Abeka American Literature Test 1 – Flashcards
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Stephen Vincent Benét
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Wrote a Creed for Americans
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What is an American
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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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American was Schoolmasters
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They taught the nation fairness, thrift, and the golden tongue
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The correspondence of sounds
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Rhyme
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The regular recurrence of sound
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Rhyme
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Daniel Webster
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Wrote Liberty and Union
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American Names
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I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at wounded knee
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Free verse
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Has no metrical pattern
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Carl Sandburg
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Wrote they have Yarns
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Artemis Ward
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Wrote My life Story
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Josh Billings
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Wrote The Bumblebee
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Dialogue
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Is the conversation between characters
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The plot
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The arrangement of incidents in a story
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Samuel Clemens
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Mark Twain's real name
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Mark Twain
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Wrote innocents abroad
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Will Rogers
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Wrote a collection of sayings, was Indian, and a oral humorists
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Simon Wheeler
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The narrator in the frog story
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End rhyme
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The reputation of the accented or stressed vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of lines of peotry
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Alliteration
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Is a type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonant sounds are the same
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Consonance
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The reputation of final consonant sounds
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Assonance
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The religion of vowel sounds
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Onomatopoeia
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Using words which sound like they mean
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America for Me
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Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars
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Rhyme
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The correspondence of sounds
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Rhythm
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The regular recurrence of sounds
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Cacography
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Misspellings
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Elizabeth Scott Stam
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Author of a Jingle of Words
