These genres are most often seen in Native American literature.
What are myths, folktales, and legends.
100
The fox, coyote, and snake often represent this character archetype.
What is the trickster figure?
100
This is the method by which Native Americans spread their myths.
What is the oral tradition?
100
This best describes the diction in Native American literature.
What is simplistic?
100
This is how the syntax in Native American literature was different from that of Colonialist literature.
What is the syntax of Native American literature was short and simple while the syntax in Colonialist literature was long and complex?
200
These genres are most often seen in colonialist literature.
What are journals, diaries, and letters.
200
This is the literary device used by Native Americans to paint a clear picture of the land that surrounded them.
What is imagery?
200
This is what "Navajo Origin Legend" attempted to explain.
What is the origin of their tribe and the idea that humans came from corn?
200
Though this is not really present in the Native American myths, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins uses this kind of change as she's retelling her experiences in the Piute tribe.
What is a tonal shift?
200
This is something the Native Americans revered that the colonists had little to no regard for.
What is nature?
300
This is why the Native Americans wrote their myths.
What is to explain phenomena?
300
This was a motif seen in "Life Among the Piutes" that contributed to the theme of respecting nature.
What are flowers?
300
All of Native American myths were produced prior to this date. (Think Columbus)
What is 1492?
300
This best describes the syntax in Native American literature.
What is short, simple, and easy to remember?
300
Both the Native Americans and the Colonialists thought this about man and life. (Man is naturally... Outlook on life...)
What is man is naturally good and life has an optimistic outlook?
400
This is John Smith's audience in "The General History of Virginia".
Who are the aristocracy in England?
400
This is a theme we saw in "Grizzlies".
What is every action has a consequence?
400
This is the phenomena the Seneca attempted to explain in "Spring Defeats Winter".
What is the changing of the seasons?
400
This best describes the voice of John Smith in "A General History of Virginia".
What is manipulative/calculating/pompous?
400
He saves the day in "The General History of Virginia", but is never mentioned in the Native American literature.
Who is God?
500
These are the two things Native Americans showed respect for more than any other American population.
What are animals and nature?
500
In "Turtles," this is the character archetype that the woman's child would represent.
Who is the Adam archetype?
500
John Smith wrote "A General History of Virginia" during this century.
What is the seventeenth century?
500
This is the reason why colonialists wrote the way they did.
What is to impress monarchs/backers back home with their writing?
500
This figurative language term is used much less often in colonialist literature than in Native American literature.