Native American Literature
What animal symbolizes perseverance in “Earth on Turtle’s Back?
Muskrat
Why did Olaudah Equiano write his narrative?
Sway public opinion on slavery
What is the name of this style of writing, which is clear and direct, focuses on everyday life and objects, and paraphrases the Bible
Puritan Plain Style
What term means “meant to teach a moral lesson”?
didactic
According to his "General History of Virginia," this man is responsible for the success of the Jamestown colony.
John Smith
What creature, seen as existing between the human and spirit worlds, is found in all 3 Native American pieces we read
Birds (eagles and swans)
What is the name of the Native American girl who helped John Smith and the Jamestown residents survive that first winter?
Pocahontas
What is one of the everyday objects focused upon in “Huswifery”?
spinning wheel or loom
Anne Bradstreet wrote “Upon the Burning of Her House" using this rhyme pattern where each set of two lines rhymes
Couplet
This author was kidnapped and enslaved when he was just 11 years old.
Olaudah Equiano
According to the Navajo Origin Legend, this is what gives humans life, and when it stops, means we are dead
wind
Reading 17th century literature can be hard because some of the language is out of date and no longer in use. What is the term that means out of date?
Archaic
According to Jonathan Edwards, what is the only way to avoid the pit of hell all sinners belong in?
Repent now and be reborn
What do you call it when the normal structure or order of sentence parts or words is changed
Inversion
This author believed she had "a house on high erect, / Fram'd by that Mighty Architect [God]"
Anne Bradstreet
The Iroquois Constitution establishes a form of government and establishes a list of values for whom?
Leaders
What is the name of the voyage from the way stations in Africa to the slave markets in the Americas (the focus of Equiano's narrative)?
the Middle Passage
Why does Anne Bradstreet thank God in “Upon the Burning of Our House”?
Because he reminded her that she had become too focused on material goods and was losing her focus on God and heaven
What is the poetic term for speaking to someone who is either not present or not real as if that person were real and present?
Apostrophe
This pastor was known for fiery sermons about the wrath of God and the pits of hell waiting for all sinners
We read a Native American myth, a legend, and a constitution. Describe the style of Native American literature.
Simple, repetitive, focused on celebrating the relationship between man and nature and the spirit world, using simple similes and metaphors, establishing an egalitarian view of men and women
What is the term for the idea that something good happens only through the direct help of God
Divine Intervention
What is the speaker in “Huswifery” asking for?
For God to rework him from a sinner into a man whose entire being glorifies God
“Huswifery” is written as an elaborate and extended metaphor. What is the term for this kind of metaphor?
Conceit
This tribe captured its origin story in “The Earth on Turtle’s Back”?
the Onondaga