This is a reference to a person, place, or event that the author expects will be familiar to readers.
What is an allusion?
100
These are the two events that happened on November 11, 1620.
What is the landing on Cape Cod and the writing/signing of The Mayflower Compact?
100
This is another word for the guards who were posted to keep watch through the night?
What are sentinels?
200
This is when the subject is doing the action.
What is active voice?
200
He stayed with the Pilgrims and was referred to as "a special instrument sent of God."
Who is Squanto?
200
These are techniques writers use to communicate ideas and to support their purpose.
What are rhetorical techniques?
200
What is the author's purpose of telling the story of the "lusty," "haughty," seaman who was the first one to die and go overboard?
What is to show that God punishes those who do wrong?
200
This the way that divers days of prosperous winds would affect the ship's voyage.
What is the ship would be moved quickly.
300
This is when writers use out-of-date words and/or several ideas in one sentence separated by commas and semi-colons.
What is Archaic language?
300
He was the first governor chosen to serve upon their landing at Cape Cod.
Who is John Carver?
300
This is what you do when you are asked to put the author's words into your own.
What is paraphrase?
300
This is the author's purpose in sharing the story of Moses sending out spies in the Valley of Eschol.
What is to show how the Pilgrims saw themselves as traveling to "the promised land." Like Moses' spies to Eschol, their scouts returned with "fruits" from the land.
300
This is the word that would describe the Pilgrims' decision to meet at night to set up camp and sleep.
What is rendezvous?
400
This is when the action is being received by the subject.
What is passive voice?
400
He was the first Indian to come forward and speak to the Pilgrims, acquainting them with what was happening in the eastern parts of the country.
Who is Samoset?
400
This is another term used to refer to the author's central idea.
What is theme?
400
This is the purpose that can be inferred when the author describes the foul weather, the savages and the dead fish on the sand?
What is to understand the hardships the Pilgrims faced when they arrived?
400
All of the following words except one are used to describe what would have given succor to the Pilgrims upon their arrival to Cape Cod: friends, houses, inns, savages.
What are savages?
500
This is the writer's choice of words.
What is diction?
500
These are two of those who assisted with the sick during the Pilgrims' first winter in the New World.
Who are William Brewster and Myles Standish?
500
When the author's purpose is not clearly stated, the reader may do this by looking for clues within the text.
What is to infer?
500
This is the central idea of the treaty between Massassoit and the Pilgrims.
What is to show that the Indians and the Pilgrims could peacefully coexist/live together.
500
The fact that the Pilgrims planned to explore the area around Cape Cod and return to the ship is an example of which critical vocabulary word?