Holes
Zero's real name
Hector Zeroni
Name of Colin's seriously ill brother
Luke
Type of poem shown in:
Autumn breeze whispers
Golden leaves dance on the ground
Silent sky turns gray
Haiku
'tragic', 'disaster', 'terrible' are examples of this type of language
Emotive language
The five senses a writer can use in descriptive language
Sight, Smell, Touch, Taste, Sound
Where Stanley is sent to for punishment
Camp Green Lake
First person Colin gets to try and help cure his brother
The Queen
The type of poetry without hard rules on structure or form
Free verse
The technique used in the line "I have told you a million times!"
Hyperbole
The three-part rule used to build tension or suspense in a story
Pebble-Rock-Boulder
It turns a bad boy into a good boy / to build character
Why Colin and Ted get along when they first meet
They both say the word 'cancer'
The type of poetry where a word is made using the first letter of each line
Acrostic
The technique in the line "the classroom was a zoo"
Metaphor
What is the technical name for the main character of a story?
The Protagonist
The man Katherine Barlow falls in love with
Sam
Sweet treat Colin and Ted give to cheer up the other people at the hospital
Chocolate frogs
The ANZAC Day poem "For the Fallen" is an example of this type of poem
Ode
The technique in the line "My alarm clock screams at me every morning."
Personification
The part of a story where the action reaches its peak or where the character faces their greatest challenge
The camper Stanley gets in a fight with
Zigzag
Gift Colin gives Alistair before leaving London
His pocket knife
The author of the sonnet 'How do I love thee', initials EBB
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The name AND correct spelling of the technique used for words representing sounds like 'Bang', 'meow', 'crack'
Onomatopoeia
Give me a sentence to show a character is nervous without using the words "nervous", "afraid", "scared" or "anxious"
He could feel his heart pounding in his chest as he wiped his sweaty palms on his pants.