The Outsiders Anticipatory Set

What point of view is the novel?

• 1st person
• 3rd person objective
• 3rd person limited
• 3rd person omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the tone of the novel?

• The tone is realistic because the author tried to make her characters true to life.
• The tone is energetic because Ponyboy does not have any time to stop and think.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Read this excerpt from chapter 10:  
"I remembered his voice:   'I'd been carrying a heater. It ain't loaded, but it sure does help a bluff. '     It was only yesterday that Dally told Johny and me that.  But yesterday was years ago.  A lifetime ago. "
The highlighted text uses which figurative language device?

• hyperbole
• personification
• similie
• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

"It was quiet except for the sound of our feet on the cement and the dry, scraping sound of leaes blowing across the street."  Which figurative language device is being used here?

• assonance
• onomatopoeia
• imagery
• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

Read this sentence from chapter 7:  "Cant you two wait till I set the eggs down before you go shovin' me all over the country?"
Which figurative language device is being use here?

• hyperbole
• personification
• similie
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Read this sentence from Chapter 8.  "I could see that even a few words were tiring him out; he was as pale as the pillow and looked awful." 
Which figurative language device is being used here?

• similie
• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What are sunsets a symbol of in this novel?

• The anger between the Socs and the Greasers.
• The connection between Ponyboy and Cherry.
• The lighter side of Dallas's personality.
• The end of innocence.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

Read this sentence from chapter 7:  "Cant you two wait till I set the eggs down before you go shovin' me all over the country?"
Which figurative language device is being use here?

• hyperbole
• personification
• similie
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Read this sentence from Chapter 8.  "I could see that even a few words were tiring him out; he was as pale as the pillow and looked awful." 
Which figurative language device is being used here?

• similie
• onomatopoeia
• assonance
• flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

When the author gives a clue as to what might happen.

• plot
• setting
• foreshadowing
• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5