Lit Terms
Native American Lit
The Settlement Period
Potpourri
The Crucible
100
When something stands for something else
What is a symbol
100
This story tells how humans came to be
What is When Grizzlies Walked Upright?
100
The author of "A Journal of the First Voyage to America"
What is Christopher Columbus?
100
Female Native American who saved John Smith
What is Pocohantas?
100
Author of The Crucible
What is Arthur Miller?
200
Writing that appeals to the senses
What is imagery?
200
This is how Native American stories, legends, and poems were passed on from generation to generation
What is oral tradition? Also could be orally, out loud, aloud.
200
Author who wrote "The General History of Virginia"
What is John Smith?
200
Native American who helped the Pilgrims
What is Squanto?
200
Reverend of the Salem church
What is Reverend Parris?
300
A speech given from a pulpit that appleals to the listener's emotions
What is a sermon?
300
This poem shows that the seasons were very important to the Native Americans
What is "Calendar Fragments."
300
The writer of "Of Plymouth Plantation"
What is William Bradford?
300
State where Jamestown Colony was located.
What is Virginia?
300
Slave who conjures, confesses, and accuses
What is Tituba?
400
Writing that refers to history, famous literature, mythology, or a well-known event
What is an allusion?
400
This is a common thread found in most Native American literature
What is nature? Respect for nature, revererence of nature
400
Writer of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
What is Jonathan Edwards?
400
Place where the Pilgrims landed (city and state)
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
400
Character who wants to get rid of ex-lover's spouse
What is Abigail Williams?
500
If the audience knows something that a character does not, it is called this
What is dramatic irony?
500
This state's name means "great water" in Native American tongue
What is Michigan?
500
Type of literature during the Selltlement Period.
What is narrative?
500
College that the Puritans started
What is Harvard College?
500
LShe lost 7/8 of her children within 24 hours of their births
What is Ann Putnam?
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