This system of writing was used by Native American tribes communicate stories, and consisted of symbolic drawings.
What are pictographs?
100
The belief that every is born bad.
What is original sin (total depravity)?
100
Believed that stories or chants had powers to make things happen.
Who are Native Americans?
100
This technique was used by Edwards in his sermon for emphasis and unity. (we especially noted it in the final paragraph with his use of the words day, today, daily and this day)
What is repetition?
100
The types of writing contained in the Early American period.
What is Native American writing and Puritan writing?
200
Many of our myths rely on these repeated patterns, which can be characters, plots, or images.
What are archetypes?
200
Led the Puritans from England in 1620 to the Plymouth Colony for religious freedom.
Who is William Bradford?
200
We are all sinners, saved only by God's grace.
Who are the Puritans?
200
Language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meaning of the words.
What is figurative language (or figures of speech.)
200
The period from 1910 to 1960 contained a revival of arts in a section of New York known of Harlem. This brought us the works of Hurston,Hughes, Cullen, and Morrison.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
Native American stories are passed down through this pathway.
What is oral tradition (word of mouth).
300
The belief that since the beginning of time God had already determined who would be saved and who would be damnned.
What is predestination?
300
Humans are at God's mercy and cannot save themselves.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
300
Bradstreet uses this figure of speech in her poetry to describe her love for her husband. She exaggerates when she says that her love is "such that rivers cannot quench."
What is hyperbole?
300
Contains works of the Transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau.
What is American Romanticism?
400
Native American stories share these traits.
What are practical information about nature,
moral lessons,
animals and humans are interchangeable
stories/chants are powerful and can make
things happen
400
The belief that Jesus sacrificed himself for those whom God deemed already worthy of salvation (the chosen only.)
What is limited atonement?
400
Believed that He gives and takes according to His divine purposes.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
400
The Archer pulling back the bow and shooting the arrow into the sinner's heart is a vivid image used in Edward's . When Bradstreet sees her home burn, she refers to the builder as the mighty Architect. The Archer and the Architect are the same person.
Who is God?
400
This period of literature includes drama such as Our Town and A Raisin in the Sun, and is from 1940 to present.
What is Contemporary Literature?
500
Nature, Life, and the Seasons are examples of this belief of Native Americans.
What is the cyclical nature of existence (or cycle).
500
Puritans wanted everyone to be able to read the Bible, and required everyone to learn to read. Their writings were for the educated, and had 3 qualities.
What is plain,
purposeful,and
for the educated?
500
The belief that God requires people to work long and hard at their vocation.
What is The New England Way?
500
This techniques is used in Bradstreet's poems for emphasis.
What is inversion or inverted syntax?
500
This period reveals a new role for women in our society, and gives readers realistic pieces that express America's changing landscape.