BJU American Literature Unit 2 Review

What type of stanza is "composed of lines of iambic pentameter rhymed in pairs?"

How many lines does a quatrain have?

What means "an address to an absent person, abstraction, or object"?

What means "an imaginative comparison of two dissimilar things?"

What does Anne Bradstreet compare the sun to in "Contemplations"?

Edward Taylor's poem "God's Determinations" talks about

What was the core of the Puritan worldview?

What is the overall theme of Bradstreet's "Contemplations"?

What type of meter is used in The Bay Psalm Book?

"When we live no more, we may live ever" is an example of what literary device?

What is the name of the 1st book printed in the English colonies?

The contrast in "The Courteous Pagan" is between

What 3 jobs did Taylor do in Boston?

What prompted Edward Taylor to leave England?

"Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain" is an example of what 2 literary devices?

What word means "divisions of a poem based on thought, meter, or rhyme"?

This term means the"regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line [of poetry]?

What uses "a standard hymn meter; lines are iambic"?

Who was the first colonial poet to write a considerable volume of work?

What occupation is a metaphor for God in "the Burning of our House"?

What does Taylor compare himself to in "Huswifery"

What means "artful deviations from literal speech or normal word order"?

What means "each two or three syllable unit in a line of poetry"?

What do the spider and the fly represent in "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly"?

What did Williams do during the last 4 decades of his life?