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This man is considered one of England's finest writers - two plays that he wrote during the 1600s were King Lear and Macbeth.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
This was the primary writing style that the Puritans used in their histories and diaries.
What is plain style?
100
This is the number of parts of speech there are in the English language.
What is 8?
100
This author's name translates "one favored"
What is Olaudah?
100
This is the definition for the word "succorless".
What is without aid or assistance?
200
This Puritan woman wrote "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" in 1650 and also wrote a memorable poem about her house burning down.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
200
This is a style of writing in sentences that helps accommodate meter and rhyme. In this particular style, the words of a sentence or phrase are wrenched out of normal English syntax or word order.
What is inversion?
200
A noun names a person, place, thing, or idea. This type of noun, however, names a particular person, place, thing, or idea and is always capitalized.
What is a proper noun?
200
This famous Puritan minister was admitted to Harvard University at 12 years of age, had a father named "Increase", and was a compelling advocate for the smallpox vaccine.
Who is Cotton Mather?
200
This is the definition for "repine"
What is complain?
300
In 1741, this Puritan minister wrote and delivered a rousing sermon entitled "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
300
These are words or phrases that compare one thing to another, unlike thing. Generally these words or phrases appeal to the senses and help to evoke a clearer understanding of what the author is trying to say or have understood.
What are figures of speech?
300
These two types of nouns are opposites of each other. One names a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses; its opposite type of noun names an idea, feeling, quality, or characteristic.
What are concrete and abstract nouns?
300
These people believed that God created a well-ordered universe, controlled by immutable laws and operating without divine intervention.
Who are the Deists?
300
When one is "provoked" one is this?
What is angered?
400
This Anti-Federalist wrote a powerful piece that was was published in pamphlet form and entitled "Common Sense".
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
This particular genre is a firsthand account of a writer's own life.
What is an autobiography?
400
This type of noun names a group such as "audience", "family", "flock", "class", "pack", etc.
What is a collective noun?
400
This fact, which is mentioned in the first line of Equiano's slave narrative, is something most people are not aware of.
What is the fact that Africans had slaves?
400
If I appease you with an answer or comment, you will feel this.
What is calmed or satisfied?
500
This man is known for writing one of the first slave narratives documenting the cruelty and experiences aboard slave ships.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
500
This is an educated guess based on what you already know and what you learn from reading a text. To make one of these, you must look beyond what's being stated directly and think about what is implicit or being suggested.
What is an inference?
500
This type of noun consists of two or more words that together name a person, a place, a thing, or an idea. This type of noun may be written as one word, as separate words, or as a hyphenated word. Examples of these types of nouns are "sidewalk", "tablecloth", "daughter-in-law".
What is a compound noun?
500
Phillis Wheatley compared the tyranny of slavery to the tyranny of what in her short poem "To the Right Honorable William Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, etc."
What is the tyranny of British rule?
500
Inconceivable means that something is this.
What is unimaginable or beyond understanding?