Stanley was not a bad kid. He was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. He’d just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-g reat-great-grandfather!

He smiled. It was a family joke. Whenever anything went wrong, they always blamed Stanley’s no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-g reat-great-grandfather.

—Holes,
Louis Sachar

Read this passage.

Even though Stanley had been wrongly accused of a crime, "he smiled." What does this tell you about Stanley's character?

Part b: which phrase from the text best support the answers to part a? a. “i don't want to talk to somebody when i go check in at an airport. i just either download the boarding pass to my phone or walk up to a kiosk and get it.” (paragraph 8) b. “you do not have to go far to find someone who disagrees with andrew mcafee, just around the corner to the office of another person at the same university.” (paragraph 11) c. “the set of things that machines do not do like humans is innumerable.” (paragraph 16) d. “you wonder if you're joining that long litany of voices who go down as having made the incorrect prediction one more time, but i think the facts are different this time.” (paragraph 23)

Which statements are true of an allegory? check all that apply. it is an extended metaphor. it has literal and symbolic meanings. it to communicate an abstract concept. it is an exact representation of actual events. it uses objects to represent a single characteristic. it has moral, social, religious, or political significance.

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