Holes
Stanley Yelnats is sent to this place after being wrongly accused of stealing sneakers.
What is Camp Green Lake?
The story takes place at a train station in this European country.
What is Spain?
This 14-line poem, often written in iambic pentameter, was made famous by Shakespeare.
What is a Sonnet?
The twelve men in the play serve in this legal role, responsible for deciding the defendant’s fate.
What is a jury?
This scientist is famous, anecdotally, as the man for whom an apple falling on his head changed the way we see the world forever.
Who is Issac Newton?
Camp Green Lake is located in this type of harsh, dry environment.
The story revolves around a conversation between a man and a woman about this difficult, unnamed decision.
What is an abortion?
This traditional Japanese form of poetry consists of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable structure.
What is a Haiku?
This word is used to describe people who lie under oath.
What is perjury?
Known as the "King of Rock and Roll," this musician became famous for songs like Jailhouse Rock and Hound Dog.
Who is Elvis Presley?
Kissing Kate Barlow became an outlaw after the town of Green Lake killed this man, whom she loved.
Who is Sam (the onion seller)?
The white elephants in Hemingway's story are an example of this literary device.
What is symbolism?
She wrote 'Mad Girl's Love Song'.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
At the beginning of the play, this is the initial vote count in favour of a guilty verdict.
What is 11 to 1?
This German composer, who became deaf later in life, wrote famous symphonies including Symphony No. 9 and Moonlight Sonata.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
The warden forces the boys to dig holes because she is secretly looking for this buried object.
What is Kissin' Kate Barlow's hidden treasure?
Hemingway's use of short, clipped dialogue with minimal narration is an example of this writing technique, which leaves much unsaid.
What is Iceberg Theory? (or subtext)
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:
What is Sonnet 18?
This elderly juror provides key insight into how an old witness may have exaggerated his testimony for attention.
Who is Juror 9?
ありがとうございま
What is thank you in Japanese? (Arigatogozaimas)
Stanley and Zero’s fate is connected to their ancestors because Stanley’s great-great-grandfather failed to keep this promise to Madame Zeroni.
What is carrying her up the mountain to drink from the stream?
The contrasting landscapes in the story—one side dry and barren, the other lush and fertile—symbolise these two conflicting choices faced by the woman.
What are having an abortion or keeping the baby?
This was the name of the ship Stephen Crane was on board when it sank, off the coast of Florida.
What is the SS Commodore?
This is the official legal standard the jurors must use to determine whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty.
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
This 1997 Radiohead album, featuring hits like Paranoid Android and Karma Police, is often considered one of the greatest albums of all time for its experimental sound and dystopian themes.
What is Ok Computer?