Who is this Puritan poet that
wrote poems about the
difficulties of Puritan life in
poem like
“Upon the Burning of My House”
and
“To My Dear and Loving Husband?”
Anne Bradstreet’s poem
“Upon the Burning of Our House” demonstrates
which of facets of Puritan faith?
A. The
B. The
C. The
goods
D. All
belief in predetermination
belief that heaven is better than earth
rejection of attachment to worldly
are correct
During difficult times Anne Bradstreet
remained hopeful because of this.
What is it?
Whose PURPOSE for writing was to show the
development of a Godly community?
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. William Bradford
In William Bradford’s “Of Plymouth
Planation,” what two things did Bradford
say helped the Pilgrims survive?
True or False
When William Bradford
said that “God of Heaven had brought them
over” and “Squanto continued with them and
was their interpreter and was a special
instrument sent of God” he is showing how
religious faith helped the Puritan
settlers.
The purpose of Johnathan Edward’s sermon
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is
to evoke what kids of emotion from the
audience?
True or False
Johnathan Edwards uses
descriptive images to describe a persons
powerless in comparison to God’s wrath.
He says the only hope for salvation is by
doing good deeds.
Who attempted to be objective but
displayed evidence of bias in his writings
about the Salem Witch trials?
We move into Revolutionary writing in the
1700’s. Where Puritan writing was based
on faith the Revolutionary writing is
based on this.
The call it the “Age of _____________”
Who was the oldest founding father. He
wrote an autobiography that discussed his
attempt at moral perfection?
Who was the oldest founding father. He
wrote an autobiography that discussed his
attempt at moral perfection?
A revolution is a sudden and dramatic…
What ?
Was the revolution and rebellion described
as a last resort in the Declaration of
Independence?
Yes or No
Where does the Declaration of Independence
say that the unalienable rights come from?
Who wrote an impassioned speech titled
“The Crisis” which started with, “These
are the times that try men’s soul?”
Paine attempts to anger his audience when
he compares America’s relationship to
England to the bondage of what?
In The Devil and Tom Walker, Tom Walker
and his wife are described a miserly.
Would you say they could be described as
A.Loving but misunderstood
B.Greedy and careless
Washington Irving based The Devil and Tom
Walker on legend of Faust which comes from
a German ____________________.
The title of Thanatopsis tells the
meaning of the poem.
It means ___________ view
or seeing ___________.
Does Thanatopsis express feelings of fear
about death?
Yes
or
No
Romantic literature looked to nature for
inspiration. They celebrated imagination
and __________________
Clue: “without the need for conscious
reasoning.”
We move from Revolutionary literature… to
Romanticism… to Transcendentalist who
believed that we are all united through a
shared universal soul.
GOD, MAN, and __________.
Was there concern about the rights of
women, children and slaves during the
Revolutionary period?
Yes
or
No
Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden about his
experience living alone for two years,
which shows his unity with nature. He also
wrote this which later influenced people
like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He
tells how he refused to pay taxes as he
didn’t support the Mexican-American war,
which he believed expanded slavery. What
was the title?
What do people who believe in Civil
Disobedience say about unjust laws?