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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?