Starr mentions her father's theory that Harry Potter is about gangs, which I found really interesting: Daddy claims the Hogwarts houses are really gangs. They have their own colors, their own hideouts, and they are always riding for each other, like gangs.
The literary term would be an oxymoron. Oxymorons are “a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).”
I would've chosen cheap at first but then thrifty means being cheap and using it for a cause, not wastefully. So that's why it best fits that sentence. Hope this helps!
the male character is told to go into a house into the parlor, and there is the man ... The story was strange because of the theme behind the story, the fact ... “Continuity of the Parks”