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Rowlandson
Edwards and
Ben Franklin
and more
Taylor
Taylor
Patrick Henry Grab Bag
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“Love your neighbor; yet don’t pull
down your hedge.”
“Three may keep a secret if two of
them are dead.”
What are examples of Ben
Franklin’s aphorisms from Poor
Richard’s Almanack?
According to Franklin, this is
the most important virtue and
therefore the first he will try
to achieve.
What is Temperance?
A way of thinking that emphasizes
reason, scientific inquiry, and the belief
that humans can achieve happiness and
moral fulfillment through their own
efforts instead of through belief in God.
What is humanism?
This is the title of a chapter in
Franklin’s Autobiography, and it
is important because it illustrates
his belief in humanist ideals.
What is “Arriving at Moral
Perfection”?
Franklin’s Autobiography is
autobiographical and
narrated in the 1st person.
Franklin’s 13 virtues are
based in Puritan values.
What are similarities between
Franklin’s Autobiography and
Rowlandson’s Narrative of the
Captivity?
This is the genre of “Sinners
in the Hands of an Angry
God”
What is a sermon?
These are the three conceits from
Jonathan Edward’s “Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God.”
What are the comparison of
unsaved people to spiders, of the
wrath of God to damned waters,
and of God’s wrath to an arrow
aimed at the heart of sinners?
An extensive or elaborate
metaphor.
What is a conceit?
This is Jonathan Edward’s
purpose in using graphic
figurative language.
What is to make real the concept of
sin and its punishment by making the
audience feel the punishment.
“Thy Holy Word my
Distaff make for me.” from Edward Taylor’s
“Huswifery”
What is an example of
inversion?
This is the genre of Narrative of the Captivity by Mary Rowlandson.
What is a personal
narrative? (Relate this to
the fact that Rowlandson
was a Puritan.)
This is Mary Rowlandson’s
main intention or purpose in
Narrative of the Captivity.
What is to show how her
experience revealed God’s
purpose and to praise God.
This is the primary
allusion in Rowlandson’s
Narrative of the
Captivity.
What is “Now I may say as,
Psalm 137:1, ‘By the rivers of
Babylon, there we sat down:
yea, we wept when we
remembered Zion.’”
This is the meaning of
“Huswifery,” the title of
Edward Taylor’s poem.
What is “the care and
management of a household”?
A description of each stanza
of Edward Taylor’s poem,
“Huswifery.”
What is: in stanza 1 the poem
describes the making of thread; in
stanza 2 the poem describes
making cloths; in stanza 3 the
poem describes making a robe.
“Shall we resort to entreaty
and humble supplication?
What terms shall we find
which have not been already
exhausted?”
What is an example of
rhetorical questions?
“We have petitioned; we have
remonstrated; we have
supplicated; we have
prostrated ourselves before
the throne.”
What is an example of
Parallel Structure?
“I consider it as nothing less
than a question of freedom or
slavery.”
What is an example
of an appeal to
pathos?
“I have but one lamp by which my
feet are guided; and it is the lamp of
experience. . . . And judging by the
past. I wish to know what there has
been in the conduct of the British
ministry for the last ten years, to
justify those hopes”
What is an example of
an appeal to logos?
This is the year and the
place that Patrick Henry
delivered his “Speech to the
Virginia Convention.”
What are 1775 and St. John’s
Church in Richmond, VA?
The four “P’s” of
writings from the
revolutionary period.
What are
Persuasive,
Practical, Political,
and Pamphlets?
The belief that people can
arrive at truth by using reason,
rather than by relying on the
authority of the past, on
religious faith, or on intuition.
What is Rationalism?
Logos, Pathos and Ethos
What are the three types of
persuasive appeals: an appeal to
logic, an appeal to emotion, and
an appeal based on the authority
of the speaker/author?
Inversion, Plain Style, personal
narratives and histories, praise for
God, writing to discover God’s role in
their lives.
What are characteristics of
Puritan literature?
Part of the Great Awakening, he is
considered by many to be the last
of the true Puritans.
Who is Jonathan
Edwards?