Rhetorical Situation and some
Puritan Literature
Terms
Pre-Colonial/Colonial
100

Appeals to reason

What is Logos?

100

Common literature genre Puritans read

Theological Studies, hymns, histories

100

Comparison that does not use “like” or “as” (we draw meaning from identifying the similarities among two unlike things that are compared) 

What is a metaphor?

100

Columbus's primary audience for his Journal

Who are Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain?

200

Establishes credibility and trust

What is Ethos

200

Purpose of writing

What is to glorify God?

200

Tells the story of real life events

What is a Narrative Account?

200
Richard Frethorne came to America as what in exchange for passage to America? 

Indentured Servant

300

To inform, persuade, or entertain

What is the author's purpose?

300

Predestination, hard-work, frugality, self-improvement, intense judgement derived from a desire to rid society of those who are damned. 

What are Puritan Values?

300

Reference to element of literary, historical, or cultural significance

What is an Allusion?

300

Was known as the first American Jeremiad

What is A Modell of Christian Charity?

400

A reflective activity leading to effective communication, including the rational exchange of differing viewpoints.

What is Rhetoric?

400

Moralistic text that denounces a society for its wickedness and predicts its downfall.

What is a Jeremiad?

400

Repetition of words/phrases at beginnings of successive clauses/sentences/lines

What is an Anaphora?

400

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is known as what type of genre?

A sermon

500

Contributing members to our democratic society.

  • Think critically

  • Identify sources of misinformation,  propaganda, and/or tricks being played.

What is Informed Citizenship?

500

Religious revival in colonies -- 1730’s-1740’s

What is The Great Awakening?

500

Sometimes subjective, expressing opinions and perhaps even bias.

What is a firsthand account?

500

What is a possible purpose for for de Vaca's Relation? 

To describe the diverse customs of the indigenous from his observations.