Unit 1 & 2 Flashcards
What is local color writing?
Writing about the specific culture of a country
Consonance
The repetition of final consonant sounds (first and last, loves and lives)
Who wrote “What is an American”, Letters From an American Farmer, and coined the term “melting pot”?
Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur
Who wrote “A Creed for Americans”?
Stephen Vincent Benét
Rhyme
The correspondence of sounds
Who wrote “America for Me”?
Henry Van Dyke
What does “melting pot” mean?
A metaphor to signify the blending of different cultures in American history.
Rhythm
The regular recurrence of sounds
Who wrote “A Creed for Americans”, John Brown’s Body, and won a Pulitzer Prize for it?
Stephen Vincent Benét
End rhyme
The repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of lines of poetry
Who wrote “America Was Schoolmasters”?
Robert P. Tristan Coffin
Who wrote “A Jingle of Words”, was a missionary to China, and was martyred by Chinese Communists?
Elizabeth Scott Stan
Onomatopoeia
Using words which sound like what they mean
“Growl,” “hiss,” “pop”
What is free verse?
No metrical pattern
What is cacography?
Intentionally misspelled words
What is dialect?
The spoken language of a region.
Alliteration
A type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same
(Tried and True, Safe and Sorry)
Who wrote “They Have Yarns”, and won a Pulitzer Prize for his poems and the biography of Abraham Lincoln?
Carl Sandburg
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds. (Mile, Time, and mind. Long “i”.)(beach, easy, and leaf. Long “e” sound)
Who wrote “My Life Story”, “A Business Letter”, and was America’s first stand up comedian?
Artemis Ward
What was Artemis Ward’s real name?
Charles Farrar Browne
Who wrote “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and spent 4 years as a riverboat pilot in the Mississippi?
Mark Twain
Who wrote “The Mule” and “The Bumblebee” and had the famous quote, “I believe the Bible…”
Josh Billings
What was Mark Twain’s real name?
Samuel Clemmens
What was Josh Billings real name?
Henry W. Shaw
Who said I believe all the Bible is true?
Josh Billings
Personification
A comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or animal.
Imagery
The use of words which appeal to our senses.
