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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 genres?
After looking at the definition of these terms, play this game for some extra practice!
What is science fiction?
What is historical fiction?
What is realistic fiction?
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.
TAKE ME TO PART TWO OF THE TEST REVIEW!
After looking at the definition of these terms, play this game for some extra practice!
What is science fiction?
What is historical fiction?
What is realistic fiction?
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.
TAKE ME TO PART TWO OF THE TEST REVIEW!