Authors
Who is Will Rogers, Jr.?
"They taught the nation fairness,
Thrift, and the golden tongue" is a quote from this poem.
What is "America was Schoolmasters"?
Conversation between characters is this
What is dialogue?
This literary device was used in the poem "They Have Yarns."
What is free verse?
This was Samuel Clemens's pen name.
What is Mark Twain?
Wrote "Liberty and Union."
Who is Daniel Webster?
"The American is a new man, who ats upon new principles; he must therfore entertain new ideas and form new opinions" is a quote from this essay.
What is "What is an American?"
The arrangement of incidents or events divided into a beginning, middle and end is this
What is plot?
This literay device was used in the poems "The Mule" and "The Bumblebee."
What is cacography?
Will Rogers was a famous oral ___________ and part _________.
What is humorist and Indian?
Wrote "They Have Yarns."
Who is Carl Sandburg?
"Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars" is a quote from this poem.
What is "America For Me"?
The repetition of vowel sounds is this
What is assonance?
"Clatter, pop, bang" is an example of this literary device.
What is onomatopoeia?
This author wrote the story "The Innocents Abroad."
Who is Samuel Clemens?
Wrote "A Creed for Americans."
Who is Stephen Vincent Benet?
"I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee" is a quote from this poem.
What is "American Names"?
The correspondence of sounds is this
What is rhyme?
"...statues of the kings...antiquated things" is an example of this literary device.
What is end rhyme?
This character told the story to the narrator of "The Notorius Jumping Frog of Calaveras County."
Who is Simon Wheeler?
*Double Jeopardy*
Wrote "My Life Story."
Wrote "The Bumblebee."
Must answer BOTH correctly.
Who is Artemus Ward?
Who is Josh Billings?
The regular recurrence of sounds is this
What is rhythm?
"A blare of bugles" is an example of this literary device.
*Double Jeopardy*
The quote "In words you have a weapon, more weighty than a gun" is from this poem.
This author wrote it.
The theme is this.
What is "A Jingle of Words"?
Who is Elizabeth Scott Stam?
What is the power of words?