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1
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Wrote America for me

A

Henry van Dyke

2
Q

Write American names

A

Stephen Vincent benet

3
Q

Wrote the nation and the gospel

A

James Russell lowell

4
Q

The family is the living cell of every society

A

The Portland doctrine

5
Q

“They taught the nation fairness, thrift, and the golden tongue”

A

Coffin

6
Q

A type of approximate rhyme in which initial consonance sounds at which are the same

A

Alliteration

7
Q

Using words which sound like what they mean

A

Onomatopoeia

8
Q

The correspondence of sounds

A

Rhyme

9
Q

The nation and the gospel

A

Lowell

10
Q

Bury my heart at wounded knee

A

Benet

11
Q

In words you have a weapon

A

Stam

12
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Stephen Vincent benet wrote the line “Bury my heart at Wounded Knee”

A

True

13
Q

“In words you have a weapon,/ More weighty than a gun—“ is written by Elizabeth Scott Stam

True or false

A

True

14
Q

“Oh London a mans town, there’s power in the air; And Paris is a woman’s town, with flowers in her hair;”

A

Rhyme

15
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“I like the gardens of Versailles with flashing fountains filled;”

A

Alliteration

16
Q

“Clatter, pop, bang, scrape, and creak, and snarl, and snort”

A

Onomatopoeia