Literary Devices in The Outsiders
Point of view: This story is told in first person point of view. One can easily identify that the narrator is also a central character in the story because he uses the pronoun "I."
Narrator: the person who conveys the action of and often provides commentary about the story. Fourteen year old Ponyboy Curtis is the narrator of The Outsiders.
Flashback: occurs when a story begins at one point and then transports readers back to an earlier time of the story. This novel flashes back to previous events in the story to help readers understand the characters.
Symbolism: occurs when one concrete object represents itself as well as something else that is often more abstract, such as an emotion.
Theme: this is a central purpose of a novel which often reveals a lesson or observation about life; an important theme in the story is that friendship can be as strong a bond as family.
Foreshadowing: hints at future events in the story
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