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SALTAmericanLitTest3
Study Helps for American Lit Test 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who is the educator who compiled America's first dictionary? | Noah Webster |
| Which character told his/her sister-in-law that the Smith family is ruthless? | Belinda Watson |
| Which poem expressed God's infinite, unconfined love? | "Meditation One" |
| Which artist painted Rip Van Winkle? | N.C. Wyeth |
| QUOTATION: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain" | "The Author to Her Book" |
| What literary type does this express? "Strange things I'll tell, which late befell/In Philadelphia city" | ballad |
| Of which literary term is this an example? "...to make the Future Free" | alliteration |
| QUOTATION: "I did not bid her draw off her glove as sometime I had done. Her dress was not so clean as sometime it had been. Jehovah jireh!" | "The Courtship of Madam Winthrop" |
| Who painted Paul Revere? | John Singleton Copley |
| What is the regular recurrence of rhythm? | meter |
| This foot has one accented and one unaccented syllable pattern. | trochee |
| Which poem depicted rebel soldiers trying to surprise the enemy? | "The Battle of the Kegs" |
| Which character was injured during a shipwreck? | captain |
| Which essay was written as a defense against humanistic philosophy? | The Portland Declaration |
| What literary term denotes a reference to mythology, history, or a literary work? | allusion |
| Which poet describes the loss of a child in "A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.D., an Infant of Twelve Months?" | Phillis Wheatley |
| Which character was the narrator of a frog story? | Simon Wheeler |
| Which poet expressed his/her inadequacies in "The Author to Her Book"? | Anne Bradstreet |
| Which character feared he would be killed by Powhatan? | John Smith |
| Which artist painted "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"? | John Singer Sargent |
| QUOTATION: "A slight noise attracted my notice, and, looking to the floor, I saw several enormous rats traversing it." | "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| "Cackle, crackle, yowl, and yap" is an example of what literary term? | onomatopoeia |
| This foot has two accented syllables in its pattern. | spondee |
| What was America's first textbook called? | the New England Primer |
| Who was the most widely read poet of Puritan New England? | Michael Wigglesworth |
| Which character slept for 20 years? | Rip Van Winkle |
| Which poem expressed the longing to be home in America? | "America for Me" |
| Which artist painted The Fall of the Cowboy? | Frederic Remington |
| QUOTATION: "For at midnight broke forth a light,/which turned the night to day,/And speedily a hideous cry/did all the world dismay" | The Day of Doom |
| Which literary term is depicted in "...the light did spy,/...my heart did cry"? | end rhyme |
| What is unrhymed iambic pentameter called? | blank verse |
| This foot has one unaccented and one accented in its syllable pattern. | iamb |
| Who was the first American writer to become famous throughout the world? | Washington Irving |
| Which character tried to get arrested? | Soapy |
| Which artist painted Homecoming? | Norman Rockwell |
| QUOTATION: "Boast not, proud English, of thy birth and blood,/Thy brother Indian is by birth as good" | A Key into the Language of America |
| Which literary term is depicted in "The bumblebee iz a kind ov big fly"? | dialect |
| Which author tried to court Madam Winthrop? | Samuel Sewall |
| Which author was a botanist? | William Bartram |
| Which author made a difficult journey to New York? | Sarah Kemble Knight |
| This foot has two unaccented syllables and one accented syllable in its pattern. | anapest |
| Which author dealt with themes of sin and guilt in his/her works? | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Which character drowned trying to get to shore? | the oiler |
| Which artist painted Hoosick Falls in Winter? | Grandma Moses |
| QUOTATION: "They struck their jaws together so close to my ears as almost to stun me, and I expected every moment to be dragged out of the boat and instantly devoured." | "An Escape from Alligators" |
| Which poet signed the Declaration of Independence? | Francis Hopkinson |
| Which character(s) found the Great Carbuncle? | Matthew and Hannah |
| QUOTATION: "Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean." | Of Plymouth Plantation |
| Who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac? | Benjamin Franklin |
| Who wrote "Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning?" | Mark Twain |
| What was the first book printed in America? | The Bay Psalm Book |
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