"Of Plymouth Plantation"
"The General History of Virginia"
"Balboa"
Critical Vocabulary
Additional Vocabulary
100
This is the full date on which the Mayflower Compact was signed.
What is November 11, 1620?
100
He was the Indian Chief who captured Smith.
Who was Powhatan?
100
This was Balboa's occupation before he left Spain.
What is a pig farmer?
100
This means the period in between.
What is interim?
100
This refers to the key message or insight of a work.
What is the theme?
200
According to Bradford, this is what determines whether a man lives or dies.
What is the just hand of God?
200
This was the leader who took the best food and drink for himself, leaving the old, wormy food for his men.
Who was President Wingfield?
200
This was a possible motive Balboa had in naming his dog Leoncico.
What is Leoncico's muscles and protruding bones or because Balboa thinks of himself as a powerful lion ad sees the same traits in his dog?
200
This means an official document granting ownership.
What is a patent?
200
This serves as a transition to a flashback.
What is a flash forward?
300
These are the two main focuses of Bradford's writing.
What are exploration and discovery?
300
Smith killed him for his mutinous act.
Who was Captain Kendall?
300
Balboa organized a rebellion against him.
Who is Enciso?
300
This means to stick out or bulge.
What is protrude?
300
This is the term used when a story starts in the middle of the action.
What is in medias res?
400
This is the reason that the settlers needed permission from the king to form a colony in Virginia.
What is because previous English settlers had already claimed it for the king, so he legally owned it?
400
Smith blames all of the following except what for the loss of his men and his capture: the 20 savages, the Council, his own men or himself?
Who was himself?
400
Balboa would like to be known as all of the following except for which one?
What is Balboa the Valiant, Balboa the Fearsome, Balboa the Frightening or Balboa the Brave?
400
This means disagreement or conflict.
What is discord?
400
This refers to a record of historical events.
What are annals?
500
Though the diction of both the "Mayflower Compact" and the earlier sections of "Of Plymouth Plantation" are formal, the "Mayflower Compact" also contains this quality.
What is that it is legalistic?
500
Smith uses all of the following except for which one when he describes the Native Americans: savages, dirty and diseased, like the devil or stern barbarians?
What is dirty and diseased?
500
He served as a foil to Balboa.
Who was the Dominican monk?
500
This means pure or unspoiled.
What is pristine?
500
This refers to a writer's choice of words.
What is diction?
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