Literary Element
Holes Chapters 1-5
Literary Elements II
Holes Chapters 6-20
Literary Elements III
100
The Time and Place of the story
What is Setting
100
like me or not
i don't
100
Some kind of message about life from topics such as bravery, friendship, freedom...
What is theme
100
It was short and cold.
What is the showers at camp green lake.
100
Author writes to inform, entertain, or persuade.
What is Author's Purpose?
200
The Problem or Struggle in the story
What is Conflict
200
Campers do not want to get bitten by this.
What is a yellow-spotted lizard.
200
A figure of speech using like or as to compare two unlike things.
What is a Simile
200
they fell from teh freeway overpass on his head.
What is the pair of sneakers.
200
The car screeched boom and crashed against mooing cows.
What is Onomatopoeia?
300
The people or animals in a story who are involved in some kind of struggle
What is Character?
300
Overweight
What does Stanley look like?
300
The clouds were a soft pillow upon which I laid my head.
What is a Metaphor
300
A fossil of a fish.
What is the item Stanley found in his hole.
300
The story of a person's life told by himself or herself in the first-person point of view.
What is Autobiography?
400
Includes sequence of events from beginning, middle and end.
What is a Plot
400
An Inventor
What is Stanley's father's job?
400
The waves climbed and roared thunderously against the shore
What is personification
400
Work for the F.B.I.
What is the work Stanley wanted to do when he is older.
400
The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
What is Alliteration?
500
When you make an educated guess to what will happen next and you draw logical conclusions from the details.
What is inference
500
It is spelled both forward and backward
What is a palindrome or Stanley Yelnats name?
500
The overall mood or emotion of a work of literature.
What is Atmosphere
500
Stanley and his family blamed bad luck and misfortune on this family member
Who is His no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
500
Conversations between characters.
What is dialogue?
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