Vocabulary
This detail means to purchase one's way out of enslavement.
Manumission
This literary work used third-person narration to give the perception that everything in the text was true.
John Smith's "The General Historie of Virginia"
This text proclaims that tasks such as sewing and fashion create positions of difference between men and women.
This rampant hag, _____________, was the
person, of whom the confessions of the
witches, and of her own children among the
rest, agreed, that the Devil had promised her,
she should be Queen of Hell
The Wonders of the Invisible World, Cotton Mather
These are the four steps in a captivity narrative.
Separation, Torment, Transformation, Return
This is an animal character who defies
authority and sometimes creates
trouble.
Trickster
The "invisible world" referred to _______________.
Illnesses, diseases, unexplained problems, crop failures, weather problems, etc.
This family member is a large worry for this author, who uses the family member as a figure to prove danger in the hands of certain Americans.
Equiano's sister, sexual assault, enslavers
"Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to
your avarice? Are the dearest friends and rela�ons now rendered more dear by their separa�on from
their kindred? "
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
This individual is most known for coming up with the idea of the American Dream.
John Smith
This is the state of being at home with family or home-related duties.
Domesticity
This group approached one of the writers on our text to seek a first-hand account of why slavery was wrong.
British Parliament, Equiano
This character causes mischief in one story for stealing something; giving it back resolves the problem.
Coyote and the water baby, Navajo
“Moreover, was this argument admitted, it would prove too much, for ocular
demonstration evinceth, that there are many robust masculine ladies, and
effeminate gentlemen.”
Judith Sargeant Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes"
David, Job
This is a type of writing where a single individual, usually awoman, stands passively under the strokes of evil, awaiting rescue by the grace of God
Captivity Narrative
This person causes grief for this author, but who uses it as proof that humans go through suffering in life.
Sarah, Mary Rowlandson
Phillis Wheatley, "To His King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1768"
"there's a God, that there's a Saviour too: Once I redemption neither sought nor knew."
Phillis Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America"
Common themes in Native American Creation Stories include (name two).
Birth, Supreme Beings, Genealogy, Mother and Father, Birth, Earth-Diver, Animal-Human relationships
This is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.
Jeremiad
This is considered the first piece of American literature.
John Smith's The General Historie of Virginia
This person is referred to as King Philip.
The main N.A. who is in charge of Mary Rowlandson's captivity
"The birds of the sea saw the woman falling, and they immediately consulted
with each other as to what they could do to help her. Flying wingtip to wingtip
they made a great feathery raft in the sky to support her, and thus they broke her
fall."
Iroquois
Name two conventions from a captivity narrative.
CONVENTIONS
Abruptly brought from state of protected innocence
into confrontation with evil
Forced existence in alien society
Unable to submit or resist
Yearn for freedom, yet fear perils of escape
Struggle between assimilation and maintaining a
separate cultural identity
Condition of captive parallels suffering of all lowly and
oppressed
Growth in moral and spiritual strength
Deliverance