Vocabulary 1
This word's synonyms include mitigate, slake, allay.
What is assuage?
Some of the earliest authors wrote mostly about their _____.
What is difficulty?
These are the four stages of the writing process.
What are planning, drafting, revising, and publishing?
This word means a natural or habitual inclination or tendency.
What is proclivity?
Eventually, the subject matter of literature became predominantly _____.
What is religious?
This word means resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character; accidental, not essential.
What is adventitious?
This is the author's attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
This mode for writing makes the reader want to take action or to change position.
What is persuasive?
This word's synonyms include intervene, mediate.
What is intercede?
This is the author's reason for writing.
What is purpose?
This word's antonyms include avow, affirm, aver.
What is repudiate?
This person was a true Renaissance adventurer and wrote the earliest significant accounts of the Virginia and New England settlements.
Who was John Smith?
This paragraph organization technique emphasizes similarity or difference.
What is comparison/contrast?
What is tenuous?
This person led the Puritan colony at Massachusetts Bay and recorded their first two decades of existence.
Who was John Winthrop?
This word means to make easy, cause to progress faster.
What is expedite?
This person was Plymouth Plantation's chief legal, judicial, and executive counselor; a Separatist.
Who was William Bradford?
This expresses the main idea of an entire piece of writing.
What is the thesis statement?
This word's synonyms include perquisite, perk.
What is prerogative?
Who was Mary Rowlandson?
This word's synonyms include protest, remonstrate, complain.
What is expostulate?
These two people were the two leading figures of the Great Awakening.
Who are Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield?
These are the two main rules for an outline.
What are
a) If you have a I, you have to have a II.
b) Stay consistent in wording (parallelism).
This word's antonyms include surly, cantankerous, dour, inhospitable.
What is affable?
Mary Rowlandson's captivity took place during this war.
What is King Philip's War?