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       The OutsidersTest

                     Test Contents

                                                  Reading Portion
                                  1) Fiction/Nonfiction/Historical Fiction
                                    2) Static and Dynamic Characters
                                                3) Point of View
                                                   4) Conflicts
                                           5) Figurative Language
                                             6) Foreshadowing
                                               7)  Vocabulary

Online Review -- Reading Portion

  1)  Do you know the difference between fiction and nonfiction? 
     After looking at the definition of these terms, play
this game for some extra practice!
                        
                                                                                                            


2)  Do you know the difference between static and dynamic characters?
                         Who are the static characters, and who are the dynamic characters in The Outsiders? 

                         Think about two characters like Ponyboy and Sodapop.  Which one would you say is static,
                         and which one is dynamic?

3)  Who is telling the story?  From whose perspective are we getting this information?  Whose point of view is this?
     Here are a couple choices: 
First Person Point of View
                                              
Third Person Limited Point of View
                                              
Omniscient Point of View
     If you're really interested, this is a YouTube video 
on all the different points of view. 
     Now, can you tell what point of view is used in The Outsiders?

4)  All good stories have a conflict.  In fact, longer pieces, like The Outsiders, tend to have several conflicts
.
     You have a reference sheet for conflicts in your three-ring binder.  
     Can you identify some conflicts (Other than greasers vs Soc and Darry vs Pony) in this novel?

5)  Writers use figurative language to make their writing more interesting.  
     You have a reference sheet for figurative language in your three-ring binder.  
     You also wrote a figure of speech poem.  Feel free to watch this figurative language YouTube clip for review.
                                
                  Similes compare two things using the words like, as, and than
                  Metaphors also compare two things, but they don't use like, as, and than like similes do.  They make more direct comparisons.
                  Personification is a human element put into something not human.  When we use personification we make something like a PERSON.
                  Hyperbole is exaggeration used to create an emotional effect.                                
                  Symbolism
is the final figure of speech we talked about.  With symbolism, a writer makes a deeper connection by having an object represent                                                something else. 
                  Alliteration is a repetition of consonant sounds.  (Refer to the Robert Frost poem for examples of symbolism and alliteration.)


6)  Writers will often include
foreshadowing to create suspense.  These clues keep the reader interested in what will take place later in the story.  For example, at        the end of Chapter Two, Ponyboy talks about how the Socs have it so good.  He ends the chapter with this line: 
                
"I really couldn't see what Socs would have to sweat about--Good grades, good cars, good girls, madras and Mustangs and Corvairs--Man, I                    thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky. I know better now" (Hinton 36).
     
     His last sentence is an example of foreshadowing.  By suggesting that he knows "better" now, we can assume his opinions about Socs here change.  Later,          we seet his views do, indeed, change.  The change doesn't take place until later in the book, but this last line is an early hint that change is coming.
                            
     Try this one out.  At the end of Chapter Three, Pony and Johnny cool off in the park for a while. Pony decides to just go home and face Darry, who had                 just slapped him.  This exchange ends the chapter:
                                      "
Let's walk to the park and back.  Then maybe I'll be cooled off enough to go home."
                                     "Okay," Johnny said easily.  "Okay."
                                     "Things gotta get better, I figured.  They couldn't get any worse.  I was wrong" (52).


     As readers, we wonder what Pony means when he says, "I was wrong." This foreshadows the events of the very next chapter.  In fact, things do get                    much worse for Ponyboy in Chapter Four.  Do you remember what happens?  

7)  Students are responsible for the following vocabulary terms on the test:
             Formal
             Informal
             Thesis Statement
             Topic Sentence
             Context
             Quotation
             Citation
             Commentary
             Characterization
             Direct Characterization
             Indirect Characterization
             Infer
             Race
             Culture

             Gallant

Helpful Hint:   The Reading Selections are taken from Chapters 2, 3, and 10. 

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