The Age of Reason occurred during this time period.
What is the 1700s?
100
His famous speech ends with the line, "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
100
Political speeches, essays, and literary _____________ are three types of literature we studied in the Age of Reason.
What are letters?
100
Patrick Henry's "Speech in the ______________ Convention" was a rousing speech persuading colonists to take up arms against England.
What is Virginia?
100
Jean Guilleme deCrevoceour wrote an essay entitled "What is an __________?"
What is American?
200
The conflict during the Revolutionary period was between the American colonies and ___________.
What is England?
200
This revolutionary figure penned "The Declaration of Independence."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
A literary letter is an example of a primary/secondary source?
What is primary?
200
"Lost time is never found again" is an example of an ________________.
What is aphorism?
200
In "What is an American?" deCreveceour compares America to a ________________.
What is melting pot?
300
John Locke proposed the "natural rights" of the right to ________, the right to _____________, and the right to ________.
What are life, liberty, and own property?
300
This author attempted to achieve moral perfection, and also wrote many witty aphorisms published in Poor Richard's Almanac.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
Thomas Paine used logic, emotional, and _____________ appeals in his essay "The Crisis."
What is ethical?
300
Thomas Paine describes his own line of reasoning as being "as strait and clear as a ray of light." This is an example of which type of figurative language?
What is a simile?
300
One of the complaints of the American colonists is summarized in the phrase "no taxation without _________________"
What is representation?
400
Complete the sentence: "No man need obey a government that violates the will of ______________ as defined in the Bible."
What is God?
400
This author wrote a letter to her husband, highlighting the unfair treatment of women by their husbands who were at the same time organizing for freedom from England.
Who is Abigail Adams?
400
This is a rhetorical technique that repeats the same grammatical forms to stress ideas of equal importance.
What is parallelism?
400
Patrick Henry refers to Ezekiel 12;2 in the Bible, which speaks of "who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not." This is an example of an ______________.
What is allusion?
400
This English philosopher proposed his theory of "natural rights."
Who is John Locke?
500
The Age of Reason is also referred to as the period of ________________.
What is Enlightenment?
500
This African American author wrote a letter to Reverend Samson Occum, agreeing with his assessment of the hypocrisy of slave owners during this Revolutionary period.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
500
This term refers to the technique of expressing contrasting ideas in a grammatically balanced statement, and the second "part" of the sentence is set in opposition to the first.
What is antithesis?
500
Another word for the "foreword" in Thomas Jefferson's public document "The Declaration of Independence" is _________________.
What is preamble?
500
Phillis Wheatley wrote a letter to this minister in response to the epistle he wrote to her.