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literature test 1
literature
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| America for Me | poem shows love for America by comparing it to Europe |
| A Jingle of Words | poem that shows love and power of words |
| Crevecoeur | wrote What Is an American? |
| Coffin | wrote America was Schoolmasters |
| Elizabeth Scott Stam | missionary to China; wrote a Jingle of Words |
| Daniel Webster | statesman; Liberty and Union |
| rhyme | correspondence of sound |
| alliteration | initial sounds are the same |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| consonance | repetition of the final consonant sounds |
| onomatopeia | words that sound like what they mean |
| A Jingle of Words | "In words you have a weapon, More weighty than a gun--" |
| Portland Declaration | "The family is the living cell of every society." |
| American Names | "I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee" |
| America for Me | "Where the air is full of sunlight, and the flag is full of stars" |
| America Was Schoolmasters | "They taught the nation fairness, Thrift, and the golden tongue." |
| rhythm | regular recurrence of sound |
| Lowell | wrote The Nation and the Gospel |
| The Flag Goes By | "Hats off!" |
| Simon Wheeler | told the story in TNJFOCC |
| Jim Smiley | TNJFOCC character willing to bet on anything |
| Daniel Webster | name of the frog in TNJFOCC |
| preacher's wife | who Jim bet would die TNJFOCC |
| Is he dead? | question the tourists asked in The Innocents Abroad that drove the guide crazy |
| stories | in They Have Yarns, yarns are _______ |
| Sandburg | wrote They Have Yarns |
| Artemus Ward | wrote A Business Letter and My Life Story |
| Josh Billings | wrote The Bumblebee, The Mule |
| Samuel Longhorn Clemens | Mark Twain's real name |
| Will Rogers | famous for his quotes |
| Oklahoma | where Will Rogers was from |
| airport | what was named after Will Rogers in Oklahoma |
| Mark Twain | wrote The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
| free verse | poetry with no metrical pattern |
| cacography | intentional misspellings in literature |
| dialect | words peculiar to a particular region |
| dialogue | conversation between characters |
| plot | arrangement of events in stories; beginning, middle, end |
| Henry Van Dyke | wrote America for Me |
| Henry Holcomb Bennett | wrote The Flag Goes By |
| Stephen Vincent Benet | wrote A Creed for Americans and American Names |
| Kuehnelt-Leddihn | wrote The Portland Declaration |
| Mark Twain | wrote The Innocents Abroad |
| John Brown's Body | Benet's long poem about the Civil War as seen through the eyes of various ordinary Americans |
| Hector St. John de Crevecoeur | wrote Letters from an American Farmer, which gives a vivid account of colonial America |
| Maine | Coffin born where |
| end rhyme | repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of lines of poetry |
| Daniel Webster | said "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!" |
| The Nation and the Gospel | "The worst kind of religion is no religion at all." |
| Sandburg | wrote a biography of Lincoln |
| Charles Farrar Browne | Artemus Ward's real name |
| born in Maine, live in Indiana; 56 years old | characteristics in My Life Story |
| mule | animal that weighs the most, sells for the most |
| bumblebee honey | poorest kind of sweetmeats in the market |
| Angel mining camp | where Jim Smiley and Simon Wheeler met |
| horse, bull-pup, frog | Smiley's animals he bet on |
| Andrew Jackson | Smiley's dog |
| fought a dog with no hind legs | how did Smiley's dog die |
| 3 months | how long it took Smiley to teach the frog to jump |
| filled the frog with quail shot while Smiley went to get another frog | how did the stranger beat Smiley's frog and win the $40 bet |
| Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | books by Mark Twain |
| Michael Angelo | who the tourists thought everything in the museum was made by |
| Rome | where the museum the American tourists are at is |
| Ferguson | tour guide in The Innocents Abroad |
| The Ballad of the Boll Weevil | "Jus' a-lookin' for a home," |
| boll weevil | why the farmer no longer had a home |
| Oolagah, Indian Territory | what Oklahoma was when Rogers was brn their |
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