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Amer Lit Salt
ch 1-5 test
Question | Answer |
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Which story tells of a man trying to get arrested for the winter? | The Cop and the Anthem |
Rhythm occurring at regular intervals is called... | meter |
Who painted "Rip Van Winkle"? | N C Wyeth |
Which poem expresses God's infinite , unconfined love? | Meditation One |
what is alliteration? | the repeating of the same beginning sound or letter in a line of words |
What was "The Portland Declaration" essay written as a defense against? | humanistic philosophy |
Who found the Great Carbuncle? | Matthew and Hannah |
Who was the artist who painted " Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"? | John Singer Sargent |
What is important about the Bay Psalm book? | It was the first book PRINTED in America |
What is unrhymed iambic pentameter called? | blank verse |
What is the syllable pattern for spondee? | two accented |
Which author writes using themes of sin and guilt? | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Which story tells of 4 shipwrecked men rowing toward shore? | "The Open Boat" |
Poetry which has no metrical pattern is called ... | Free verse |
Who was the first American writer to become famous throughout the world? | Washington Irving |
...Violets are blue, ... I love you, is an example of what type of rhyme? | End rhyme |
Snap, pop, yap, and crackle are examples of what? | Onomatopiea |
Who wanted to kill John Smith? | Powhatan |
Who was the most widely read poet of Puritan New England? | Michael Wigglesworth |
In "The Open Boat" who drowned trying to get to shore? and what was ironic about that? | The oiler... it was ironic because he was the most physically fit of all the men. |
In this story rebel soldiers try to surprise the enemy... | "The Battle of the Kegs" |
Who is the author of "Mrs McWilliams and the Lightning"? | Mark Twain |
" Boast not proud English, of thy birth and blood, Thy brother ?Indian is by birth as good." is a quote from...? | A key into the language of America |
What poem gives a striking picture of the Judgment Day? | "The Day of Doom" |
What is a poetic "foot"? | the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry |
Which poet signed the Declaration of Independence? | Frances Hopkinson |
who painted "The Homecoming"? What is it depicting? | Norman Rockwell, A soldier returning home |
Who slept for twenty years? | I would like to after JH but "no it wasn't me"... Rip Van Winkle |
Who narrated a frog story? | Simon Wheeler |
The Fall of the Cowboy was painted by... | Frederick Remington |
In what poem does the author express their own inadequacies? | "The author to her book" |
Who tells her sister-in-law that the Smith family is ruthless? | Belinda Watson |
Who wrote "Poor Richard's Almanac"? | Benjamin Franklin |
Who wrote about the loss of a child in "A funeral Poem on the Death of C.E."? | Phyllis Wheatley |
Who was injured during a ship wreck? | the captain |
In what poem does the author long to be home in America? | "America for Me" |
Who painted "Hoosick Falls in Winter"? | Grandma Moses |
What is dialect? | Using regional language for expression: words and pronunciations that are peculiar to a people in a certain section of a country ie... "The bumblebee iz a kind ov big fly" |
What is a ballad? | one of the earliest literary forms...it is written to be sung or recited and it tells a story of some exciting episode... mostly deals with love,and courage ie "Strange things I'll tell, which late befell/ In Philadelphia city" |
The educator who compiled America's first dictionary... | Noah Webster |