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Literary Elements
Literary Elements II
Literary Elements III
Literary Elements IV
Literary Elements V
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The Time and Place of the story
What is Setting
100
The land was barren and desolate. He could see a few run down buildings and some tents.
What is imagery
100
Some kind of message about life from topics such as bravery, friendship, freedom...
What is theme
100
Camp Green Lake once danced in the heart of Texas.
What is personification.
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
Zero drew a diagram in the dirt.
What is alliteration.
200
A figure of speech using like or as to compare two unlike things.
What is a Simile
200
Holes is written in which point of view.
3rd person omniscient
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
Rec room, it should have been called a Wreck Room.
What is an oxymoron.
300
The clouds were a soft pillow upon which I laid my head.
What is a Metaphor
300
When Holes jumps back and forth between Stanley's and Madam Zeroni's story.
What is a flashback.
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
Getting a nickname means that you are being accepted by the other campers.
What is symbolism
400
The waves climbed and roared thunderously against the shore
What is personification
400
Stanley's mouth was as dry and parched as the lake.
What is a simile.
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
Time flies when you're having fun.
What is an idiom
500
''Because we've got the only water for a hundred miles''.
What is hyperbole.
500
My fingers are little magnets.
What is a metaphor
500
Conversations between characters.
What is dialogue?