The Outsiders Vocab and Literary Terms
Across
- 3. suffering from mental confusion
- 7. declared not guilty
- 8. feeling dismay or horror
- 9. in a persistent manner
- 12. literary conflict between a character and outside forces
- 15. in a pleading or begging way
- 18. strong belief
- 20. the result of a contrast between appearance or expectation and reality.
- 22. forewarning
- 23. wisely
- 25. wary; distrustful
- 26. a central message or insight conveyed in a work of literature.
Down
- 1. somber; dreary
- 2. conflict that takes place within the characters’ minds.
- 4. showing a lackof beliefAloofness: uninterested behavior
- 5. the way or ways in which a writer reveals information about a character.
- 6. OF VIEW the perspective from which a story is told
- 10. without stopping; continuously
- 11. confusion
- 13. disinterested
- 14. muscular strength
- 16. is the sequence of events in a story that are centered around a conflict.
- 17. impossible to understand completely
- 19. act of inhaling or breathing in
- 21. in a scornful manner
- 24. dashing andcourageous