first to promote separation of church and state
Roger Williams
founded Rhode Island
Roger Williams
book about the Native American language
Key into the Language of America
first book printed in the English colonies
Bay Psalm Book
the Bay Psalm Book used this pattern
common meter
the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
meter
each two or three syllable unit in a line of poetry
poetic foot
most common foot in English; unstressed, stressed
iamb (iambic pentameter)
8 syllables, 6 syllables, 8 syllables, 6 syllables
common meter
true or false: Roger Williams thought that the land wasn’t truly theirs if they bought it from King George, but not the natives
true; he thought it was unfair to take the natives’ land
Anne Bradstreet’s book, published by her brother-in-law
Tenth Muse
metaphysical poet who wrote “The Author to Her Book”
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet imitated ____
Edmund Spenser
imaginative comparison of two dissimilar things
metaphor
comparison using like or as
simile
gives human characteristics to nonhuman objects or entities
personification
an address to an absent person, abstraction, or object
apostrophe
the metaphor in “The Author to Her Book”
compares the book to a child
personification in Contemplations by Bradstreet
sun and oak tree
Biblical allusions in Bradstreet’s “the Burning of Our House”
Job
a striking, often elaborate comparison carried out in considerable detail
conceit
a statement that seems to be self-contradictory yet actually makes sense when understood in the right context
paradox
most famous sermon in American history
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
preached Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards
