Pre-Colonial Period
Colonial/Revolutionary Period
Poetry
History
Rhetorical Devices
100
Anything before 1620
What are the years of the Pre-Colonial Period?
100
The years of the Colonial/Revolutionary Period.
What is 1620-1800?
100
The rhythm or beat of a line or lines of poetry.
What is meter?
100
A source created by someone who was present at an historical event
What is a primary source?
100
The art of communicating ideas.
What is rhetoric?
200
A story that explains how something in the world came to be.
What is a myth?
200
He wrote Of Plymouth Plantation.
Who is William Bradford?
200
Family, everyday life, marriage and love
What is the subject matter of Anne Bradstreet's poetry?
200
The reason for Jonathan Edwards' hellfire and brimstone sermon.
What is he thought his congregation was backsliding and not being as devoted as good Christians should be.
200
Patrick Henry uses over 20 of these in his Speech in the Virginia Convention.
What are rhetorical questions?
300
to guide people through the trials of life
What is one of the four functions of myth?
300
He was the first English-speaking Native American the Pilgrim settlers met.
Who is Samoset?
300
Also known as reverse word order.
What is inverted syntax?
300
"Human beings are inherently evil" is one of three.
What is a basic belief of the Puritans?
300
A persuasive technique that provides reasonable solutions to problems.
What is a logical appeal?
400
Tells the story of how the world and the universe came to be.
What is a creation myth?
400
"This wretched situation was again aggravated by the galling of the chains...the shrieks of the women and the groans of the dying..."
What is sensory imagery?
400
aa bb cc dd ee ff gg, for example...
What is rhyme scheme?
400
The Crucible is an example of this type of source
What is secondary?
400
The use of extended sentences and difficult vocabulary in speech or writing.
What is elevated language?
500
An Iroquois creation myth
What is The World on the Turtle's Back?
500
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is one.
What is a sermon?
500
Meter of poetry where each line has 10 syllables, alternating stressed and unstressed.
What is iambic pentameter?
500
A story told by a former slave
What is a slave narrative?
500
MLK's I Have A Dream speech uses this rhetorical device frequently.
What is repetition?
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