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Started a colony in Rhode Island

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Roger Williams

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Was elected president of the Rhode Island Colony in 1654

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Roger Williams

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Graduated from Cambridge

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Roger Williams

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Arrested and sentenced to deportation because of his convictions

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Roger Williams

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What were the convictions for which Roger Williams was convicted?

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  • denied the king’s right to give the colonists the Indian’s Land
  • insisted that no one should listen to a sermon from a minister of the church of England
  • though the oaths of loyalty could not be administered by the colonies, since the oaths were an act of service
  • civil government had authority only over people’s property and outward actions.
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separator of church and state

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Roger Williams

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Was Roger Williams open to preach to anybody?

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yes

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always used four lines in his stanzas

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Roger Williams

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what was The Courteous Pagan symbolic of?

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good manners and natural kindness

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couldn’t publish her works of literature because she was a woman

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Anne Bradstreet

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Roger’s most famous work of literature, that was popular in the new world and was used by many

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Bay Psalm book

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first colonist to write a sizable body of verse

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Anne Bradstreet

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wrote The Author to her Book

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Anne Bradstreet

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what did Anne Bradstreet compare the struggles of publishing poetry?

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Childbirth

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what does Anne refer to as her child?

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Herr book of poetry

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Wrote Contemplations

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Anne Bradstreet

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what is Anne’s main theme for Contemplations?

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Always give God the glory for the good and the bad

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What is the main thing that is being compared in Contemplations?

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The sun

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What is the sun being compared to, in contemplations?

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Pheobus (God), bride groom, strong man, animals, insects, earth.

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what does Anne personify, in contemplations?

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A tree. Even through battles we are to stay grounded in our roots ( our faith)

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what was Anne’s final response to God’s creation and beauty?

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To glorify God

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How does Anne feel, even after writing such great works of literature?

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foolish, embarrassed

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wrote Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning House

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Anne Bradstreet

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Main Theme of Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning House

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earthly riches cannot compare to the riches that await us in heaven.

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where does Anna say her comforts do not come from?
earthly possessions
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from whom does Anne say that her possessions came from?
God
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Wrote To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet
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Sailed to knew England because of religious persecution
Edward Taylor
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Harvard Graduate
Edward Taylor
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Wrote from God's determinations
Edward Taylor
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Town Physician
Edward Taylor
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was a meditational poet
Edward Taylor
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meditational poet
poet that meditates, thinks on things - writes prayers and devotions
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proved puritans could write good poetry
Edward Taylor
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minister/pastor in West field, Massachusetts
Edward Taylor
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started writing at the age of 40
Edward Taylor
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organized defences against the Indians
Edward Taylor
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wrote works of literature but weren't published 200 years after his death
Edward Taylor
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Wrote Meditation Six
Edward Taylor
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Poem in which author expresses his need for God and uses metaphors to explain them
Meditation 6
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Wrote Huswifery
Edward Taylor
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poem that is an expressed prayer in which the author asks the Holy Spirit to use the author for His glorification
Huswifery
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poem that is the history of redeemed man from the creation of Adam to the believers entrance to Heaven. Also, speaks about the lengths that God would go to save us, redemption for the sinner, and growth for the redeemed. The fall - man's attempt to free form God after the fall
God's determinations
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wrote Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
Edward Taylor
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what metaphor is used in Upon a Spider Catching a Fly?
spider catching a fly in his web, can relate to how Satan wants to catch us in his web.
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Yale graduate at the age of 17
Jonathan Edwards
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preacher at a Presbyterian church in New York City
Jonathan Edwards
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Tutored at Yale
Jonathan Edwards
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at what age did Jonathan Edwards convert to Christianity?
18
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served as a minister in North Hampton Massachusetts for 24 years
Jonathan Edwards
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assistant minister of his grandfather's church
Jonathan Edwards
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minister following his grandfather's death In 1729
Jonathan Edwards
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voted out of his ministry on 1750
Jonathan Edwards
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president of Princeton university
Jonathan Edwards
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wanted to discern between true faith and false religion.
Jonathan Edwards
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influenced authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
Jonathan Edwards
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provided a solution to man's fallen nature in his writings - redemption through Christ.
Jonathan Edwards
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wrote Sinners in the hands of an angry God
Jonathan Edwards
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when did Jonatahan Edwards preach Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
July, 8, 1741
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most famous sermon in American History
Sinners in the hands of an angry God
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Mohegan Indian, who converted to Christianity. Preacher teacher and judge to the native Americans. Known as the Father of American Literature.
Samson Occom
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Seneca Indian, rejected Christianity and signed a treaty with the United States that secured the six nations territory, known for His oratorical skills
Red Jacket
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regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.
Meter
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each two or three syllable unit.
Poetic foot
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contains one unstressed syllable followed by an stressed.
Iamb
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standard hymn meter.
Common meter ( Bay psalm book is an example)
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an imaginative comparison of two similar things, which can be implied or stated, brief of extended
Metaphor
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comparison using like or as
Simile
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giving human characteristics to non-living objects
Personification
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address to an absent person, abstraction or object
Apostrophe
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statement that seems to be self contradictory yet actually make sense when understood in the right context
Paradox
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explores intellectual and theological subjects
Metaphysical Poet
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a striking, often elaborate, comparison carried out in considerable detail
Conceit
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division of a poem based on thought, meter or rhyme
Stanza
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stanza containing two lines
Couplet
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stanza containing four lines
Quatrain
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stanza containing six lines
Sestet
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composed of lines of iambic pentameter rhymed in pairs
Heroic Couplet
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descriptive words of phrases that appeal to sense perceptions to create an impression
Imagery
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a work of non-fiction in which the author tells how own life story
Autobiography
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oral, public communication
Speech
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use of similar structure in two or more phrases, clauses and sentences
parallelism
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a question that requires no answer, because the answer is obvious.
Rhetorical question

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