Introduction
This was the personal topic most early American writers chose to write about because it reflected the interests and concerns of the writers.
What is their personal difficulties?
This theme prevailed in 17th century literature.
What is God's providential care?
This word means "the author's attitude toward a subject."
What is tone?
This word means "the author's reason for writing."
What is purpose?
This was the genre of Mary Rowlandson's piece of literature that we read in class.
What is a captivity narrative?
This was the overarching subject matter for early American literature.
What is religious?
This was the main motive behind the migrations to New England.
What is religious freedom?
This is the thesis or assertion that one takes about a topic.
What is a claim?
This word means "the main idea of the text."
What is theme?
This was the person to whom John Winthrop was compared.
Who is Nehemiah?
This was a major change that affected early American writers.
What is a) the shift from religious to secular; b) independence from England; c) a growing population?
It was after this war that the first consciously American voices began to speak through literature.
What is the Revolutionary War?
This word means "a system of beliefs and values through which one views the world."
What is worldview?
This is the personal preference that inhibits a person from seeing another person's perspective.
What is bias?
John Smith thought the savages needed to be this.
What is converted?
This was the term America began to be called due to the many cultural differences.
What is the Melting Pot?
A transitional New England colonist was also called this.
What is "Yankee"?
This word means "evidence."
What is proof?
This is the type of writing that the Puritans used.
What is plain style?
This is the event during which Mary Rowlandson's captivity took place.
What is King Philip's War?
This had to be abandoned before distinctly American literature could exist.
What is dependence on English literature?
The primary purpose of early American literature was to do this.
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This word means "word choice."
What is diction?
This word means "the way a story is told."
What is point-of-view?
John Winthrop wrote based on his knowledge of the Scriptures as well as this.
What is his legal training?