Terms
A question asked but not to receive an answer.
What is rhetorical question?
This founding document was mostly written by Jefferson.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This famous singular pamphlet was written by Paine.
What is Common Sense?
Why did Franklin write his Autobiorgraphy?
What is so that others can be as successful as he is and to show his son his life.
These are the two main characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
Who is Eleanor and Marianna Dashwood?
The art of portraying a character through actions, speech, or appearance.
What is characterization?
This famous poem by Wheatly shows the idea that God saves all.
What is On Being Brought from Africa to America?
Paine uses this technique to bypass reason and use emotional appeal to persuade.
What is propaganda?
This is the character flaw Franklin pointed out about himself.
What is vanity?
This author wrote Green Eggs and Ham.
What is Dr. Seuss?
Similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is parallelism?
These three positions of government were held by Jefferson.
What is Vice President, President, and diplomat to France?
This is how Paine viewed the institutionalized church.
What is as creating slaves of religious people for the purpose of profit and power?
Franklin did this to improve his writing.
What is copy and rewrite books?
This novel by Jane Austen follows the life of Elizabeth Bennett.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
The use of syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meaning.
What is antithesis?
Wheatley was the first African American to do this.
What is publish a book?
These are series of pamphlets Paine wrote that Washington had read to his troops.
What is the American Crisis?
This preacher was good friends with Fanklin.
"A Christmas Carol" was written by this man.
Who is Charles Dickens?
Reasoning from a general truth to a specific conclusion.
What is deduction?
Wheatley said in her letter to Pastor Occom that all people want ____________.
What is freedom?
What is card stacking?
These three religious beliefs Franklin did NOT question.
What is the existence of God, immorality of souls, and rewards/punishments in afterlife?
This is the worlds oldest surviving epic poem.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?