The Outsiders Ch. 10-12

Read this excerpt from chapter 10: “I’d go home and walk by the lot, and Johnny would be sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette, and maybe we’d lie on our backs and watch the stars. He isn’t dead, I said to myself. He isn’t dead. And this time my dreaming worked. I convinced myself that he wasn’t dead.” Based on this excerpt, what part of plot is going on now?

• conflict

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

Which writing technique is being used in the excerpt from question #1 “I’d go home and walk by the lot, and Johnny would be sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette, and maybe we’d lie on our backs and watch the stars. He isn’t dead, I said to myself. He isn’t dead. And this time my dreaming worked. I convinced myself that he wasn’t dead.”?

• imagery (descriptions that target 5 senses)

• full-circle ending (end brings you back to the beginning)

• repetition for effect

• personification (giving non-living things human-like characteristics)

After Ponyboy got a ride home, how was the gang in his living room acting?

• They were tired and sore.

• They were laughing and bragging.

• They were serious and planning their next move.

• They were quiet and trying to forget their failure.

Why did Dally take the loss of Johnny so hard?

• He never lost a friend before.

• He never thought Johnny would die.

• Johnny was related to him by blood; they were cousins.

• Johnny was the only person in the world he had ever loved.

Read this excerpt from chapter 10: “I remembered his voice: I’d been carryin’ a heater. It ain’t loaded, but it sure does help a bluff. It was only yesterday that Dally told Johnny and me that. But yesterday was years ago. A lifetime ago.”

Which figurative language device is being used with the underlined words?

• hyperbole (exaggeration)

• personification (giving non-living things human-like characteristics)

• simile (comparing 2 unalike things using "like" or "as")

• imagery (descriptions that target our 5 senses)

Read this excerpt from chapter 10: “I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.” How do we know that Dally meant to die?

• He left behind a note explaining that he was going to take his life.

• He pointed an unloaded gun at the police and knew they would shoot him.

• He told the doctor in the hospital not to treat his wounds with antibiotics.

• He charged the police with the switchblade and knew they would shoot him.

Read this excerpt from chapter 10: “Someone cried, ‘Glory, look at the kid!’” And the ground rushed up to meet me very suddenly. What is meant by the underlined words?

• Ponyboy fainted.

• Ponyboy took a nap.

• Ponyboy ran away.

• Ponyboy followed the road.

What caused Ponyboy’s symptoms?

• an infection

• exhaustion, shock, and mild concussion

• virus, shock

• skin disease, large concussion

How did Ponyboy get hurt?

• He fell down and hit his head.

• He fell off of his motorcycle.

• He broke his back in the fire.

• He got kicked in the head by a Soc.

Read this excerpt from chapter 10: “Southern gentlemen with big black eyes in blue jeans and T-shirts...” Who is Ponyboy referring to with this metaphor?

• himself

• Dally

• Johnny

• Soda