Grammar
Native American Lit.
Meeting of Cultures
Narrative Accounts
Puritan Influence
100
What are the 3 topics to avoid when writing economically?
Verbosity, Redundancy, Tangentiality
100
Most Native American literature is considered
folklore
100
Columbus landed on this island.
San Salvador
100
The Mayflower landed on this landmass.
Cape Cod
100
The Puritan Plain Style of writing is characterized by these two things.
Short words, direct statements, ordinary objects.
200
Punctuate the noun of direct address: Please Leah turn off the lights.
Please, Leah, turn off the lights.
200
This genre of literature is recounting the beginning of earthly life, often including immortal beings
origin myth
200
The "diamond" in "Diamond Island: Alcatraz" represents this.
truth
200
John Smith was the founder of this settlement.
Jamestown.
200
This is the first college in North America (many educated Puritans attended this college).
Harvard
300
The plural possessive of: the ties that belong to all of the men
The men's ties
300
The Onondaga credit this/these being(s) with the creation of their world.
The water animals
300
"Big Yellow Taxi" is a song about
appreciating nature and being thankful for what you have.
300
This person is the author of "Of Plymouth Plantation."
William Bradford
300
Anne Bradstreet was considered "unladylike" because of this.
She was a writer.
400
The plural possessive of: the books that belong to the Smith family
The Smiths' books
400
The Modac believe that the landscape and creatures of the Earth were formed by this being and action.
Sky Chief pushed snow down to the Earth and descended the mountain, forming the trees and rivers as he walked.
400
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to travel from Florida to this place.
Mexico
400
Early settlers wrote exploration narratives and used this technique in their writing to gain financial backing.
Exaggeration
400
Huswifery is a poem written in an elaborate metaphor, known as this.
Conceit.
500
The plural possessive of: the cars that belong to the Simkins family members
The Simkinses' cars
500
This origin myth involves spirit people calling the gods and turning corn into humans.
Navajo
500
Cabeza de Vaca gained a reputation as this.
medicine man and trader
500
This person was not a Puritan and wrote his narratives in a boastful, exaggerated manner.
John Smith
500
Jonathan Edwards's sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" was written with a lot of
imagery.
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