Test 1 Units 1 and 2 Flashcards
Author of a biography about Abraham Lincoln
Carl Sandburg
Romantic poet, essayist and literary critic
James Russell Lowell
Christian statesman and orator
Daniel Webster
Poetry, novels and essays about the sea and fields of Maine
Robert P. Tristram coffin
Minister, writer, professor and diplomat
Henry van dyke
Frenchman who wrote about colonial America
Hector St. John de crevecoeur
Pen name of Charles farrar Browne
Artemus ward
Pen name of Henry W. Shaw
Josh Billings
Famous oral humorist; part Indian
Will Rogers, Jr.
“…statues of the kings-…antiquated things”
End rhyme
“A blare of bugles”
Alliteration
“Clatter, pop, and bang”
Onomatopoeia
The arrangements of incidents or events divided into a beginning, middle and end”
Plot
The story “the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county” is told by…
Simon wheeler
Artemus ward and josh Billings were both successful at using….
Dialect
Poetry which has no metrical pattern is called…
Free verse
Lithographs of 19th century America were painted by…
Currier and Ives
“A creed for Americans”
Stephen Vincent benet
“Liberty and union”
Daniel Webster
“The Bumblebee”
Josh Billings
“The fall of the cowboy”
Frederick Remington
“Reflections on American life: A collection of saying”
Will Rogers, Jr.
“Hoosick Falls in winter”
Grandma Moses
“They have Yarns”
Carl Sandburg
“My life story”
Artemus Ward
“Freedom of speech”
Norman Rockwell
“Innocents abroad”
Samuel Clemens
What is the pen name of Samuel Clemens
Mark Twain
Who wrote John browns body?
Stephen Vincent benet
What is an American?
The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must, therefore, entertain new ideas and form new opinions”
