Stories and important information that were passed down through spoken word
What is oral storytelling, or oral tradition
100
Belief that God has already chosen those who will be saved, but we can’t know for sure who it is.
What is predestination or election
100
A poem describing her reaction when her house burned.
What is "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House"
100
compares two unlike things without using “like” or “as”
What is metaphor
100
"And when I could no longer look,
I blest His name that gave and took,
That laid my goods now in the dust."
What is Anne Bradstreet
200
An anonymous traditional story that is basically religious in nature and that usually serves to explain a belief, ritual, or mysterious natural phenomenon.
What is myth
200
The use of common, everyday words and simple sentences.
What is plain style
200
Words in a sentence or phrase that are written out of order.
What is inversion
200
The traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community passed through the generations by word of mouth.
What is folklore
200
"A very wearisome and tedious day I had of it; what with my own wound, and my child's being so exceeding sick, and in a lamentable condition with her wound."
What is Mary Rowlandson
300
an old imaginative pattern that appears across cultures and is repeated through the ages.
What is archetype
300
A reference to someone or something well-known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture.
What is allusion
300
A comparison of two different things that extends throughout an entire poem or story.
What is extended metaphor.
300
an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
What is personification
300
"Consider the danger you are in: It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit"
What is Jonathan Edwards
400
The American Indian worldview
What is a circle or cycle
400
A famous fire and brimstone sermon that had an extreme effect on the audience.
What is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
400
What does this metaphor describe?
"Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth didst by my side remain,
Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true"
What is her published book of poetry
400
Compares two unlike things by describing the comparison instead of stating it directly.
What is indirect metaphor
400
"My sorrowing eyes aside did cast; And here and there the places spy; Where oft I sate and long did lie."
What is Anne Bradstreet
500
A character that is neither good nor bad, can be selfish, irresponsible, and foolish, but who can also be funny, lovable, and clever.
What is trickster
500
Most of Puritan literature was from this genre.
What is nonfiction
500
"I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits."
What is "The Prologue"
500
A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people, events, or ideas.
What is Allegory
500
"O, ye nominal Christians! might not an African ask you, Learned you this from your God who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you?"