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Literature
Native American and Exploration
Anne Bradstreet
Mary Rowlandson
Sinners
100
Uses words such as I, we, and my when telling a story.
What is 1st person narrator?
100
Native American Literature is often this.
What is a myth?
100
An unexpected event cause embarrassment in Bradstreet.
What happened when Bradstreet's poetry got published?
100
A tragic event that occurs in Rowlandson's life that causes her to write a narrative.
What is kidnapped during the raid at Lancaster?
100
"The use of this awful subject may be for awakening unconverted persons in this congregation."
What is the purpose of the sermon?
200
All knowing perspective of characters in a plot.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
200
This explorer wrote about his exploration of Virginia.
Who is John Smith?
200
A Poem that was written in order to grieve and then thank god for "sufficient for us left".
What is "Upon the Burning of Our House"?
200
After the loss of her 6 year old daughter, Rowlandson does this.
What is pray and stay faithful to God?
200
"but the mere pleasure of God"
What is repetition?
300
This popular theme in American Literature is seen in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
What are Protestant Beliefs?
300
A war that broke out in the Native American's attempt to stick up for themselves.
What is King Phillip's War?
300
I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold.
What is imagery?
300
Rowlandson was given this by the "Praying Ind".
What is a bible?
300
An intentional method of making a speech or text more effective.
What is rhetoric?
400
Two major themes in American Literature that are a big reason the Europeans came to the New World, and are seen in literature of this time period.
What are political independence and religious freedom?
400
The Native Americans traded knowledge of the land for this.
What are firearms, weapons, and textiles?
400
Thou hast an house on high erect Fram'd by that mightly Architect.
What is symbolism?
400
It took Rowlandson 3 weeks for this to actually taste and smell good to her when cooked.
What is a horses leg?
400
"If God should only withdraw His hand from the floodgate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God, would rush forth with fury, and would come upon you with omnipotent power. . . "
What is alliteration?
500
The most important element in deciding whether or not something is considered to be literature.
What is "endure the test of time"?
500
The Native Americans came to America thousands of years before the Europeans arrived by this.
What is the Berring Land Bridge?
500
The shift in "Upon the Burning of Our House".
What is it when Bradstreet goes from mourning the loss of her materialistic goods then realizes that her real, indestructible house lies above, in heaven?
500
The Native Americans were ill prepared to capture the colonists.
Why were the Native Americans constantly on the run, without food, and having to trade Native Americans for everyday objects?
500
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
What is personification?