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Native American Myths
Puritan Sermons
Puritan Poetry
Narrative Accounts
Rhetoric
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Myths often feature these types of beings.
What are immortals/gods?
100
Jonathan Edwards uses descriptions of this in order to convince his listeners to change his ways.
What is Hell?
100
Huswifery describes these daily activities of Puritan life.
What are spinning and weaving?
100
John Smith describes the Native Americans he encounters this way.
What is uncivilized?
100
This ancient greek developed the rhetorical triangle.
Who is Aristotle?
200
The Earth on Turtle's Back explains the origin of this.
What is the earth?
200
Jonathan Edwards use of biblical quotations in his sermon relies on this type of rhetorical appeal.
What is logos?
200
These four elements are characteristic of Puritan Plain Style poetry.
What are simple words, direct statements, references to everyday objects and apostrophe?
200
Smith states that the Native Americans who capture him spared his life after killing his men for this reason.
What is they were awed by his power?
200
This type of appeal uses reason and logic.
What is logos?
300
When Grizzlies Walked Upright explains the origins of this.
What is people?
300
Jonathan Edwards' vivid descriptions of Hell were meant to do this.
What is frighten the audience?
300
The main emotion expressed in To My Dear and Loving Husband" is this.
What is love?
300
In Of Plymouth Plantation, "The Starving Time" refers to this.
What is Pilgrims first winter in the New World?
300
This type of appeal uses "timeliness".
What is kairos?
400
In the Navajo origin legend humans are made from these 3 things.
What are corn, buckskin and wind?
400
Of Hell, God and human beings, Jonathan Edwards states that this one is the most powerful.
What is God?
400
The best paraphrasing of the following statement is this. If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye women if you can.
What is no woman could be happier with her husband than I am?
400
William Bradford's accounts of the Pilgrims encounters with the Native Americans connect most strongly with this American holiday.
What is Thanksgiving?
400
The rhetorical triangle is composed of these three things.
What are speaker, subject and audience?
500
These stories explain about the creation of the earth, how life began and other things that are "just so".
What are origin myths?
500
The main purpose of Jonathan Edwards' sermon was this.
What is to persuade people to repent and return to Puritan beliefs?
500
In Huswifery, Edward Taylor uses an extended metaphor comparing himself to this.
What is a spinning wheel?
500
William Bradford describes Squanto as "a special instrument of God." What he means is this.
What is God wanted the pilgrims to succeed?
500
This rhetorical device uses similar grammatical structure in phrases or sentences to connect two ideas.
What is parallel structure or parallelism?