Fall Final

Question 1

what are the 6 beliefs of puritan Literature?

Answer 1

1.) Supremacy of divine will.
2.) Depravity of man.
3.) Doctrine of the elect.
4.) free grace
5.) Predestination
6.) Theocratic government.

Question 2

What age of literature states you cannot separate life, law and the bible?

Answer 2

Puritan Literature

Question 3

who were the puritans?

Answer 3

A group of Protestants (Separatists) who were persecuted in England for their religious beliefs and moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony to freely practice their religion.

Question 4

Who were the non-separatists?

Answer 4

wanted to reform church of england from within

Question 5

Who wrote “From Plymouth Plantation”

Answer 5

William Bradford

Question 6

Where was william Bradford born and where was he Governor

Answer 6

born in Yorkshire, England and was Governor in Plymouth for 30 years

Question 7

Who wrote “To my Dear and Loving Husband” and “Upon the Burning of our House”

Answer 7

Anne Bradstreet

Question 8

Where was Anne Bradstreet born?

Answer 8

Northampton, England

Question 9

Who wrote Huswifery?

Answer 9

Edward Taylor

Question 10

Where was Edward Taylor born and where did he go to college

Answer 10

Coventry England and went to harvard

Question 11

who wrote Sinners in the hand of an angry God?

Answer 11

Jonathan Edwards

Question 12

Where was Jonathan Edwards born?

Answer 12

East Windsor, Connecticut

Question 13

Which author brought about the great awakening through his sermons?

Answer 13

Jonathan Edwards

Question 14

Who was president of Princeton University (Puritan Lit)

Answer 14

Jonathan Edwards

Question 15

what were four reasons for the decline of puritanism

Answer 15

1. Many non Puritans settled close by and the puritans could not convert them
2. The philosophy of Rousseau
3. Concept of capitalistic Government
4. Concept of democracy

Question 16

What’s deism?

Answer 16

Belief in a god but not in one that has a personal relationship with his creation

Question 17

What were common formats of Revolutionary Lit?

Answer 17

Pamphlets, Essays and Letters.

Question 18

Who wrote Letters from an American Farmer?

Answer 18

Crevecoeur

Question 19

Where was Crevecoeur born?

Answer 19

France

Question 20

What was Crevecoeurs focus in his writings

Answer 20

thoughts on American immigrants (melting pot)

Question 21

Who wrote Poor Richards almanac and The autobiography?

Answer 21

Benjamin Franklin

Question 22

Where was Ben Franklin born?

Answer 22

Boston

Question 23

What was Benjamin Franklin? (job)

Answer 23

Publisher, inventor, statesman, and writer

Question 24

Who wrote Speech in the Virginia Convention?

Answer 24

Patrick Henry

Question 25

how old was Patrick Henry when he joined the Virginia house of burgesses?

Answer 25

30

Question 26

Who wrote "The Crisis"?

Answer 26

Thomas Paine

Question 27

Where was Thomas Paine born?

Answer 27

Thetford, England

Question 28

Who was the crisis read to?

Answer 28

Washington's troops at valley forge

Question 29

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 29

Thomas Jefferson

Question 30

who was Thomas Jefferson, good friends with

Answer 30

Patrick Henry

Question 31

Who wrote Letters to her husband

Answer 31

Abigail Smith Adams

Question 32

What do Barbara Bush and Abigail Adams have in common?

Answer 32

Mothers and wives to US presidents

Question 33

Who wrote "to the right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth"

Answer 33

Phillis Wheatley

Question 34

Who wrote "The Devil and Tom Walker"?

Answer 34

Washington Irving

Question 35

What 3 things is Washington Irving still read today for?

Answer 35

1. Humor 2. fascination with supernatural occurrences 3. vivid depiction of local characters in American settings.

Question 36

Who wrote the mandan indian buffalo dance?

Answer 36

George Catlin

Question 37

What was George Catlins first career

Answer 37

Lawer

Question 38

Besides his writings what else was George Catlin known for?

Answer 38

Paintings of Native Americans

Question 39

Which Romantic author went to Harvard and was born in Cambridge?

Answer 39

Lowell

Question 40

Who wrote "The Chambered Nautilus" and "Old Ironsides"?

Answer 40

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 41

Who wrote "the tide rises, the tide falls" and "the cross of snow"

Answer 41

Henry Longfellow

Question 42

What sad event happened to Henry Longfellow and was the reason he wrote "The Cross of Snow"

Answer 42

His wife burned to death

Question 43

Who wrote Snowbound?

Answer 43

John Greenleaf Whittier

Question 44

all other fireside poets were urban, what was Whittier?

Answer 44

He was a rural poet

Question 45

What war had just been fought when Snowbound was published?

Answer 45

The Civil War

Question 46

Who wrote "the first snowfall"

Answer 46

James Russell Lowell

Question 47

what are some common concepts in romantic literature?

Answer 47

Focus on nature, Emotion, innocence, purity

Question 48

symbol

Answer 48

A thing that represents or stands for something else.

Question 49

external conflict

Answer 49

A struggle between a character and an outside force

Question 50

internal conflict

Answer 50

A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character

Question 51

irony

Answer 51

A contrast between expectation and reality

Question 52

point of view

Answer 52

the perspective from which a story is told

Question 53

paradox

Answer 53

A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

Question 54

Parallelism

Answer 54

Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning

Question 55

aphorism

Answer 55

A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.

Question 56

allusion

Answer 56

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

Question 57

Anaphora

Answer 57

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Question 58

sonnet

Answer 58

14 line poem

Question 59

alliteration

Answer 59

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Question 60

assonance

Answer 60

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 61

Consonance

Answer 61

Repetition of a consonant sound

Question 62

extended metaphor

Answer 62

the comparison between two things is exaggerated to deepen the description

Question 63

feet

Answer 63

Units of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 64

slant rhyme

Answer 64

rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same.

Question 65

Blank verse

Answer 65

unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 66

Enjambment

Answer 66

the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

Question 67

gothic literature

Answer 67

a form of literature used by Romantics to emphasize the bizarre and unusual, especially evident in horror stories

Question 68

fable

Answer 68

A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters

Question 69

analogy

Answer 69

A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

Question 70

tone

Answer 70

Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character