1. America’s first female poet!
Anne Bradstreet
America’s first female poet!

2. Writing Style:
Puritan Plain Style – straightforward, simple and direct writing which involves religious themes, theological ideas, and morals.
Apostrophe – a figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing
Inversion – Irregular sentence structure, such as:
Placing an adjective after the noun it qualifies e.g. the soldier strong
Placing a verb before its subject e.g. shouts the policeman
Placing a noun before its preposition e.g. worlds between

3. Purpose of Specific Writing Styles
Plain Style – used by Puritans to reflect how they spoke
Apostrophe – used to make a poem more personal
Inversion - Used by a poet in order to maintain a rhyme scheme