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Will Rogers
What author was a famous oral humorist and part Indian
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Simon Wheeler
What character of "The Nortorious Frog of Calaveras County" tells the story to the narrator
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assonance
What is the repetition of vowel sounds
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rhythm
What is the regular recurrence of sound
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rhyme
What is the correspondance of sound
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free verse
What literary device does the poem "They Have Yarns" use
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cacography
What literary device do "The Mule" and "The Bumblebee" use
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Stephen Vincent Benet
Who wrote "A Creed for Americans"
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Daniel Webster
Who wrote "Liberty and Union"
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Josh Billings
Who wrote "The Bumblebee"
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Will Rogers, Jr.
Who wrote "Reflections on American Life: A Collection of Sayings"
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Carl Sandburg
Who wrote "They Have Yarns"
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Artemus Ward
Who wrote "My Life Story"
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Samuel Clemens
Who wrote "The Innocents Abroad"
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end rhyme
What literary device is used in this quote: "statues of kings, --- ...antiquated things."
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alliteration
What literary device is used in this quote: "a Blare of Bugles"
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onomatopoeia
What literary device is used in this quote: "Clatter, pop, and bang"
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Mark Twain
What is the pen name of Samuel Clemens
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plot
What is the arrangement of incidents or events divided into a beginning, middle, and end?
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dialouge
What is the conversation between characters called
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"What Is an American"
What is the tital of the quote: "The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas and form new opinions."
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"American Names"
What is the tital of the quote: "I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee."
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"America for Me"
What is the tital of the quote: "Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."
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"American Was Schollmasters"
What is the tital of the quote: "They taught the nation fairness, Thrift, and the golden tongue."
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Words hurt pthers more that a weapon can. Someone can build people up, or tear them down. "A Jingle of Words" by Elizabeth Scott Stam.
Essay: Explain the lines, "In words you have a weapon,/ More weighty than a gun---. " Include the tital of the work, the author, and the theme.
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