The Puritans
This poetic form consists of fourteen lines and usually ends in couplets.
What is a sonnet?
Franklin included these in his "Poor Richard's Almanac" and they were authoritative principles or rules for conduct.
What is a maxim?
This is the true identity of "the captain."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This poem celebrates American identity at the dedication of a monument.
What is "Concord Hymn"?
The human capacity for evil, focus on the inner self, and character's motivations are all examples of this.
What are characteristics?
In chapter one, Douglass dispels this common religious support for slavery.
What is the descendants of Ham are cursed?
This poet had eight children, left the luxuries of privilege for a religious life, and committed him or herself to the craft of writing.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
Thomas Paine was a massive failure until he published this.
What is "Common Sense?"
These are the two voices of Emily Dickinson's poems.
What is the orphan and the queen?
Transcendentalists abandoned this for ideas and imagination.
What is facts/reason?
This person's obsession with social and religious anxiety can be seen in his novels and short stories.
Who is Hawthorne?
This element of rhetorical situation is "slavery is bad for the slave and slave owner" and "black people are people too."
What is purpose?
This person was the leader of the Puritans and wrote "City Upon a Hill."
Who is John Winthrop?
This pseudonym came from the real-life doctor-astrologer Richard Saunders and a nod to Franklin's poor Puritan upbringing.
What is Poor Richard?
This literary device includes the lists of mechanics, carpenters, boatmen, wood-cutters, etc in "I Hear America Singing."
This ideal meant abandoning imitation, charity for charity's sake, and conformity.
What is self-reliance?
This person was obsessed with his distaste for imperialism and death.
Who is Melville?
"Pious," "cruel," "pernicious," and "broken" are examples of this.
What is diction/word choice?
This Puritan belief meant that people could not choose salvation because it was the privilege of God alone to choose who is saved from damnation and who isn't.
What is predestination?
This element of rhetorical situation is arguably Paine, but it could be Joseph Huey.
What is audience?
This literary device explains that death comes for us all in "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls."
What is the theme?
This person believed that humanity didn't deserve nature under any circumstances.
Who is Thoreau?
This happens to Hester at the end of The Scarlet Letter.
Douglass credits the turning point in his narrative to this.
What is learning to read/write?
This rhetorical strategy was used in "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and is a surprising metaphor used for intellectual purposes rather than aesthetic or sensual ones.
What is a conceit?
This element of rhetorical situation explains why Franklin is so eager to convince the recipient to burn his manuscript.
What is exigence?
This character's love of superstition, natural cowardice, and foolish pursuit of a croquette causes him to run away.
Who is Ichabod?
"Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age," "imitation is suicide," and "what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,---that is genius" are examples of this.
What is absolute statements?
This symbol meaning was meant for shame but was transformed into praise through the character's strength of personality.
What is the scarlet letter?
This rhetorical strategy is used successfully in the escalation of the murders in chapter 3.
What is line of reasoning/logos/arrangement?