Holes Characters
Name of the main character in Holes
Stanley Yelnats
What was Clyde Livingston's nick name?
Sweet Feet
What are nouns?
Words for people, places, things.
Who wrote the novel, Holes?
Louis Sachar
Which language technique compares 2 things using the words "like" or "as"?
Simile
Zero's real name (full name)
Hector Zeroni
What does Mr Sir like to eat constantly?
Sunflower seeds
What type of words are describing words?
Adjectives
How many STATES are there in Australia?
6
ACT & NT are territories so not counted
What language technique is used in the following sentence?
The road was a shiny satin ribbon in the moonlight.
Metaphor
The man whose shoes were stolen.
Clyde Livingston
What was the name of the boat that Stanley found?
Mary Lou
What are "doing" words called?
Verbs
How many stars are in our solar system?
One
(The sun!)
What technique is in the following example?
Big bears bellowed boldly.
Alliteration
Whose real name was Ricky?
Zig Zag
What bird is mentioned in the song that the Yelnats sing? (If only, if only)
Woodpecker
What type of words are "me" "him" "I" "you" etc?
Pronouns
What do we call animals that eat both meat and plants?
Omnivores
What language technique gives human qualities to non-human things?
Personification
The girl who Elya Yelnats fell in love with.
Myra Menke
The country where Elya Yelnats lived before he sailed to America.
Latvia
What do we call words that tell HOW something is done?
(Eg; The rain fell softly.
Adverbs
What animal does Merida's mum turn into in Brave?
A bear
Which language technique are these words examples of?
buzz whirr sizzle thump
Onomatopoeia