Unit 2-American Humor and Legends Flashcards
What has no metrical pattern?
Free verse
Who wrote “They Have Yarns”?
Carl Sandburg
Who was the author whose known for his poems, songs, and his monumental biography of his greatest hero, Abraham Lincoln, and one of his best-known poems is “Fog”?
Carl Sandburg
Who wrote “My Life Story”?
Artemus Ward
Who was the author whose real name was Charles Farrar Browne, was one of the leading American humorists of the nineteenth century, and used puns, ridiculous misspellings, and incorrect grammar?
Artemus Ward
What is also called regional language, and is the words and pronunciations which are peculiar to a people in a certain section of a country or a certain class of people can be an effective means of making a character in a poem or story seem natural and true to life?
Dialect
What is a form of writing that is misspellings, faulty logic, faulty coordination, immature, choppy sentences, and poor paragraph development for a humorous effect?
Cacography
Who wrote “The Mule”?
Josh Billings
Who is the author whose real name was Henry W. Shaw, was a popular newspaper humorist, lecturer, and author of several books, uses cacography, faulty logic, poor grammar, and plays on words?
Josh Billings
Who wrote “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”?
Mark Twain
Who was the author whose pen name was Mark Twain who spent four years as a river boat pilot, and his writings are a good example of “local color”?
Samuel Langhorn Clemens
Who wrote “The Innocents Abroad”?
Mark Twain
Who wrote “Reflections on American Life: A Collection of Sayings”?
Will Rogers
Who was the humorist who was part Cherokee Indian?
Will Rogers
