English 1121 Flashcards
Four guidelines for selecting and reading literature:
- Exercise discipline and control over what you allow to come into your mind
- Distinguish between the foolishness of this world and the wisdom of God
- Reject that which glorifies sin
- Read what is profitable for spiritual growth
A gift from God?
Language
Rules for correct speech and writing?
Grammar
A collection of the writings of a group of people?
Literature
First period of American literature?
Colonial Period
First book printed in the New World?
The Bay Psalm Book
John Smith wrote ____
A True Relation
William Bradford wrote ____
Of Plymouth Plantation
People who wanted to purify the church from within
Puritans
People who left the church because it was corrupt
Separatists
The first elementary schoolbook in the New World
The New England Primer
John Winthrop wrote ____ and ____
Journal; Christian Experience
Person who wrote “Day of Doom”
Michael Wigglesworth
Person who wrote “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America”
Anne Bradstreet
Person who wrote “Housewifery”
Edward Taylor
Person who wrote “Magnalia Christi Americana”
Cotton Mathers
Person who wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Jonathan Edwards
Person who translated of the Bible into the languages of the Massachusetts
John Eliot
Person who wrote the best American verse of the seventeenth century
Anne Bradstreet
Person who wrote the longest poem of the Colonial Period
Michael Wigglesworth
Best known preacher of the Colonial Period
Jonathan Edwards
“apostle to the Indians”
John Eliot
A complete sentence must have a ____, whether ____, and ____, often called the ____
subject; stated or understood; predicate; verb
What is a sentence fragment?
A group of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence
