Leaders of the Enlightenment
A movement of the eighteenth century when philosophers looked to "human reason" instead of God to better understand mankind.
What was the Enlightenment?
Benjamin Franklin was the only one to sign all four of these famous US documents.
What are Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain, and the Constitution of the United States?
The French and Indian War was undeniably related to this larger conflict.
What was the Seven Years' War?
The telling of a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
What is narration?
A comparison of two seemingly unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
He was born in Paris, France in 1694 with the name Francois-Marie Arouet. He later changed his name to something more aristocratic-sounding.
Who was Voltaire?
The strange drawing of a snake cut into eight pieces that Ben Franklin brought to the Albany Congress had these words in BOLD on it.
JOIN, or DIE.
He was the young Virginian who was sent to French-held forts in the Ohio Valley to tell the French to get out.
Who was George Washington?
An appeal is made when the speaker of an essay or speech asks his audience to do or believe something.
What is an appeal?
A comparison of two seemingly unlike things without "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
Enlightenment thinkers liked to call themselves this term expressed that they were "students of society" who analyzed the evils of humanity and tried to make society better.
What are philosophes?
This conflict drew Ben Franklin into politics.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was a large group of French settlers in Canada who were cruelly expelled by the British.
Who were the Acadians?
A sentence that makes the main argument of an essay or speech. If someone asks, "What's your point?" The answer is this.
What is a thesis?
The repetition of the initial consonant sound of consecutive or near consecutive words.
Example: Golden and glittering, the gilded gaunlet fell amongst the fallen foe.
What is alliteration?
The belief that God created the universe, but then basically abandoned it until the Last Judgment. It is also the belief that God is not involved in the day-to-day affairs of men, or that men and women can have a relationship with God.
What is deism?
These were some of the inventions of Benjamin Franklin that were mentioned in The Mystery of History. (You must get at least three of these to get the points)
What were the lightning rod, an iron stove, bifocals, swim fins, a glass harmonica, and a device for retrieving books from high shelves.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie was a famous poem that commemorates the distressing treatment of the French Acadians by the British. It was written by this famous American poet and educator.
Who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
This is a topic of invention that shows the other side of the coin. If discussing "friends", then a discussion of "enemies", can help sharpen the image of friends.
What is opposite?
Words that sound like what they mean.
What is onomatopoeia?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in Geneva in 1712. What was Rousseau's most famous work that he wrote? (Hint: It fueled the American Revolution and the French Revolution with ideas.)
What was The Social Contract?
This was a clever calendar and handbook for farmers and families that included Franklin's witty sayings. For years to come, these were found in nearly every home in the Thirteen Colonies.
What was Poor Richard's Almanack?
These were the names of three of the forts that the French established near the Great Lakes and into the Ohio River Valley.
What were Fort Niagra, Fort Detroit, and Fort Duquesne (Doo KANE)?
The quotation of wise and supporting words from an authority on the subject.
What is testimony?
The intentional leaving out of conjunctions for a quick or abrupt effect.
Example: The ship split, sputtered, sunk.
What is asyndeton?