A Beka American Literature Test 1 Grade 11 – Flashcards
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Who is the famous oral humorist and part Indian author?
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Will Rogers
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What character of "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavera's County" tells the story to the narrator?
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Simon Wheeler
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What is the repetition of vowel sounds?
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assonance
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What is the regular recurrence of sounds?
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rhythm
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What is the correspondence of sounds?
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rhyme
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What literary device does the poem "They Have Yarns" use?
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free verse
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What literary device does "The Mule" and "The Bumblebee" use?
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cacography
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"A Creed For Americans"
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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"Liberty and Union"
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Daniel Webster
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"My Life Story"
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Artemus Ward
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"Reflections on American Life: A Collection of Sayings"
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Will Rogers, Jr.
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"The Bumblebee"
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Josh Billings
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The Innocents Abroad
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Samuel Clemons
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"They Have Yarns"
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Carl Sandburg
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"statues of the kings, --... antiquated things."
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end rhyme
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"a blare of bugles"
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alliteration
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"Clatter, pop, and bang"
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onomatopoeia
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What is the pen name for Samuel Clemons?
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Mark twain
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What is the arrangement of incidents or events divided into a beginning, middle, and end?
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plot
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What is the conversation between characters called?
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dialogue
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"The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas and form new opinions."
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"What is an American"
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'I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee."
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"American Names"
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"Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars."
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"America for Me"
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"They taught the nation fairness, Thrift, and the golden tongue."
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"America Was Schoolmasters"
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Explain the lines, "In words you have a weapon,/ More weighty that a gun--." Include the title of the work, the author, and the theme.
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answers will vary but you should include "A Jingle of Words by Elizabeth Scott Stam, The lines show the powers of words, and The theme of the poem is the love of words and the power of them.
