American Literature Unit 1

Led the Puritan colony at Massachusetts Bay and recorded the first two decades of existence

Mary Rowlandson curses God and wishes to die after discovering what happened to her child

genre of works that relate the capture, sufferings, escape, and rescue of the narrator

Toward the end of the 18th century, most writers

Once the colonists were established, the subject matter of literature became...

personal preferences that inhibit one from seeing the value of others' judgments

narrator's perspective that is outside the story; uses he, she, they

narrative elements that appear in stories across cultures and speak to human experiences

Which is not a major change affecting Early American writers?

signs from the OT that prefigure Christ

What was the unexpected result of Captain Smith's capture?

references to people, places, events, or works of literature

process of presenting claims and providing reasons to support those claims

references to the writings of ancient Greece or Rome

arguments intended to appeal to a person's logical, emotional, or ethical sensibilities

What had to occur before a distinctly American literature could exist?

author's reason for writing

To what biblical character did Cotton Mather compare John Winthrop?

interpretation of events, people, places, and ceremonies of OT prefiguring NT realities

type of writing that uses clarity, simplicity, and scarcity of elaborate figurative expression

True Renaissance adventurer; wrote the earliest accounts of the Virginia and New England

Survived a massacre and wrote the first Indian captivity narrative

Plymouth Plantation's chief legal, judicial, and executive counselor; a Separatist

description of a culture's idea of how the world came to be

author's attitude toward a subject

system of beliefs and values through which one views the world

What did the colonists prefer to do instead of tending to the essentials of the English colony?

claims that challenge the validity of the initial claim

writing intended to instruct

main idea of the text

Who were the two leaders of the Great Awakening?

story that uses supernatural forces to explain aspect of life

Mary Rowlandson's work is a good example of

passing down of cultural knowledge by mouth from generation to generation

way a story is told or the position from which the narrator presents story elements

John Smith was a soldier, slave, and pirate

word choice

primary purpose of literature in early America was entertainment

thesis or assertion that one makes about a topic

account of a historical event with characters who are real people; told by narrator

John Winthrop's journal focuses on

What coined term referred to a transitional New England colonist?

references to people, places, events, or passages in the Bible

What type of liberty does man have in common with animals?

main motive behind the early migrations to New England was religious

evidence; essential to the validity of the claim

The earliest writers wrote mostly about...