Abeka American Literature Test 1

What literary device does the poem "They Have Yarns" use?

free verse

What character of "The Nortorious Frog of Calaveras County" tells the story to the narrator?

Simon Wheeler

What is the correspondence of sounds?

rhyme

What is the regular recurrence of sounds?

rhythm

What is the repetition of vowel sounds?

assonance

What author was a famous oral humorist and part Indian?

Will Rogers

What literary device do "The Mule" and "The Bumblebee" use?

cacography

Wrote "A Creed for Americans"

Stephen Vincent Benet

wrote "Liberty and Union"

Daniel Webster

wrote "The Bumblebee"

Josh Billings

wrote "Reflections on American Life: A Collection of Sayings"

Will Rogers, Jr.

wrote "They Have Yarns"

Carl Sandburg

Wrote "My Life Story"

Artemus Ward

wrote "The Innocents Abroad"

Samuel Clemens

alliteration - an approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same

free verse - poetry having no metrical pattern

end rhyme - the repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the end of lines in poetry

onomatopoeia - words that sound like what they mean

What is the conversation between characters called?

dialouge*

What is the arrangement of incidents or events divided into a beginning, middle, and an end?

plot*

What is the pen name of Samuel Clemens?

Mark Twain*

WHAT IS THE TITLE OF THE QUOTE:

"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"

"I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee."

"American Names"

"Where the air is full of sunlight and the

flag is full of stars."

"America for Me"

"They taught the nation fairness,

Thrift, and the golden tongue."

"American Was Scholmasters"

ESSAY:

Explain the lines, "In words you have a weapon,/ More weighty than a gun---. " Include the title of the work, the author, and the theme.

"A Jingle of Words" by Elizabeth Scott Stam

The lines show the power of words, and how our words can sometimes be destructive and hurt more than a weapon can.

The theme of the poem is the love of words and the power of them.