Vocabulary
Plentiful; abundant
Copious
Short sayings with a moral message
Aphorism
At 11 years old, he was kidnapped from his home in West Africa by British Slave Traders.
Olaudah Equiano
from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is considered what genre of literature
Slave narrative
The Autobiography
Benjamin Franklin
Watchfullness
Vigilance
Hypophora: speaker raises a question and then immediately answers it.
Hypophora
Invented bifocals
Benjamin Franklin
Phillis Wheatley ends her poem "On Being Brought From Africa to America" speaking about the "th’angelic train." What does this symbolize?
Salvation is for all.
"Letter to Her Daughter From the New White House"
Abigail Adams
Greed
Avarice
Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction
Antithesis
Movement that valued reason over faith
Enlightenment
In his speech, Henry uses a metaphor of a lamp. What does he call his "lamp by which my feet are guided" ?
Lamp of experience
"On Being Brought from Africa to America"
Phillis Wheatley
Likely to cause disease
Pestilential
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of words, phrases, or clauses.
Parallelism
Public writing (newspapers, magazines, almanacs), Narratives, Essays, and letters
Examples of American Revolutionary Literature
Franklin's Autobiography is filled with "his opinions and suggestions" concerning what?
moral perfection and self-discipline
"Speech to the Second Virginia Convention"
Patrick Henry
Short-sighted; not seeing or providing for the future
Improvident
Poetic technique in which a sentence continues without pause beyond the end of a line of poetry and into the next line of verse
Enjambment
General George Washington ordered this author's essay to be read right before the Battle of Trenton in 1776.
Thomas Paine
How does Franklin hope that he can attain moral perfection?
By developing virtues to help him avoid committing fault
from The Crisis Number 1
Thomas Paine