Poetry Devices
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
The year Anne Bradstreet's house burned down.
What is 1666?
A contract with God.
What is a covenant?
A local town that Taylor was associated with.
A technical device used in the poem; explain.
What is: rhyme, rhyme scheme, tetrameter, rhythm, slant rhyme, rhetorical question? flow, maintain structure, establish rhythm, etc.
Forced rhyme; give an example.
What is slant rhyme? Ex. "noise" and "voice".
Topics commonly addressed in Bradstreet's poetry.
What is religion?
What are emotions?
A reason Puritans were writing and an example of that writing.
What is to persuade spreading religion and gaining territory / sermons?
What is to record the events of the time / colonial histories?
Devotional poems; personal diaries
One major work written by Edward Taylor and what the title means.
What is "Huswifery" / housework?
A way to describe how Bradstreet's faith influenced her reaction to the loss of her home. Explain.
What is confusion, understanding, distress, call (to God) for help, guilt, hope? (various moments)
A poetic device used to indicate an author's attitude towards their subject matter.
A reason Bradstreet's poetry might be criticized by Puritans.
What is she values her material objects?
Another word for a set of religious beliefs.
The name of the first textbook where Taylor's poetry might have appeared.
What is The New England Primer?
A figurative device used in the poem. Explain.
What is mood, tone, imagery, connotation, metaphor, etc.? (vary)
A comparison between two unlike things; not using like or as; allows the reader to better understand a point of reference.
A reason that Anne Bradstreet is a "big deal" in American literature.
What is she was the first notable American poet?
A way that Puritans differed from Quakers.
What is religious intolerance?
What is interactions with natives? (explain)
The poetic device that Taylor uses throughout the poem we studied and what it means.
What is conceit / extended metaphor?
The "Architect" in the poem.
Who is God?
What is elegy?
A reason why the female identity is significant to Bradstreet's poetry.
What is because females were not encouraged to improve their minds or express their ideas.
The government that Puritans had and what it means.
An example of the religious imagery that Taylor uses in the poem we studied.
"...make Thy Holy Spirit, Lord, wind quills"
comparisons that use the tools of a spinning wheel to become human embodiments of Taylor's requests to God
A connection between Puritan beliefs and material possessions within the poem.
What is heightened awareness about the value that they should not put on their material goods?