I was responsible for arousing a large mass of people from their spiritual slumber.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
100
With conceit, Taylor compares these.
What is a spinning wheel and a speaker?
100
This is one of the objects of Byrd's satire.
What is laziness? haughtiness?
100
Dekanawida compares this to planting a tree.
What is forming a peace treaty?
200
I was extremely popular for my ability to appease the public with prudent decisions.
Who is William Bradford?
200
Bradstreet contrives this to create a concrete image of an abstract idea.
What is implied metaphor?
200
Wheatley's tone in the line "Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain, / May be refin'd" may best be described as this.
What is chiding?
200
Edwards compares his parishioners to these.
What is the damned in hell?
200
The first rhyming couplet of the Puritan primer reflects this belief.
What is original sin?
300
Talk about being unappreciated, my literary contribution was not recognized until 200 years after I died.
Who is Edward Taylor?
300
Each of Edwards' 3 contrivances create comprehensible images of God's inconceivable anger.
What is simile & metaphor?
300
Bradford uses descriptions of setting such as "there was the mighty ocean which they had passed and was now as a main bar and gulf to separate them from all the civil parts of the world" for this purpose.
What is portray the Puritans' sentiments upon arriving in America?
300
The English come out the losers physically and spiritually in Byrd's comparison to these.
What is the Native Americans?
300
This Puritan minister was a contradiction who recorded the Salem Witch trials and studied medical science.
Who is Cotton Mather?
400
I amassed a huge fortune, a large library, and a classical literary reputation, so why was everybody always picking on me?
Who is Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz?
400
Rowlandson ascribes her captivity to God's will via this contrivance.
What is allusion?
400
Bradstreet's use of the term "pelf" conveys this opinion.
What is self-condemnation?
400
Rowlandson compares her captors to these.
What is Job's "miserable comforters?"
400
This contains an image symbolizing the Iriquois Constitution and its influence on America.
What is the quarter?
500
My work was so widely propagated that numerous authors went to great lengths to emulate it.
Who is Mary Rowlandson?
500
According to Bradford, it is God's just contrivance that engenders this event.
What is the death of the haughty crewman?
500
Bruchac's anecdote of Gluskabe exemplifies this aspect of Native American literature.
What is it teaches a lesson?
500
Sor Juana and Bradstreet have this reputation in common.