Why is the minsters black veil considered a parable?
What is it teaches a moral lesson.
100
Was Benjamin Franklin a Puritan or a Rationalist?
What is a Rationalist
100
In the poem "The Raven," what does the narrator expect to see when he opens the door?
What is his lost love Lenore.
100
Mr. Hooper's black veil serves as what, beyond a simple black veil?
What is a symbol of secret sin.
100
Who is Edwards addressing in his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?"
What is unconverted persons.
200
The following excerpt from "The Raven" is an example of what literary term? "What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore..."
What is alliteration
200
True or False. Rationalists believed in behaving like a saint in order to go to heaven.
What is false. Those are the Puritans.
200
In the poem "Thanatopsis," what does Nature say will happen when the reader dies?
What is they will join with everyone else/become a part of the Earth.
200
In "The Devil and Tom Walker" what does Washington Irving use to symbolize hypocrisy and hidden evil?
What is the flourishing trees that are rotten in their core.
200
What form of pathos does Jonathan Edward's use most to persuade his congregation?
What is fear
300
"The bow of God's wrath is bent" is an example of what literary term?
What is a figure of speech
300
Why did the Puritans travel to America?
What is they were being tortured and persecuted in Europe.
300
According to nature in the poem "Thanatopsis," how should people regard death?
What is calmly and with trust.
300
Why does no one ask Mr. Hooper why he wears the veil?
What is they are afraid of what his answer might be (because they'd have to think of their own sin)
300
What is the main purpose of Patrick Henry's speech to the Virgina Convention?
What is to convince American's to fight against the British.
400
The following excerpt from "Upon the Burning of Our House" is an example of what? "In silent night when rest I took."
What is inversion/inverted sentence
400
In Puritan society, what do woods often represent?
What is evil/place where the devil resides
400
What about the poem "Thanatopsis" makes it a Romantic poem?
What is nature plays a large role in the poem
400
The author of "The Devil and Tom Walker" also wrote what famous story?
What is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
400
The following excerpt from Patrick Henry's speech is an example of which appeal? "Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for this accumulation of armies and navies?"
What is appeal to logic and reasoning/logos
500
The Faustian pact made in "The Devil and Tom Walker" is an example of what?
What is an archetype
500
What do Rationalists believe is God's greatest gift to man?
What is the ability to rationalize/to think logically
500
In "The Raven," why does the bird perch upon the bust of Pallas?
What is it attributes wisdom to the bird
500
Give an example, from "The Devil and Tom Walker," of how Washington Irving uses humor.
What is he uses dark humor by highlighting Tom's greed and his hatred for his wife.
500
Why does Jonathan Edwards compare God's fury to nature when speaking to his congregation?
What is to put abstract ideas in relate-able terms that people will understand.