Authors
What is the pen name of Samuel Clemens?
Mark Twain
What author as a famous oral humorist and part Indian?
Will Rogers
What is the regular recurrence of sounds?
rhythm
What literary technique does this quote use: "Clatter, pop, and bang"
onomatopoeia
What is the conversation between characters called?
dialogue
Who wrote The Innocents Abroad?
Samuel Clemens
What character of "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" tells the story of the narrator?
Simon Wheeler
What is the correspondence of sounds?
rhyme
What literary technique does this quote use: "Statues of the kings, ---...antiquated things."
end rhyme
What is the arrangement of incidents or events divided into a beginning, middle, and end?
plot
Who wrote "Liberty and Union"?
Daniel Webster
Who wrote "The Bumblebee"?
Josh Billings
What literary device does the poem "They Have Yarns" use?
free verse
What work is this quotation from: "They taught the nation fairness, Thrift, and the golden tongue."
America was Schoolmasters
Who wrote "My Life Story"?
Artemus Ward
Who wrote "Reflections on American Life: A Collection of Sayings"?
Will Rogers, Jr.
What is the repetition of vowel sounds?
assonance
What quote is this quotation from: "Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."
America for Me
What literary technique does this quote use: "A blare of bugles"
alliteration
Who wrote "They Have Yarns"?
Carl Sandburg
Who wrote "A Creed for Americans"?
Stephen Vincent Benet
What literary device do "The Mule" and "The Bumblebee" use?
cacography
What work is this quotation from:
"I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee."
American Names
What work is this quotation for: "The American is a new man, who acts up new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas and form new opinions."
What is an American