Vocab 1
Which vocab word means "income"?
Revenue
Which vocab word means "wise, having good judgement"?
Prudent
Jonathan Swift
Anne Hutchinson
This type of point of view features a narrator that uses "I" "me" or "my" pronouns in the story.
First-person point of view
Which vocab word means "unique in a way that is easily noticed"?
Which vocab word means "having the skill to do something successfully"?
Competent
What are the 4-inch tall people called?
Lilliputians
What genre is this text?
non-fiction/biography
This type of view has a narrator that uses pronouns such as "he" "she" or "they", but only knows one character's thoughts or feelings
Third-person limited
Which vocab word means "to search in order to locate something"?
Scour
Which vocab word means "conflict among people"?
Discord
What was the conflict between Lilliput and Blefescu? (What was their disagreement?)
They disagreed on which end to break an egg
What religious group made up the colony that Anne Hutchinson lived in?
The Puritans
This type of point of view is "all-knowing", meaning that the narrator knows all of the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all characters in the story.
Third-person omniscient
Which vocab word means "tended to the needs of a person, especially medical needs"?
Ministered
Which vocab word means "a formal written request typically signed by many people"?
Petitioning
Name the 3 different types of irony.
Verbal, situational, and dramatic irony
"Anne Hutchinson held meetings at her house, and they became very popular."
What is "they" referring to?
the meetings
What might be an author's purpose for writing a non-fiction text?
To educate or inform
Which vocab word means "a violent uprising against an authority or government"?
Insurrection
Which word means "to provide someone with shelter"?
Name one thing that the author satirizes (makes fun of) in Gulliver's Travels?
Name one reason the Puritans were threatened by Anne Hutchinson.
What was one problem with the Articles of Confederation?
No tax revenue, weak government (no judicial or executive branch), all states had to agree on amendments, all states had equal power