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English 10/25/23
English III
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who wrote “Way to Rainy Mountain”? - N. Scott Momaday | N. Scott Momaday |
| Who wrote La Relación? - Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca |
| Who wrote Of Plymouth Plantation? - William Bradford | William Bradford |
| Who wrote Narrative of the Captivity? - Mary Rowlandson | Mary Rowlandson |
| Who wrote The History of the Dividing Line? - William Byrd | William Byrd |
| Who wrote The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America? - Anne Bradstreet | Anne Bradstreet |
| Olaudah Equiano | |
| Who wrote “In Referance to Her Children”? - Anne Bradstreet | Anne Bradstreet |
| Who wrote “Huswifery”? - Edward Taylor | Edward Taylor |
| Who wrote “To My Dear and Loving Husband”? - Anne Bradstreet | Anne Bradstreet |
| Who wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”? - Jonathan Edwards | Jonathan Edwards |
| Who wrote “Upon the Burning of Our House”? - Anne Bradstreet | Anne Bradstreet |
| Name five Native American writings. - “The Earth Only” - “Song of the Sky Loom” - “The Sky Tree” - “Coyote Finishes His Work” - “The World on Turtle’s Back” | “The Earth Only” |
| Allusion - Reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or the arts. It is only mentioned and possibly hinted at, but not fully explained. | |
| Historical Context- The moods, attitudes, and conditions that existed in a certain time that is the setting for a piece of literature and have an impact on the event. | |
| Iambic Pentameter- iamb-- a foot of poetry with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable Pentameter- a line with five feet | : a foot of poetry with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable Pentameter: a line with five feet |
| Archaic words- Words that have disappeared from common use or the particular meaning of a word that has disappeared from common use | |
| Oral tradition- Passing down literature from generation to Generation by Word of Mouth | |
| Myth- An anonymous, traditional story that is basically religious in nature and that usually serves to explain a belief, ritual, or mysterious natural phenomenon | |
| Personification- Giving human characteristics to something non-human | human |
| Archetype- the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representatives or copies of | |
| Simile- Using a comparative word like, as, than, or resembles to show similarities between two unlike things | |
| Metaphor- A figure of speech that compares to unlike things without using comparison words such as like, as, than, or resembles | |
| Autobiography- An account of a person's own life | |
| Biography- An account of a person's life written by someone else | |
| Types of writing at the time- travel narratives, poetry, slave narratives, captivity stories, and tales of the new world | |
| Puritan beliefs- Bible, read and discuss Bible everyday, the Bible is the rule book for life, education is important for kids to read and work | |
| Diction- word choice | |
| Pilgrim- One who travels for a religious purpose or Journey | |
| Chronicle- a factual written account of important or historical events in the order of their occurrence | |
| Objective reporting- sticks to facts only uses information that can be proved true or false | |
| Subjective reporting- Reviews the author's attitude or feelings about facts that are being told | |
| Land Surveyor- Professional science of determining terrestrial positions of points in the distance between them to establish maps and boundaries | |
| Satire- a kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or contempt the weakness and wrongdoings of individuals, groups, intuitions, or Humanity in general | |
| Alliteration- Repetition of consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words, in the same line of poetry or near each other in prose | |
| Poetic Inversion- Words of a sentence or Clause are written out of normal syntax or word order | |
| Reasons for poetic inversion- making a meter fit or making rhyme occur at the end of a line | |
| Couplet- A verse in which two successive lines rhyme | |
| Iambic couplets- a rhythmic pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable | |
| Rhyme- repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables and all succeeding syllables | |
| Conceit- A metaphor that continues over several lines or an entire poem and is often far-fetched or odd/unusual | fetched or odd/unusual |
| Enlightenment- Believed humans can find truth through reasons other than by the authority of the past, religious faith, or intuition | |
| First Great Awakening- Religious devotion that swept through England and the colonies that promoted revived religious devotion | |
| Fire-and-Brimstone preaching- Idiomatic expression referring to sermons during the Great Awakening that used imagery to show people how very close they were to damnation and what was going to happen to them in hell. many in the audience wept and screamed | and |
| Puritan beliefs - Bible- Read and discuss EVERY day. Bible = Rule Book for Life | Bible: Read and discuss EVERY day. Bible = Rule Book for Life |
| Puritan beliefs - Education- Important for kids to read & work. 1st college in America = 1636. Harvard | Education: Important for kids to read & work. 1st college in America = 1636. Harvard |
| Puritan beliefs - Divine mission- Manifest Destiny Example for the world | Divine mission: Manifest Destiny Example for the world |
| Puritan beliefs - Grace- Blessing from God. Change in your soul. | Grace: Blessing from God. Change in your soul. |
| Puritan beliefs - Plainness- No objects to distract.No meeting house decorations. Writing with everyday language. “Plain” means no figures of speech. The colors were mute. Biblical allusion- a reference to the Christian bible | Plainness: No objects to distract.No meeting house decorations. Writing with everyday language. “Plain” means no figures of speech. The colors were mute. Biblical allusion: a reference to the Christian bible |
| Syntax- rules and patterns of language use. | |
| Implied Metaphor- does not use “to be” verbs in the formation as direct metaphors do (a type of metaphor that compares two things that are not alike without actually mentioning one of those things) Ex- “A woman barked a warning at her child.” | |
| Circa- approximately | |
| Extended Metaphor- extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry (the same as conceit) | |
| Puritan- extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry | |
| Aspects of Native American writing- -shows cultural belief of nature -teaches moral belief -shows the belief that words make things happen | shows cultural belief of nature |
| What does RAPS stand for? - Restate the question in statement form, Answer the question, Prove the answer with detail and examples, Summarize or sum up your answer | Restate the question in statement form, Answer the question, Prove the answer with detail and examples, Summarize or sum up your answer |
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