Threads of the Tale
"In words you have a weapon, more weighty than a gun."
A Jingle of Words
This famous oral humorist was part Cherokee Indian
Will Rogers
The repetition of vowel sounds
assonance
Artemus Ward begins this piece with "I was born in the State of Maine to parents"
My Life Story
Another word for regional language
dialect
"They taught the nation fairness, thrift, and the golden tongue."
America Was Schoolmasters
This author of "A Creed for Americans" believes political freedom implies economic responsibility
Stephen Vincent Benet
rhythm
While traveling through Europe, Samuel Clemens wrote this humorous musing of an ornery tourist
The Innocents Abroad
"a blare of bugles" highlights this literary term
alliteration
"Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars"
America for Me
This author of "Liberty and Union" shares a name with a notorious frog
Daniel Webster
The correspondence of sounds
rhyme
The character Simon Wheeler tells his story to the narrator in this iconic story by Mark Twain
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
"Clatter, pop, and bang" are examples of this literary term
onomatopoeia
"I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee."
American Names
This author believes "the smartest thing about the bumblebee iz their stinger"
Josh Billings
This literary device used in the poem, "They Have Yarns," has no metrical pattern.
free verse
Elizabeth Scot Stam wrote this jingle celebrating the weight of words
A Jingle of Words
The pen name of Samuel Clemens
Mark Twain
"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
This author, most famous for his biography on Lincoln, uses free verse to describe Americans' humorous and outlandish "Yarns"
Carl Sandburg
The literary device used in "The Mule" and "The Bumblebee" that features misspellings and faulty logic
cacography
Carl Sandburg wrote in this tale: "When the wind was with him his whiskers arrived a day before he did."
They Have Yarns
The arrangement of incidents or events divided into a beginning, middle, and end in a story
plot