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SALTAmericanLitTest1
Study Helps for American Lit Test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was a Presbyterian minister who wrote "America for Me"? | Henry Van Dyke |
| Who was the author of John Brown's Body and "American Names"? | Stephen Vincent Benet |
| Who wrote Letters from an American Farmer? | Hector St. John de Crevecoeur |
| Which poet wrote about the sea and fields around his home in Maine? | Robert P. Tristram Coffin |
| Which poet was a missionary to China and became a martyr? | Elizabeth Scott Stam |
| Who was a Christian statesman and brilliant orator from New England who wrote "Liberty and Union"? | Daniel Webster |
| Who wrote A Fable for Critics and "The Nation and the Gospel"? | James Russell Lowell |
| Definition: the correspondence of sounds | rhyme |
| Definition: the regular recurrence of sounds | rhythm |
| Definition: the most obvious type of rhyme which is the repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of lines of poetry | end rhyme |
| Definition: a type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same | alliteration |
| Definition: the repetition of final consonant sounds | consonance |
| Definition: the repetition of vowel sounds | assonance |
| Definition: the literary term associated with using words which sound like what they mean | onomatopoeia |
| Which painting was used for America's Bicentennial Postage Stamp in 1976? | Spirit of '76 |
| Who was a self-taught artist who began painting rural art in her seventies? | Grandma Moses |
| Which painting illustrates a blue-collar worker participating in a town meeting? | Freedom of Speech |
| Who painted Freedom of Speech? | Norman Rockwell |
| Who painted The Pioneer's Home? | Currier and Ives |
| Quotation: "Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars." | "America for Me" |
| Quotation: "I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. / Bury my heart at Wounded Knee." | "American Names" |
| Quotation: "The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas and form new opinions." | "What Is an American?" |
| Quotation: "They taught the nation fairness, / Thrift, and the golden tongue." | "America Was Schoolmasters" |
| Quotation: "The family is the living cell of every society." | The Portland Declaration |
| Narrator of "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" | Simon Wheeler |
| Character in "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" who was willing to bet on anything? | Jim Smiley |
| Which poet was known for his biography of Abraham Lincoln and his poems "Chicago," "Fog," and The People, Yes? | Carl Sandburg |
| What was the pen name and character of humorist Charles Farrar Browne? | Artemus Ward |
| What was the pen name of Henry W. Shaw, a popular newspaper humorist, lecturer, and author? | Josh Billings |
| What is Mark Twain's real name? | Samuel Clemens |
| Who is the author of "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"? | Mark Twain |
| Who was the humorist who was part Native American and was famous for his homespun philosophy? | Will Rogers |
| Definition: poetry having no metrical pattern | free verse |
| Definition: the words and pronunciations which are peculiar to a people in a certain section of a country or a certain class of people | dialect |
| Definition: the conversation between characters | dialogue |
| Definition: the arrangement of incidents or events which can be divided into a beginning, middle, and end | plot |
| Who portrayed the pioneering spirit of the western movement in Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap? | George Caleb Bingham |
| Which artist is known for his nineteenth century illustrations of the American West? | Frederic Remington |
| Who painted The Fall of the Cowboy? | Frederic Remington |
| Quotation: "Any way that suited the other man would suit him - any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied." | "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" |
| Quotation: "I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead." | The Innocents Abroad |
| Who wrote it? "The Innocents Abroad" | Mark Twain |
| Who wrote it? "A Creed for Americans" | Stephen Vincent Benet |
| Who wrote it? "A Jingle of Words" | Elizabeth Scott Stam |
| Who wrote it? "America for Me" | Henry Van Dyke |
| Who wrote it? "American Names" | Stephen Vincent Benet |
| Who wrote it? "America Was Schoolmasters" | Robert P. Tristram Coffin |
| Who wrote it? "Liberty and Union" | Daniel Webster |
| Who wrote it? The Portland Declaration | Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn |
| Who wrote it? "The Nation and the Gospel" | James Russell Lowell |
| Who wrote it? "The Flag Goes By" | Henry Holcomb Bennett |
| Who wrote it? "They Have Yarns" | Carl Sandburg |
| Who wrote it? "My Life Story" | Artemus Ward |
| Who wrote it? "A Business Letter" | Artemus Ward |
| Who wrote it? "The Mule" | Josh Billings |
| Who wrote it? "The Bumblebee" | Josh Billings |
| Who wrote it? "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" | Mark Twain |
| Who wrote it? Reflections on American Life: A Collection of Sayings | Will Rogers |
| Who painted Hoosick Falls in Winter? | Grandma Moses |
| Quotation: "The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas and form new opinions." | "What is an American?" |
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