American Literature Exam- Units#1-#5

Question 1

What literary term would be used in this quote?:
“Oh, London is a man’s town,
there’s power in the air;
And Paris is a woman’s town,
with flowers in her hair.”

Answer 1

Rhyme

Question 2

What literary term would be used in this quote?:
“I like the gardens of Versailles
with flashing fountains filled;”

Answer 2

Alliteration

Question 3

What literary term would be used in this quote?:
“Clatter, pop, and bang,
Scrape, and creak, and snarl, and snort,”

Answer 3

Onomatopoeia

Question 4

“America for Me” was written by…

Answer 4

Henry Van Dyke

Question 5

“American Names” is written by…

Answer 5

Stephen Vincent Beńet

Question 6

“The nation and the Gospel” was written by…

Answer 6

James Russell Lowell

Question 7

Who said, “They taught the nation fairness,/Thrift, and the golden tongue”?

Answer 7

Robert P. Tristram Coffin

Question 8

Who wrote the line “Bury my heart at Wounded Knee”?

Answer 8

Stephen Vincent Benét

Question 9

Who wrote the lines “In words you have a weapon,/More weighty than a gun–”?

Answer 9

Elizabeth Scott Stam

Question 10

What selection includes the line “The family is the living cell of every society”?

Answer 10

The Portland Declaration

Question 11

What author was a famous oral humorist and part Indian?

Answer 11

Will Rogers

Question 12

What character of “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” tells the story to the narrator?

Answer 12

Simon Wheeler

Question 13

What is the repetition of vowel sounds?

Answer 13

Assonance

Question 14

What is the regular recurrence of sounds?

Answer 14

Rhythm

Question 15

What is the correspondence of sounds?

Answer 15

Rhyme

Question 16

What literary device does the poem “They Have Yarn” use?

Answer 16

Free verse

Question 17

What literary device do “The Mule” and “The Bumblebee” use?

Answer 17

Cacography

Question 18

Who wrote “A Creed for Americans”?

Answer 18

Stephen Vincent Benét

Question 19

Who wrote “Liberty and Union”?

Answer 19

Daniel Webster

Question 20

Who wrote “My Life Story”?

Answer 20

Artemus Ward

Question 21

Who wrote “Reflection on American Life: A Collection of Sayings”?

Answer 21

Will Rogers, Jr.

Question 22

Who wrote “The Bumblebee”?

Answer 22

Josh Billings

Question 23

Who wrote The Innocents Abroad?

Answer 23

Samuel Clemens

Question 24

Who wrote “They Have Yarns”?

Answer 24

Carl Sandburg

Question 25

What literary term would be used in this quote: "Statues of the kings-...antiquated things"?

Answer 25

End rhyme

Question 26

What literary term would be used in this quote: "a blare of bugles"?

Answer 26

Alliteration

Question 27

What literary term would be used in this quote: "Clatter, pop, and bang"?

Answer 27

Onomatopoeia

Question 28

What is the pen name of Samuel Clemens?

Answer 28

Mark Twain

Question 29

What is the arrangement of incidents or events divided into a beginning, middle, and end?

Answer 29

Plot of the story

Question 30

What is the conversation between characters called?

Answer 30

Dialogue

Question 31

Match the quotation with the correct work: "The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas and form new opinions."

Answer 31

"What Is an American?"

Question 32

Match the quotation with the correct work: "I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee."

Answer 32

"American Names"

Question 33

Match the quotation with the correct work: "They taught the nation fairness, Thrift, and the golden tongue."

Answer 33

"America was Schoolmasters"

Question 34

Match the quotation with the correct work: "Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."

Answer 34

"America for Me"

Question 35

Who wrote "A Jingle of Word"?

Answer 35

Elizabeth Scott Stam

Question 36

What was the name of the main character in "The Cop and the Anthem"?

Answer 36

Soapy

Question 37

Who wrote "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

Answer 37

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 38

What was the pen name of William Sidney Porter?

Answer 38

O. Henry

Question 39

Who wrote "The Town Poor"?

Answer 39

Sarah Orne Jewett

Question 40

In "The Town Poor", whom did Mrs. William Trimble and Miss Rebecca Wright visit?

Answer 40

Ann and Mandany Bray

Question 41

What author is known for his use of surprise endings?

Answer 41

O. Henry

Question 42

What event is the setting of "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

Answer 42

The Spanish Inquisition

Question 43

The ridicule of human folly is called...

Answer 43

Satire

Question 44

The perspective from which a story is told is called...

