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Literary Terms
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100
What sport does Clyde Livingston play?
baseball
100
Whom does Zero choke because he was bullying and beating up Stanley?
Zigzag
100
What is the name of Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather"?
Elya Yelnats
100
The people who are in a story.
characters
100
Who is the author of Holes?
Louis Sachar
200
How did Kate Barlow die?
A yellow-spotted lizard bit her leg (123).
200
What is the name of Stanley's father's foot odor invention?
Sploosh
200
What is Zero's real name?
Hector Zeroni
200
"It was as if they had been walking across the flat bottom of a giant frying pan..." This is an example of what literary device?
simile
200
What was the name of Stanley's lawyer?
Ms. Morengo
300
Why does Zero confess to Stanley about stealing the shoes?
Zero felt guilty. He wanted to make sure Stanley knew the truth in case he died. Confessing brought Zero some relief (174).
300
How did Zero survive in the desert before Stanley found him?
He found shade under the old "Mary Lou" boat and drank "sploosh."
300
Stanley's great-grandfather "found refuge on..."?
"...God's thumb" or Big Thumb
300
What is the setting of Holes? (include both parts of setting)
Camp Green Lake / modern times (within the last 50 years)
300
What is the name of the game we are playing right now?
Jeopardy!
400
TRUE or FALSE The jewels in the suitcase were worth over $3 million.
False. "...the jewels were of poor quality, worth no more than twenty thousand dollars" (228).
400
At the end of the story, what is Camp Green Lake supposed to become in a few years?
A Girl Scout camp
400
Who is the new kid assigned to Group D, and how did he get his nickname?
Brian or "Twitch" "...because he was always fidgeting" (was arrested for stealing a car)
400
"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).
400
Stanley Yelnats's name is the same both forward and backward. What is this called?
palindrome
500
What did Stanley and Zero do with their money?
Stanley bought his family a new house with a laboratory in the basement. Zero hired a team of private investigators (228).
500
Why didn't the yellow-spotted lizards attack Stanley and Zero when they came back for the treasure?
The lizards don't like "onion blood," and Stanley and Zero had survived by eating only onions.
500
The Warden's last name is Walker. Who else in the story has this last name?
Trout and Linda Walker
500
"Behind them the sky had turned dark, and for the first time in over a hundred years, a drop of rain fell into the empty lake." What literary device can be found in the above statement?
Symbol The rain (water) is a symbol of new beginnings, a fresh start. Water often symbolizes rebirth.
500
What is Rebecca's hometown? (city and state)
Portland, Oregon