Smith Stuff
The problems the party faced upon arrival. (Identify at least two)
What is bad leadership, trip taking too long, missing planting season, and having not enough food to last?
This is the type of literature that Puritans did allow. (identify 2)
**DD**
What is the Bible, history, poetry, or personal journals?
**why were journals allowed and not considered vain?
This is something that all four speeches had in common (besides being written by Native Americans).
What is KISS or the speaker is a chief of a tribe?
Tone of this passage could best be described as and evidence (at least two excerpts) to support that:
In silent night when rest I took,
For sorrow near I did not look,
I waken'd was with thundering noise
And Piteous shrieks of dreadful voice.
Answers may vary.
Suggestions: scared, shocked, pitiful
thundering noise; piteous shrieks; dreadful voice
¨The Witch Trial at Mount Holly¨ can best be described as this type of literature.
What is a satire?
This is how Smith was a great leader. (Identify at least 2 ways)
**DD**
What is dividing chores and responsibilities, helping everyone, and taking care of his needs last? ((Could also note relationship with Powhatan and Pocahontas as one way.))
What does Smith show to Powhatan's tribe that amuses them for a while?
This is the type of literature Puritans did not allow. (identify at least 2)
What is songs outside of church, any fiction, performed drama, and any lewd material (not dedicated to worship of god and introspection of self)?
The persuasive speech technique being employed here: Why should you take by force that from us which you can have by love?
**DD**
What is a rhetorical question? (Also acceptable: parallel structure)
**Who said this to whom?**
Two ways Bradstreetś values were evident in her poetry.
**DD**
What is devotion to husband/family as well as church, looking forward to heaven, and disdain for material goods?
**Complete the following: Anne Bradstreet arrived in America at the age of ___, accompanied by her ___ and ___.
This is the witch trial that happened and the one that did not happen and we read about, respectively.
**DD**
What is the Salem Witch Trials and the Witch Trial at Mount Holly?
**What were the ¨charges¨ in Mount Holly?
This is how Smith was treated upon his release by Powhatan.
What is accused of murder?
These are three reasons that we now believe witchcraft accusations happened in Salem.
What is vengeance, ergot poisoning, land disputes, girls finding power, fear of unknown, and antipathies towards mentally ill, poor, and single women?
The technique for effective persuasive speech in evidence here: We know you highly esteem the kind of learning taught in these colleges. And the maintenance of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you.
**DD**
What is kindness/compliments and recognition of good intentions to preface his refusal?
**What was he refusing?**
Two of the literary devices being used in the following excerpt: The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.
What is personification, hyperbole, and imagery?
Matherś purpose in using Roman Numerals.
**DD**
What is to make text appear more academic, professional (law books used Roman numerals), and credible?
**What was the name of the woman accused in the excerpt we read?**
This is who Smith credits for the kindness of Pocahontas and Powhatan.
Who is God?
This is the period where people returned to worship as Puritans after years of staying away.
What is the Great Awakening?
The persuasive speech technique being used here:
General Jackson, I am not afraid of you. I fear no man, for I am a Creek warrior. I have nothing to request in behalf of myself; you can kill me, if you desire. But I come to beg you to send for the women and children of the war party who are now starving in the woods.
What is pathos and ethos?
This what Bradstreet looks forward to at the end of the poem ¨To My Dear and Loving Husband.¨
What is spending an eternity with him and Him.
The purpose of Matherś writing about the witch trials.
What is to prove to other parishioners and the world that the Puritans weren´t fools - they were using precise legal procedures to identify witches.
This is Smith's purpose for his writing. (identify at least 2)
What is to maintain his position (or better it), get more people to come people the colony, and get more financial support for the colony?
This is why the Puritan religion was formed (three reasons).
What is to purify the Church of England; to remove the hierarchical (money-robbing) system in place; to simplify their relationship to God (simple churches and basic services); to be able to fire and hire their own ministers; to escape religious persecution in England; and to serve as an example to others?
The two persuasive speech techniques being used here: Look back at the murders committed by the long knives on many of our relations who lived peaceably as neighbors to them on the Ohio. Did not they kill them without the least provocation?
Rhetorical question and historical reference/example.
What is changing from angry, pessimistic, and foreboding to hopeful and optimistic?
Some of the most damning claims outlined by Mather are by several people who testify to having seen her at meetings of witches. This is the most probable reason for these accusations. (Two-part answer)
What is, after being accused of being a witch, being freed by admitting guilt and then accusing others?