing human feelings, thoughts or attitudes to non-living, inanimate
objects(e.g. The tree branches danced in the wind.)
H. words that imitate the sounds they represent (e.g. moo, click)

III. Themes – take half and add to the test!

Directions: Match the themes on the left with the examples from the novel on the right.

____ 19. “Types” of people (such as Greasers
or Socs) are not necessarily bad.
____ 20. Life is rough all over for everyone.
____ 21. A “broken” or nontraditional family
can still be a good family.
____ 22. Some people want to die.
____ 23. Don’t judge people based on looks.
____ 24. People from different social classes
can have similar needs and feelings.
____ 25. People who get angry with us aren’t
necessarily doing it because they
don’t like us.
____ 26. You can’t run away from your
problems.
____ 27. We are all outsiders at one time or
another.
____ 28. It is important to learn how to cope
when someone close to us dies. /
  1. Ponyboy, his brothers, and the Greasers
care about each other.
  1. Cherry and Ponyboy both think sunsets are beautiful.
  1. Darry yells at Ponyboy all of the time.
  1. Three Greasers sacrifice their own safety to save the school children from the fire.
  1. Ponyboy and Johnny hide in the church.
  1. Greasers have long hair, wear T-shirts and leather jackets, and look like hoods.
  1. Socs have problems, too.
  1. Ponyboy denies that Johnny is dead.
  1. Ponyboy likes to read and go to the movies, unlike the other Greasers.
  1. Dally waves an unloaded gun at the police.

IV. Figurative Language Practice

Directions: Read each quote from the novel carefully. Underline the key words, then, on the line provided, write “S” for simile, “M” for metaphor, “H” for hyperbole, or “P” for personification.

S –simileM – metaphorH – hyperboleP - personification

______29. “…in the moonlight he looked like some Greek god come to earth.”

______30. “Her early leaf’s a flower;\But only so an hour.”

______31. “He would have run away a million times, if we hadn’t been there.”

______32. “There was a silent moment when everything held its breath, and then the sun rose."

______33. “If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of

strangers, you’ll have Johnny.”

______34. “I looked fearfully over my shoulder and there was Two-Bit, grinning like a Chessy Cat.”

______35. “Johnny couldn't say boo to a goose.”

______36. “He’s got eyes that are two pieces of pale blue-green ice.”

______37. “Then I looked at Johnny. His eyes were shut and he was as white as a ghost.”

______38. “Steve had turned up the radio so loud it almost broke my eardrums.”

______39. “Man your brother is one doll. I might have guessed you were brothers—you look alike”

______40. “It scraped on my raw nerves like sandpaper.”

______41. “Dally grinned roguishly, ‘I’m never nice. Want a Coke?’

She was mad by then, ‘I wouldn’t drink it if I was starving in the desert. Get lost, hood!’”

______42. “Dally handed me a shirt about sixty million sizes too big.”

______43. “He was as white as a ghost and his eyes were wild-looking, like the eyes of an animal in a trap.”

______44. Two Bit was suddenly there beside me, and for once his comical grin was gone and his dancing

gray eyes were stormy.”

______45. “One was screaming his head off, and Johnny yelled, ‘Shut-up! We’re goin’ to get you out!’“

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