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English test
p.9,23-24, 28-30, 31-40, 41-43, 55-57, 61-62, 69-70
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| oral tradition cultural knewledge passed down mouth from one generation from one another | oral tradition |
| a story that uses supernatural forces or beng to explain an aspect of life or the natural world and that was once held to be true by a culture | myth |
| a story that humans experience world wide | archetypes |
| what are John Smith's achievements? | he was the colonial leader of James town. his journal(books and pamplets) were the foundation of american litterature. wrote about difficult times in the colony |
| what is historical narrative? | a historic event with real characters that existed |
| what are persuasive appeals? | arguments intended to appeal to a person's logical, emotional, or ethical sensibilities |
| what is an author's tone? | his attitude towards a subject |
| what are William Bradford's achievements? | was a separatist since when he was young. was a colonial Gobernor of New England. recorded a chronicle entitled of Plymouth plantation. |
| what is plain style? | used to describe much of puritan literature because of its clarity, simplicity, and scarecity of elaborate figurative expression |
| what are allusions? | reference to people, places, events or works of literature |
| what are biblical allusions? | reference to people, places, events, or passages from the bible from the bible |
| what are classical allusions? | references to writings of ancient |
| what are John Winthrop? | was c alled the leader of Great Migration. shaper of the Puritan Canopy(build new world based on God's moral laws). he was called the Historian of puritan society because he kept important events that happened. |
| what is typology? | interpretation of events, people, places, and ceremonies of the Old Testament as signs which prefigure Christ's fulfillment of Profecy and his covenant with the church. |
| what was Wintrop's writing style? | opposite of Bradford's style(informal, more emotional) |
| what was Bradford's writing style? | formal, emotionless, and impersonal |
| what were Roger Williams's convictions and contention? reasons. number 1 and 2 | was deported from Massachusetts Bay because of 4 reasons. 1. denied that the king had rights to give out lands to colonists. 2. he taught that oaths of loyalty could not be administered by the colonies because the oaths were an act of worship. |
| what were Roger Williams's convictions and contention? reasons number 3 and 4 | 3. said that no one should listen to sermons given by a minister from the church of England. 4. said that the civil government had authority only over people's property and outward actions. |
| who was the co-founder of Rhode Island? | Roger Williams |
| who separated the chuch and state? | Roger Williams |
| what was Anne Bradstreet's Job? | Frontier Homemaker and a private poet |
| who wrote the Tenth Muse? | Anne Bradstreet |
| what are metaphors? | imaginative comparison of two dissimilar things |
| what are simile? | a comparison using like or as |
| what is a personification? | giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects or entities |
| what is a an apostrophe? | is an address to an absent person, abstraction, or object |
| what were Edward Taylor's achievements? | was a Frontier Minister, was a meditational poet |
| what are paradox? | a statement that seems to be self-contradictory yet actually making sense when understood in the right context |
| what are stanzas? | a poem based on thought, meter, or rhyme |
| what is a couplet? | a stanza containing two lines |
| what is a quatrain? | stanza of four lines |
| what is an heroic couplet? | composed of lines of iambic pentameter(human heart beat) |
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