Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

H English III (version 2) > Fall Final > Flashcards

Fall Final Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
Q

what are the 6 beliefs of puritan Literature?

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

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

A

Puritan Literature

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

who were the puritans?

A

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.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Who were the non-separatists?

A

wanted to reform church of england from within

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Who wrote “From Plymouth Plantation”

A

William Bradford

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Where was william Bradford born and where was he Governor

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

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

A

Anne Bradstreet

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Where was Anne Bradstreet born?

A

Northampton, England

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Who wrote Huswifery?

A

Edward Taylor

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

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

A

Coventry England and went to harvard

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

who wrote Sinners in the hand of an angry God?

A

Jonathan Edwards

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Where was Jonathan Edwards born?

A

East Windsor, Connecticut

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Which author brought about the great awakening through his sermons?

A

Jonathan Edwards

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Who was president of Princeton University (Puritan Lit)

A

Jonathan Edwards

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

what were four reasons for the decline of puritanism

A
  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
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

What’s deism?

A

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

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

What were common formats of Revolutionary Lit?

A

Pamphlets, Essays and Letters.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Who wrote Letters from an American Farmer?

A

Crevecoeur

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Where was Crevecoeur born?

A

France

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

What was Crevecoeurs focus in his writings

A

thoughts on American immigrants (melting pot)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Who wrote Poor Richards almanac and The autobiography?

A

Benjamin Franklin

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Where was Ben Franklin born?

A

Boston

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

What was Benjamin Franklin? (job)

A

Publisher, inventor, statesman, and writer

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Who wrote Speech in the Virginia Convention?

A

Patrick Henry

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

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

A

30

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

Who wrote “The Crisis”?

A

Thomas Paine

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

Where was Thomas Paine born?

A

Thetford, England

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

Who was the crisis read to?

A

Washington’s troops at valley forge

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

A

Thomas Jefferson

30
Q

who was Thomas Jefferson, good friends with

A

Patrick Henry

31
Q

Who wrote Letters to her husband

A

Abigail Smith Adams

32
Q

What do Barbara Bush and Abigail Adams have in common?

A

Mothers and wives to US presidents

33
Q

Who wrote “to the right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth”

A

Phillis Wheatley

34
Q

Who wrote “The Devil and Tom Walker”?

A

Washington Irving

35
Q

What 3 things is Washington Irving still read today for?

A
  1. Humor
  2. fascination with supernatural occurrences
  3. vivid depiction of local characters in American settings.
36
Q

Who wrote the mandan indian buffalo dance?

A

George Catlin

37
Q

What was George Catlins first career

A

Lawer

38
Q

Besides his writings what else was George Catlin known for?

A

Paintings of Native Americans

39
Q

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

A

Lowell

40
Q

Who wrote “The Chambered Nautilus” and “Old Ironsides”?

A

Oliver Wendell Holmes

41
Q

Who wrote “the tide rises, the tide falls” and “the cross of snow”

A

Henry Longfellow

42
Q

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

A

His wife burned to death

43
Q

Who wrote Snowbound?

A

John Greenleaf Whittier

44
Q

all other fireside poets were urban, what was Whittier?

A

He was a rural poet

45
Q

What war had just been fought when Snowbound was published?

A

The Civil War

46
Q

Who wrote “the first snowfall”

A

James Russell Lowell

47
Q

what are some common concepts in romantic literature?

A

Focus on nature, Emotion, innocence, purity

48
Q

symbol

A

A thing that represents or stands for something else.

49
Q

external conflict

A

A struggle between a character and an outside force

50
Q

internal conflict

A

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

51
Q

irony

A

A contrast between expectation and reality

52
Q

point of view

A

the perspective from which a story is told

53
Q

paradox

A

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

54
Q

Parallelism

A

Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning

55
Q

aphorism

A

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

56
Q

allusion

A

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

57
Q

Anaphora

A

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

58
Q

sonnet

A

14 line poem

59
Q

alliteration

A

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

60
Q

assonance

A

Repetition of vowel sounds

61
Q

Consonance

A

Repetition of a consonant sound

62
Q

extended metaphor

A

the comparison between two things is exaggerated to deepen the description

63
Q

feet

A

Units of stressed and unstressed syllables

64
Q

slant rhyme

A

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

65
Q

Blank verse

A

unrhymed iambic pentameter

66
Q

Enjambment

A

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

67
Q

gothic literature

A

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

68
Q

fable

A

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

69
Q

analogy

A

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

70
Q

tone

A

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

H English III (version 2) (2 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions