Native American Literature
This type of story is often religious in nature, and it explains a belief, ritual, or mysterious natural phenomenon.
What is a myth?
To Which Biblical character did Cotton Mather compare John Winthrop?
Who is Nehemiah
Survived a massacre and wrote the first and most notable Indian-captivity narrative.
Who is Mary Rowlandson?
In How the World Began, who does the fire beast resemble
Who Satan?
A type of writing that uses clarity, simplicity, and scarcity of figurative expression.
What is plain style
According to How the World Began, what kind of plant grew in the center of the world?
What is a tree?
What term means to instruct
What is didactic?
This was Plymouth Plantation's chief legal, judicial, and executive counselor, a Separatist
Who is William Bradford?
What substance did Good Mind use to create man?
What is clay/dirt?
A system of beliefs and values through which one views the world.
What is worldview?
According to How the World Began, how did Sky Woman's daughter die?
What is her son killed her?
According to John Winthrop, which type of liberty does man have in common with animals?
What is natural liberty?
True Renaissance adventurer, wrote the earliest accounts of the Virginia and New England settlements
Who is John Smith
One difference between the men-beings in How the World Began and the Biblical account?
What is God created one man and one woman--not multiples; God did not speak, but breathed man into existence?
Personal preferences that inhibit one from seeing the potential value of others' judgments.
What is bias?
How does Good Mind create the sun and moon?
What is he throws his mother's face and breast into the sky?
Identify one of the two leading figures of the Great Awakening.
Who is Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield
Respected as an expert on Indian affairs as well as an ethnologist and historian, specialized in Iroquois Indians.
Who is Arthur Parker
Mary Rowlandson's narrative is a good example of what?
What is captivity narrative?
A reference to literature, history, mythology, or the Bible
What is an allusion?
In the Constitution of the Five Nations, the Tree of the Great Long Leaves is a symbol of what?
What is peace?
The first consciously American Voices began to speak through literature after what major event?
What is the Revolutionary War
Led the Puritan colony at Massachusetts Bay and recorded their first two decades of existence.
Who is John Winthrop?
Mary Rowlandson's captivity took place during which Indian War?
What is King Philip's War?
A universal symbol, character, setting, or event that appear in stories across cultures and speak to universal human experiences in literature.
What is an archetype?