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Gulliver's Travels
American Jezebel
Miscellaneous
100

Which vocab word means "income"?

Revenue

100

Which vocab word means "wise, having good judgement"?

Prudent

100
Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?

Jonathan Swift

100
What is the name of the woman being accused of heresy?

Anne Hutchinson

100

This type of point of view features a narrator that uses "I" "me" or "my" pronouns in the story.

First-person point of view

200

Which vocab word means "unique in a way that is easily noticed"?

Distinct
200

Which vocab word means "having the skill to do something successfully"?

Competent

200

What are the 4-inch tall people called? 

Lilliputians

200

What genre is this text?

non-fiction/biography

200

This type of view has a narrator that uses pronouns such as "he" "she" or "they", but only knows one character's thoughts or feelings

Third-person limited

300

Which vocab word means "to search in order to locate something"?

Scour

300

Which vocab word means "conflict among people"?

Discord

300

What was the conflict between Lilliput and Blefescu? (What was their disagreement?)

They disagreed on which end to break an egg

300

What religious group made up the colony that Anne Hutchinson lived in?

The Puritans

300

This type of point of view is "all-knowing", meaning that the narrator knows all of the thoughts, feelings, and actions of all characters in the story.

Third-person omniscient

400

Which vocab word means "tended to the needs of a person, especially medical needs"?

Ministered

400

Which vocab word means "a formal written request typically signed by many people"?

Petitioning

400

Name the 3 different types of irony.

Verbal, situational, and dramatic irony

400

"Anne Hutchinson held meetings at her house, and they became very popular."

What is "they" referring to?

the meetings

400

What might be an author's purpose for writing a non-fiction text?

To educate or inform

500

Which vocab word means "a violent uprising against an authority or government"?

Insurrection

500

Which word means "to provide someone with shelter"?

Quartering
500

Name one thing that the author satirizes (makes fun of) in Gulliver's Travels?

Religion (Lilliput and Blefescu symbolize religious conflict between England and France) or Politics (Tramecksans and Slamecksans symbolize Whigs and Torries)
500

Name one reason the Puritans were threatened by Anne Hutchinson.

She was interpreting the bible in her own way, she started gaining popularity/followers, she was an influential woman, etc.
500

What was one problem with the Articles of Confederation?

No tax revenue, weak government (no judicial or executive branch), all states had to agree on amendments, all states had equal power