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Puritain/writers/literaryterms Flashcards

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Community guided in all aspects by the bible

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City upon a hill

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The puritans hoped to establish a _______

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City upon a hill

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The chosen form of government would be a ____ for the puritans

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Theocracy

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A state under the immediate guidance of God

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Theocracy

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The puritans arrived at Plymouth in …?

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1620

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Bay psalms book was published in…?

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1640

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The ____ book was the first published book on this continent

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Bay psalm

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In ____ the tenth muse published

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1650

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In ____ the Salem witchcraft trials began (also when puritans fizzled out)

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1692

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The great awakening begins in ___?

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1741

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Name some things that the puritans believed in?

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Limited atonement, predestination, total depravity, irresistible grace

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The idea that Jesus’s sacrifice had earned Gods forgiveness, or grace, only for the few “elect”

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Limited atonement

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The idea that at the beginning of time an omnipotent God predestined who would be saved

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Predestination

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The idea that all men were born corrupted by original sin

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Total depravity

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The idea that the election of any man is ordained by God. No man could earn his way into heaven by good works

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Irresistible grace

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America’s first poet was…

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Anne Bradstreet

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Anne Bradstreet arrived in America in ____.

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1630

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Anne brad streets famous work was entitled ____.

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The tenth muse lately sprung up in America

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Bradstreets poetry expresses two important Puritan themes:____ and ____.

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God and domestic life

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To restate in your own words

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Paraphrase

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Two lines that rhyme, the line has about ten syllables and every other one is stressed

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Iambic couplet

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Word choice and it indicates the poets style

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Diction

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Anne brad streets poetry shows what style?

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Puritan plain style

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The arrangement of words in sentences

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Syntax

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The type of syntax in which the sentence elements are placed out of normal position

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Sentence inversion

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___ ____ was one of the group of puritans who believed the Church of England was corrupt. They fled to holland to North America

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William Bradford

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Who was elected governed of Plymouth thirty times?

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William Bradford

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_____ established good relations with the native Americans (waponog Indians)

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William Bradford

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28
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William Bradford wrote_____.

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Of Plymouth plantation

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_______ is the only account of the voyage to America on the mayflower

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O Plymouth plantation

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30
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Of Plymouth plantation was not published until more than ____ years after it was written

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200

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Puritan plain style is characterized by …?

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Short words direct statements and references to ordinary everyday objects

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____ ____ was called “the first American” because he is considered America’s first millionaire

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Benjamin Franklin

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Franklin invented…

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The swim fin the 1st fire department in Boston the lightning rod odometer bifocals daylight savings time and a rocking chair that swatted flys

34
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Benjamin Franklin signed …?

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The declaration of ind.

the treaty with France the peace treaty with England and the constitution

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A short saying with a message

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Aphorism

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Franklin wrote ___ _______ it describes his rise from poverty to affluence it was written at the urging of his friends and was never completed

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The auto biography

37
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___ ____ ____ was an annual publication that contained information observations and advice. It was very funny and profitable written by Franklin

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Poor Richards almanac

38
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____ ____ was one of the most powerful and persuasive Puritan ministers

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Jonathan edwards

39
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Who entered Yale college at age 13 and graduated valedictorian of his class?

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Jonathan edwards

40
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Jonathan Edwards was largely responsible for the ___ ____

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Great awakening

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___ ____ was dismissed from the church at Northampton because of his passionate convictions about grace

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Jonathan edwards

42
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Who was elected president of Princeton university but died a few days after taking office

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Jonathan edwards

43
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Formal public speaking and is almost always persuasive

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Oratory

44
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Speech given from a pulpit usually in a house of worship and in colonial America it was the most popular literary form

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Sermon

45
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When a writer makes reference to another price of literature the he knows the reader will understand

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Allusion

46
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The original model from which something was made adds a deeper dimension for listeners

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Archetyoes

47
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“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”- was said by

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Patrick Henry

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The author of two of the most fiery speeches of the revolution

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Patrick Henry

49
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Who was elected governed of Virginia five times?

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Patrick Henry

50
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Author of the Virginia constitution and led the movement to add a bill of rights

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Patrick Henry

51
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Accused of treason when he delivered his fiery denunciation of the stamp act and his response was “if this be treason, make the most if it!”

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Patrick Henry

52
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Repetition of grammatical structure

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Parallelism

53
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What are the five elements of persuasion?

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Repetition, restatement parallelism rhetorical questions and allusion

54
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3rd president if the us

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Thomas Jefferson

55
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Who founded the university of Virginia, was a skilled violinist, and was an art enthusiast

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Thomas Jefferson

56
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Who established the public school system, designed his own home, invented the dumb waiter, and created the decimal system for American money

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Thomas Jefferson

57
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_____ ____ personal library became the basis for the library of congress

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Thomas Jefferson

58
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Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the nation by making ___ _____ ___

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The Louisiana purchase

59
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Jefferson’s home was called the ____.

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Monticello

60
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Was the most influential document in American history details the philosophy of the colonial revolutionaries and outlines their experiences with a tyrannical king (written by Jefferson)

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The Declaration of Independence

61
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Writing that presents an argument, or message meant to get readers to think or act in a certain way

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Persuasive

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Persuasive writing appeals to…?

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Emotion logic ethics and authority

63
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_____ _____ was not really an American he was born in England

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Thomas Paine

64
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Paine came to America in ____ because of Franklins urging

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1774

65
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Thomas Paine wrote ____ ____. It was a 47-page pamphlet that favored revolution. Published in 1776

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Common sense

66
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Thomas Paine wrote ___ that was 16 essays

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The crisis

67
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___ ____ was read aloud to Washington’s troops before crossing the Delaware river

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The crisis

68
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After his death ___’s grave site was vandalized and no one knows what became of the body

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Paine

69
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After the American revolution Paine became involved in the French Revolution and wrote ____ ____ ____ _____.

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The rights of man

70
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_____ was imprisoned for pleading against the execution of the French king

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Paine

71
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While in prison Paine wrote ___ ___ ____ ____ an attack on organized religion which angered Americans

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The age of reason

72
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Style if writing with three characteristics: rhythm slight alliteration an balance

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Aphoristic

73
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When a writer compares two similar situations implying that the outcome of one will resemble the outcome of the other

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Argument by analogy

74
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Words that contain strong connotations likely to produce an emotional response

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Changed words

75
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Errand into the wilderness means

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To create a place free to worship

76
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The general overall message

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Theme

77
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An example of ____ is how Paine likens the king of England to a common theif

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Argument by analogy

78
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What is the main purpose if Patrick Henry’s speech in the Virginia convention

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To encourage the Virginia house of burgesses to arm the militia

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