Grammar
Vocabulary
Holes
Literary Elements
Poetry
100

Name the simple subject and simple predicate: "The cute but fierce porcupine attacked her dog."

What is...

simple subject: "porcupine"

simple predicate: "attacked"  ?

100

mirage

What is: an optical illusion in which water is seen on a flat surface?

100

Zero's real name (first and last).

What is Hector Zeroni?

100

The main problem the protagonist faces in a story.

What is conflict?

100

The repetition of words having the same sound at the end of a line in poems.

What is rhyme?

200

Find the direct object: "The student threw the ball to her teacher."

What is "ball?"
200

delirious

What is: unable to think or speak sensibly because of sickness, heat, etc.?

200

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?

200

The lesson or universal truth the protagonist or reader learns in a story. 

What is the theme?

200

A poetic device in which an animal, idea, or thing is given human characteristics.

What is personification?

300

Name the three types of verbs.

What are Action, Linking/Being, and Helping?

300

precipice

What is: a steep cliff on a mountain or on the edge of something big?

300

Squid does this during the night but denies it.

What is cries?

300

The type of character who undergoes a significant change and evolves throughout a story.

What is dynamic?

300

The repeated letters or sounds at the beginning of words.

What is alliteration?

400

An adverb can describe three parts of speech. Name them.

What are verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs?

400

tedious

What is: long, tiring, and boring because of repetition?

400

The sheriff says he "always get(s) drunk before a ____________."

What is a hanging?

400

A literary device in which an author develops a character through that character's actions, thoughts, what they say, etc. 

What is characterization?

400

A technique in which a word imitates or resembles a sound.

What is onomotopoeia?

500

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"   ?

500

precarious

What is: not safe or steady?

500

Name the author of Holes.

Who is Louis Sachar?

500

A literary device in which the author gives hints about what is to come later in the story.

What is foreshadowing?

500

A group of lines in a poem; a verse.

What is a stanza?