Terms
Jefferson/Wheatley
Thomas Paine
Ben Franklin
Misc.
100

A question asked but not to receive an answer. 

What is rhetorical question?

100

This founding document was mostly written by Jefferson.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

100

This famous singular pamphlet was written by Paine. 

What is Common Sense?

100

Why did Franklin write his Autobiorgraphy?

What is so that others can be as successful as he is and to show his son his life. 

100

These are the two main characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. 

Who is Eleanor and Marianna Dashwood?

200

The art of portraying a character through actions, speech, or appearance. 

What is characterization?

200

This famous poem by Wheatly shows the idea that God saves all. 

What is On Being Brought from Africa to America?

200

Paine uses this technique to bypass reason and use emotional appeal to persuade. 

What is propaganda?

200

This is the character flaw Franklin pointed out about himself. 

What is vanity?

200

This author wrote Green Eggs and Ham. 

What is Dr. Seuss?

300

Similarity in the structure of two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences. 

What is parallelism?

300

These three positions of government were held by Jefferson.

What is Vice President, President, and diplomat to France?

300

This is how Paine viewed the institutionalized church. 

What is as creating slaves of religious people for the purpose of profit and power?

300

Franklin did this to improve his writing.

What is copy and rewrite books?

300

This novel by Jane Austen follows the life of Elizabeth Bennett. 

What is Pride and Prejudice?

400

The use of syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meaning. 

What is antithesis?

400

Wheatley was the first African American to do this.

What is publish a book?

400

These are series of pamphlets Paine wrote that Washington had read to his troops. 

What is the American Crisis?

400

This preacher was good friends with Fanklin.

Who is George Whitefield?
400

"A Christmas Carol" was written by this man. 

Who is Charles Dickens?

500

Reasoning from a general truth to a specific conclusion.

What is deduction?

500

Wheatley said in her letter to Pastor Occom that all people want ____________.

What is freedom?

500
Paine uses a specific technique of deceiving his readers.

What is card stacking?

500

These three religious beliefs Franklin did NOT question. 

What is the existence of God, immorality of souls, and rewards/punishments in afterlife?

500

This is the worlds oldest surviving epic poem. 

What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?