Vocabulary
This vocabulary word means heroic courage.
What is valor?
This term means to say the same thing using different words.
What is restatement?
The purpose of this narrative was to encourage others to have courage and keep their faith as they endured the adversity of making a home in the new world.
What is "Of Plymouth Plantation?"
A clause that can stand as a sentence on its own.
What is an independent clause?
Two of the methods of punishment regularly used by the Puritans.
What are execution, hanging, stockade, public whipping, scarlet A, fines
The vocabulary word that best fits in the following sentence:
The F4 tornado was a _____ that the town would talk about for generations to come.
What is calamity?
This term refers to a short, wise saying.
What is aphorism?
This was written to frighten people into turning to God.
What is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?"
A clause that begins with a subordinator and cannot stand as a sentence on its own.
What is a dependent clause?
The simple and straightforward way of writing by many of this time period was known as this.
What is Puritan Plain Style?
A synonym for danger
What is peril?
An extended metaphor is also known as this.
What is a CONCEIT?
Benjamin Franklin created this publication that was famous largely because of the aphorisms it contained.
What is "Poor Richard's Almanack?"
A sentence that includes a dependent clause and an independent clause
What is a complex sentence?
True stories of Africans who had been captured and brought to America were called this.
What are slave narratives?
The vocabulary word that relates to evil that slowly works its way in.
What is licentious?
This term refers to using the appeal of logic to persuade.
What is logos?
This person described his experience on a slave ship to tell others about the horrors of the slave trade.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
What the letters F.A.N.B.O.Y.S. stand for
What are FOR AND NOR BUT OR YET SO
This was the main reason Puritans wanted their children to be educated.
What is: so that they could read the Bible.
The vocabulary word that means seemingly endless.
What is interminable?
A person who has written his or her own life story has written this.
What is an autobiography?
The stories that the Native Americans passed down through oral tradition that told how the earth came into being or explained a part of nature were called these.
What are origin myths?
A sentence that contains at least two independent clauses
What is a compound sentence?
What is nature?