Literary Terms
Literary Examples
Holes - Literary
Holes - Plot
Other
100
The people who are in a story.
Characters
100
Her smile was as bright as the sun.
Simile
100
Who is the main character (protagonist)?
Stanley Yelnats
100
What did Stanley get in trouble for "stealing"?
Sneakers
100
What is Stanley's nickname?
Caveman
200
Where and when a story takes place.
Setting
200
What happens in a story / story line.
Plot
200
What animal is a symbol of evil at Camp Green Lake.
Yellow-spotted lizards
200
Why does Mr. Pendanski say that Zero is called Zero?
"Because there is nothing inside his head" (19).
200
What is the name of Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather"?
Elya Yelnats
300
A comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as."
Metaphor
300
The bee buzzzzzed through the field.
Onomatopoeia
300
What is the setting of Holes? (include both parts of setting)
Camp Green Lake / modern times (last 50 years)
300
What animal did Stanley's great-great grandfather raise in order to marry Myra?
A pig
300
What is the name of the game we are playing right now?
Jeopardy
400
An exaggeration.
Hyperbole
400
My sister is a night owl.
Metaphor
400
What is the first thing Stanley finds while digging? (That was NOT interesting enough for the day off).
A fish fossil.
400
Who is the author of Holes?
Louis Sachar
500
Hints and clues about what might happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing
500
The trees gently brushed the sky. (TWO literary terms!)
Personification and hyperbole
500
BONUS: "Irony" is a literary term for something that is the exact opposite of what is seems. Why is Camp Green Lake an ironic name?
Because "there is no lake at Camp Green Lake," and there is very little green (3).
500
TRUE or FALSE. X-Ray is called X-Ray because it is pig latin for Rex.
True (53)
500
What is Rebecca's favorite literary device?
Zeugma!
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