WRITING MOVEMENTS AND STYLES
Writing style of America’s early English-speaking colonists that emphasizes obedience to God and consists mainly of journals, sermons, and poems.
What is Puritanism (1620 - 1770s): ?
The act of God’s grace in bringing sinners into a new covenant relationship with himself and counting them as righteous before him through the forgiveness of sins.
What is Justification?
A narrative in which characters, action, and sometimes setting represent abstract concepts or moral qualities.
What is Allegory?
The highest point of something
What is Apex?
Kind, Generous
What is a benevolent?
A movement that began in Europe in the seventeenth century, which held that we can arrive at truth by using our reason rather than relying on our faith, the authority of the past, the authority of the Church, or an institution.
What is Rationalism/Enlightenment/Age of Reason/Neoclassicism (1770s - early 1800s)?
Unmerited favor, especially the free gift of salvation that God gives to believers through faith in Jesus Christ.(Getting what we don’t deserve).
What is Grace?
An overused phrase which has lost its freshness, and lacks original thought
What is Cliché?
The arrival or creation of something
What is a Advent?
The quality of being brief
What is Brevity?
A revolt against Rationalism that affected literature and the other arts, beginning in the late eighteenth century and remaining strong throughout most of the nineteenth century. This era valued feeling, intuition, and idealism.
What is Romanticism (1800s - 1870s)?
Compassion and leniency toward someone, sometimes even when such suffering results from the person’s own sin or foolishness. (Not getting what we do deserve).
What is Mercy?
The implied meaning of a word or phrase; the associations which come to mind when a word is used that goes beyond it’s dictionary meaning
What is Connotation?
Having knowledge or skill (usually in a particular area)
What is adept?
To clearly express in words
What is articulate?
A nineteenth century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reasons and sensory experience. This movement advocated self-reliance and individualism
What is Transcendentalism (1830s – 1850s)?
A delegate, messenger, or one sent forth with orders.
What is an Apostle?
The literal (dictionary) meaning of a word or phrase.
What is Denotation?
A strong feeling of dislike
What is antipathy?
Similar, but not identical
What is analogous?
A style of writing, developed in the nineteenth century, that attempts to depict life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing it.
What is Realism (1850s -early 1900s)?
People set apart for service to God as holy and separate, living in righteousness. Used in the Bible to refer to all Christians and to all of those who worship Yahweh in Old Testament times.
What are Saints?
A work which combines humor with criticism in order to improve society or humanity
What is Satire?
The state of being uncertain or stuck between two or more options
What is ambivalence?
Extremely plain; stern and forbidding; relating to self-denial
What is a austere?