Unit 1- America for Me Flashcards
Who wrote “America for Me”?
Henry Van Dyke
Who wrote “The Flag Goes By”?
Henry Holcomb Bennett
Who wrote “A Creed for Americans”?
Stephen Vincent Benét
Who was the American poet and short story writer who is known for his major work “John Brown’s Body,” and his work “A Creed for Americans” warns against facism?
Stephen Vincent Benét
Who wrote “What is an American?”?
Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
What author was a Frenchman who settled on a farm in New York, wrote “What is an American?” to encourage immigration, and his best known work is “Letters from an American Farmer”?
Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
Who wrote “America Was Schoolmasters”?
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
What author earned the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and was known for his poetry, novels, and essays?
Robert P. Tristram Coffin
What is the correspondence of sounds?
Rhyme
What is the regular recurrence of sounds?
Rhythm
What is the repetition of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of lines of poetry?
End rhyme
What is a type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same, as in “tried” or “true,” and “safe” and “sorry”?
Alliteration
What is the repetition of final consonant sounds as in “first” and “last,” and “loves” and “lives”?
Consonance
What is the repetition of vowel sounds as in “mile,” “time,” and “mind,” where the long “i” sound is repeated?
Assonance
What uses words which sound like what they mean?
Onomatopoeia
