Early American Literature

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Early American Literature

• Review for test on Friday!

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Literary terms

• 1. a comparison made between two things to show
  how alike they are
• 2. a brief story told to illustrate a point or
  serve as an example of something 
• 3. a startling extended metaphor or other figure
  of speech that makes a surprising, even shocking,
  connection between two different things. The
  connection can be witty, strange, exaggerated, or
  cleverly elaborate.
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• 4. a comparison between two very different
  things
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• 5. words or phrases that compare one thing to
  another, unlike thing.
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• 6. a clue that suggests what might happen
  further into the story
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• 7. the use of language to evoke a picture of
  concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place,
  or an experience
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• 8. an educated guess based on clues in the text
  and your own prior knowledge and experience
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• 9. the words of a sentence or phrase are
  wrenched out of our normal English syntax, or
  word order
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• 10. the repetition of words or phrases that have
  similar grammatical structures.

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• 11. uses uncomplicated sentences and everyday
  words
• 12. a special type of inference, an educated
  guess about what will happen later
• 13. the distinctive way in which a writer uses
  language

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Authors!

• wrote A Summary View of the Rights of British
  America a call for the rejection of parliamentary
  authority chosen to him draft the declaration of
  independence
• Helped America develop its own literary voice
  genius for inventing comic fictional narrators
• Inspired by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
  Coleridge interest in the philosophy of deism

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• 4. Most popular American poet second wife died
  after her dress caught fire, after her death he
  devoted himself to writing
• 5. When he moved to America his wife either fell
  or jumped off the boat great leader of the
  colony tried to hold the religious community
  together
• 6. Wrote Coyote Finishes His Work

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• 7. First African writer to reach a sizable
  audience of American readers born in West Africa
  (now Nigeria)
• 8. Found inspiration in Shakespeare and other
  great poets Her faith is often the subject of
  her poems
• 9. Imaginative writing Puritan only one book of
  poetry found in his library when he diedAnne
  Bradstreets

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• 10. Fire and brimstone preaching helped to bring
  about the Great Awakening known for his
  extremism in his sermons, did not hesitate to
  call out the people he thought were relapsing
  into sin.
• 11. Devoted to improvement diplomat and
  negotiator witty and charming
• 12. The most persuasive writer of the American
  Revolution Was tried for treason in England even
  though he didnt live there