Answer 44

Point of view

Question 45

An expression in which the intended meaning of the words used is the direct opposite of their usual sense is called...

Answer 45

Irony

Question 46

How many men were in "The Open Boat"?

Answer 46

Four

Question 47

Which of the four men in the boat was injured?

Answer 47

The captain

Question 48

Who wrote "The Open Boat"?

Answer 48

Stephen Crane

Question 49

According to the author of "The Open Boat," what controls men?

Answer 49

Fate

Question 50

Who wrote "The Great Carbuncle"?

Answer 50

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 51

What is the theme of "The Great Carbuncle"?

Answer 51

Motivation shows character

Question 52

In "The Open Boat," which crew member died at the end of the story?

Answer 52

The oiler

Question 53

What was the Great Carbuncle?

Answer 53

A gem

Question 54

Who died after discovering the Great Carbuncle?

Answer 54

The Seeker

Question 55

After discovering the Great Carbuncle, who rejected it?

Answer 55

Matthew and Hannah

Question 56

The poem that describes the rebels trying to sneak into the city of Philadelphia is...

Answer 56

"The Battle of the Kegs"

Question 57

The poem that expressed God's love as unconfined and overflowing is...

Answer 57

"Meditation One"

Question 58

The poem that gives a striking picture of the Judgment Day is called...

Answer 58

The Day of Doom

Question 59

"The Courtship of Madam Winthrop" was written by...

Answer 59

Samuel Sewall

Question 60

The quote "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain" was written by...

Answer 60

Anne Bradstreet

Question 61

Written to be sung and to tell a story

Answer 61

Ballad

Question 62

Strongly exaggerated simile or metaphor

Answer 62

Conceit

Question 63

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Answer 63

Blank verse

Question 64

Reference to mythology, history, or literary work

Answer 64

Allusion

Question 65

Pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry

Answer 65

Foot

Question 66

A correspondent who wrote about his shipwreck is "The Open Boat"

Answer 66

Stephen Crane

Question 67

First American short story writer

Answer 67

Washington Irving

Question 68

Introduced the detective story

Answer 68

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 69

Used the surprise ending

Answer 69

O. Henry

Question 70

Well-known novelist and playwright who wrote "The Unerring Instinct"

Answer 70

Thornton Wilder

Question 71

wrote "Town Poor"

Answer 71

Sarah Orne Jewett

Question 72

What is the ridicule of human folly with the purpose of correcting it?

Answer 72

Satire

Question 73

What is the attitude of the narrator toward his subject or audience?

Answer 73

Mood

Question 74

What is the perspective from which a story is told?

Answer 74

Point of view

Question 75

A husband and wife take precautions against a storm

Answer 75

"Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning"

Question 76

a man sleeps for twenty years

Answer 76

"Rip Van Winkle"

Question 77

a woman plays a practical joke on her sister-in-law

Answer 77

"The Unerring Instinct"

Question 78

rats chew off a prisoner's ropes

Answer 78

"The Pit and the Pendulum"

Question 79

two elderly sisters are forced to leave their home

Answer 79

"The Town Poor"

Question 80

a man tires to get arrested for the winter

Answer 80

"The Cop and the Anthem"

Question 81

Saying the opposite of what is meant

Answer 81

Verbal irony

Question 82

Author presenting character without comment

Answer 82

Objective point of view

Question 83

All-knowing author as narrator

Answer 83

Omniscient point of view

Question 84

The events and occurrences of a story

Answer 84

Plot

Question 85

time, place, and background of a story

Answer 85

setting

Question 86

meaning of a story

Answer 86

theme

Question 87

Quote from what works? "A nice Smith is still a Smith. You keep your eyes open dear--you'll see."

Answer 87

"The Unerring Instinct"

Question 88

Quote from what works? "no considerations of Mediterranean cruises...Three months on the Island was what his soul craved."

Answer 88

"The Cop and the Anthem"

Question 89

Quote from what works? "a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

Answer 89

"Rip Van Winkle"

Question 90

Quote from what works? "It was hope that prompted the nerve to quiver--the frame to shrink."

Answer 90

"The Pit and the Pendulum"

Question 91

Quote from what works? "I wish to my heart 't was to-morrow mornin' a'ready, an' I a-startin' for the secl'men"

Answer 91

"The Town Poor"

Question 92

Quote from what works? "from the hour when two mortals had shown themselves so simply wise..., its splendor waned."

Answer 92

"The Great Carbuncle"

Question 93

Quote from what works? "the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on the shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters."

Answer 93

"The Open Boat"