Puritans Test Flashcards
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Anne Bradstreet
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- 1650
- structure of poem
- has couplets
- a turn
- is traditional poetry
- is as tight and rule bound as her actual life
- was a Puritan
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Puritan time period
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1620-1750
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- 1850
- not a Puritan, had family who was Puritan
- most famous for the scarlet letter
- dealt with violations of the human heart
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Tone of young good man brown
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Critical
Negative
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Rhetoric
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The art of effective persuasion
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Ethos
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Appeal to values
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Pathos
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Appeal to emotions
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Logos
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Appeal to logic
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Edwards
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- minister/preacher
- 1750
- is a Puritan
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Miller
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- playwright
- 1950
- not a Puritan
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Pilgrims in America
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-left in sept. 1620 and arrived in nov.
-soldiers, laborers, and craftsmen
-weren’t familiar with land and many died of starvation
Salem was 20 miles north of Boston
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Pilgrims and witchcraft
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- witches were w/ the devil
- could conjure dead
- had familiars (animal shoed supernatural beings) to help them
- most common familiars were cats, dogs, mice, and bats
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Redemption
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- is a 2nd chance; forgiveness
- can be secular and religious
- is in Bradstreet’s poem, the sermon, YGB, and the crucible
