Bradstreet
TRUE OR FALSE:
Ann Bradstreet was the first published female poet in America.
What is TRUE?
Who captured Mary Rowlandson?
What is the Native Americans/Indians?
What kind of church did the Puritans break away from?
What is the Catholic church?
Where ALL the Indians bad?
What is no?
Who is the 'mighty Architect'?
What is God?
Who provided Rowlandson with comfort after Sarah died?
What is God?
How did Puritan's treat each other/other Puritan's?
What is judgement? They would constantly judge each other over their actions and words.
What is personification?
What is an inanimate object that is given human characteristics.
What are some reasons why the Indian's invaded the colonists villages?
What is land, anger, guns, retaliation, etc.
Name three things Bradstreet lost in the house fire.
What is chest, table, trunk, store, pleasant things.
Who is King Phillip?
What is the leader of the Indian tribe?
How did the Puritan's teat outsiders/non-Puritans?
What is contempt? They felt that other people/faith's were not correct, and they despised them for not being Puritan. They also tried to force others into being Puritan.
What is an extended metaphor?
What is a comparison that spans the length of several paragraphs to the whole story.
Name 3 ways the Indians were violent towards Rowlandson.
What is starving her, yelling/threatening, not providing medical care, holding her captive, etc.
Name three emotions that Bradstreet feels throughout the poem.
What did Rowlandson do for food and money?
What is sew hats and shirts?
How did the Puritan's think other people were viewing them?
What is "a city on a hill"? They thought everyone should and did have their eyes on them.
What is archaic language?
What is outdated/King James words: Thee, Thou, Thy, etc. Also words with different spellings: blest, oft, e'er, etc.
Name three ways the Indian's were good towards Rowlandson.
What is allow her to visit her children, feed her, pay her, invite her to stay/eat with them, treat her with kindness, etc.
How does Ann Bradstreet feel at the end of the poem? -Be specific!
What is peace? (She knows that God built her a house in Heaven and her hope lies above with God.)
How does Rowlandson maintain her faith throughout this narrative? -Be specific!
What is pray, read her bible, trust, and praise?
Name at least 3 rules that the Puritan's had to follow.
What is Read the bible, attend church, women work at home/children, men work for family, God is above all, children are seen and not heard, etc.
What is inverted syntax?
What is a reversed order of a sentence/ word order is reversed.
Why did the Indian Chief all Rowlandson to keep the money/tools/food she was given? - Be specific!
What is they wanted her to feel welcome, to trust them, to put forth her best efforts, they did not view her as a full 'slave' so to speak.