Grammar
Name the simple subject and simple predicate: "The cute but fierce porcupine attacked her dog."
What is...
simple subject: "porcupine"
simple predicate: "attacked" ?
mirage
What is: an optical illusion in which water is seen on a flat surface?
Zero's real name (first and last).
What is Hector Zeroni?
The main problem the protagonist faces in a story.
What is conflict?
The repetition of words having the same sound at the end of a line in poems.
What is rhyme?
Find the direct object: "The student threw the ball to her teacher."
delirious
What is: unable to think or speak sensibly because of sickness, heat, etc.?
The dimensions of the holes that the boys are required to dig at Camp Green Lake.
What is five feet wide by feet feet deep?
The lesson or universal truth the protagonist or reader learns in a story.
What is the theme?
A poetic device in which an animal, idea, or thing is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
Name the three types of verbs.
What are Action, Linking/Being, and Helping?
precipice
What is: a steep cliff on a mountain or on the edge of something big?
Squid does this during the night but denies it.
What is cries?
The type of character who undergoes a significant change and evolves throughout a story.
What is dynamic?
The repeated letters or sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
An adverb can describe three parts of speech. Name them.
What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?
tedious
What is: long, tiring, and boring because of repetition?
The sheriff says he "always get(s) drunk before a ____________."
What is a hanging?
A literary device in which an author develops a character through that character's actions, thoughts, what they say, etc.
What is characterization?
A technique in which a word imitates or resembles a sound.
What is onomotopoeia?
Name the simple subject, simple predicate, and three prepositions: "Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go."
What is...
simple subject: "we"
simple predicate: "go"
three prepositions: "over, through, to" ?
precarious
What is: not safe or steady?
Name the author of Holes.
Who is Louis Sachar?
A literary device in which the author gives hints about what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A group of lines in a poem; a verse.
What is a stanza?