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Age of Faith
Age of Reason
Vocabulary
People of the Age of Faith and Age of Reason
Grammar
100
When did the Age of Faith end?
What is the 1750s
100
What was another name for the age of reason?
What is the enlightenment
100
What is another word for repayment?
What is Recompense
100
Who was captured by Natives and wrote a narrative about her time in captivity?
Who is Mary Rowlandson
100
What is the term for asking a question that is not supposed to be answered
What is a rhetorical question
200
What religion did the pilgrims in Plymouth follow?
What is Puritanism
200
What genre of writing was mostly produced during this time?
What is Non-Fiction or political
200
What is an antonym for easy?
What is arduous
200
Who said "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry
200
What are the two ways speeches are meant to persuade listeners?
What is emotional and logical persuasion
300
What were the battles fought between the colonists and Natives in New England called?
What is King Philips War
300
Writing during the Age of Reason became more _____ than in the Age of Faith?
What is public
300
Unlawful seizures of rights and privileges?
What is Usurpations
300
Which man who is also considered the best early colonial poet walked 100 miles in snow to his new house?
Who is Edward Taylor
300
What are words that are meant to spark emotion in a speech called?
What are charged words
400
What was the title of the sermon delivered by Jonathan Edwards about hell?
What is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
400
What famous pamphlet was produced this time?
What is Common Sense
400
Anglo-Saxon suffix that means a number of times or ways
What is -fold
400
Mary Rowlandson and her family lived in what colonial town before it was burned down?
What is Lancaster, Massachusetts
400
What are traditional folk sayings that usually are for wisdom called?
What are proverbs
500
What is the time of writing that includes short words, direct statements, and references to the ordinary?
What is Puritan Plain Style
500
What form of informative writing began in America during the Age of Reason?
What is newspapers and magazines
500
What do you do when you squander?
What is spend of use wastefully
500
What were two of Benjamin Franklin's pen names?
What is Silence Dogood, Richard Saunders, and Poor Richard's Almanack
500
What is the difference between repetition and restatement?
What is repetition is the same sentence or fragment over and over while restatement is repeating ideas in different ways