Puritan Literature
This Puritan author wrote a poem about losing her home in a fire.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
In the Iroquois creation story, the world begins on this creature’s back.
What is a turtle?
This appeal is based on emotions.
What is pathos?
The first book printed in the American colonies.
What is the Bay Psalm Book?
Individuality, love of nature, emotions, and imagination
What are some of the major aspects of American Romantic literature?
This writing style is simple, direct, and used by Puritan authors like Bradford. It was created in order to set American writing apart from British writing of the time
What is plain style?
Pocahontas saved John Smith from this fate.
What is execution?
This appeal is based on the speaker’s credibility or authority.
What is ethos?
The purpose of the Declaration of Independence.
What is to appeal to the King of England?
This poem teaches that “life is real, life is earnest,” and encourages purposeful living.
What is “A Psalm of Life”?
Mary Rowlandson survived her captivity mainly because of this.
What is her faith in God?
John Smith wrote his accounts mainly for this purpose.
What is to persuade people in England to come to the New World?
This appeal uses facts, logic, and reasoning.
What is logos?
Psalm 23 describes God using this metaphor.
What is a shepherd?
This story teaches that greed leads to destruction when the devil takes the main character.
What is “The Devil and Tom Walker”?
This sermon used terrifying imagery of hell to illustrate the horrors of damnation
What is “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?
Colonists trading, fighting, suffering disease, and then befriending some Natives was described by this author.
Who is William Bradford?
Citing the Bible to support your argument is an example of this rhetorical appeal.
What is ethos?
Puritans avoided imitation of British authors by using this kind of writing.
What is plain style?
Longfellow uses the “rainy day” as this—representing sadness and hardship.
What is a metaphor?
Bradford believed the Plymouth colony ultimately survived because of this.
What is God’s providence?
This type of narrative tells the story of someone captured by enemies—Rowlandson’s is the most famous example.
What is a captivity narrative?
Describing sinners as “dangling over the pit of hell” is an example of this rhetorical technique.
What is pathos?
This biblical book inspired the Bay Psalm Book.
What is the Book of Psalms (in the Bible)?
This theme from The Arrow and the Song teaches that our words and actions can do this.
What is last forever / continue to affect others?