Characters
He slept for twenty years.
Who is Rip Van Winkle
Written to be sung and to tell a story.
What is a ballad?
Its theme is the power of words.
What is "A Jingle of Words"?
Saving Stephen from the sea.
What is alliteration?
The author "Of Plymouth Plantation".
Who is William Bradford?
"Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain"
What is "The Author to Her Book"?
A verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun.
What is a gerund?
He was the chief who wanted to kill John Smith.
Who is Powhatan?
The arrangement of events in a story.
What is plot?
Its theme is motivation reveals character.
What is "The Great Carbuncle"?
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn't there
What is end rhyme?
The autor of "Rip Van Winkle".
Who is Washington Irving?
"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."
What is "An Escape from Alligators"?
A verbal that functions as an adjective.
What is a participle?
They found the Great Carbuncle.
Who are Matthew and Hannah?
The educator who complied America's first dictionary.
Who is Noah Webster?
Its theme is the poet's inadequacies.
What is "The Author to her book"
"Gallants, attend, and hear a friend
Trill forth harmonious ditty:
Strange things I'll tell, which late befell
In Philadelphia city.
What is a ballad?
The writer of "Poor Richard's Almanac".
Benjamin Franklin
"A nice Smith is still a Smith. You keep your eyes open, dear,--you'll see."
What is "The Unerring Instinct"?
A verbally that usually consists of "to" + a verb and can function as a noun, adjective, or adverb.
What is an infinitive?
He drowned trying to get to shore.
Who is the oiler?
The attitude of the narrator toward the subject or audience.
What is tone?
Its theme is the love of American places.
What is "American Names"?
"I ain't ne'er did hear talk like that."
What is dialect?
The author of "The Open Boat".
Who is Stephen Crane
"Being thus arrived in 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."
What is Of Plymouth Plantation?
He rounded the corner, he had to move quickly.
What is a run-on sentence?
He tried to get arrested.
Who is Soapy?
Rhythm occurring at regular intervals.
What is meter?
Its theme is God's amazing love.
What is "Meditation One"?
With a snip and a snap, and a creak and a crack.
What is onomatopoeia?
The author of The Innocents Abroad.
Who is Mark Twain?
"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!"
What is "The Courtship of Madam Winthrop"?
Modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb.
What is an adverb?
He was injured during a shipwreck.
Who is the captain?
This essay was written as a defense against humanistic philosophy.
What is "The Portland Declaration"?
"Life is like a box of chocolates."
What is a conceit
From AL, "Lord, blow thy coal, Thy love enflame me."
The author of "On Being Brought from Africa to America".
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
"It was hope...that whispers to the death-condemned even in the dungeons of the Inquisition."
What is "The Pit and the Pendulum"?
Modifies nouns or pronouns.
What is an adjective?
Tells sister-in-law that the Smith family is ruthless.
Who is Leonora Thorpe?
The pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry.
What is a foot?
His Achilles' heel is he always acts like such a Romeo.
What is an allusion?
From AL: "I blest the name that gave and took" alludes to the book of Job.
The author of "Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning."
Who is Mark Twain
"Boast not, proud English, of thy birth and blood, Thy brother Indian is by birth just as good."
What is A Key into the Language of America?
This is what we call the noun a pronoun is replacing.
What is an antecedent?
He recounted a frog story.
Who is Simon Wheeler?
The first American writer to become famous throughout the world.
Who is Washington Irving?
"Innovative New Bible Concordance Gives You Out-of-Context Verses to Justify Any Behavior."
What is satire?
This author wrote, "Lord, blow the coal, Thy love enflame me."
Who is Edward Taylor?
"For at midnight broke forth a light,
Which turned the night to day,
And speedily a hideous cry
Did all the world dismay."
What is The Day of Doom?
Early in the morning by the light of the dawning sun.
What is a fragment?