1. Beginnings to 1750
Junior Language Arts

2. Background Information
Native Americans were the first settlers in North America
Colonists from Europe did not begin arriving until the late 1500s
Religious reformers called Puritans sailed from England on the Mayflower in 1620

3. Native American Myths
Explain customs, institutions, or religious rites
Natural landmarks
Events beyond people’s control
Use oral tradition

4. Pilgrims vs. Puritans
Pilgrims, or Separatists, wanted to withdraw from the Church of England
Puritans wanted to reform or “purify” the church from within; they wanted to create a theocracy

5. Puritan Beliefs Human beings exist for the glory of God
Predestination (John Calvin)
Thought they could accomplish good only through continual hard work and self-discipline

6. The Great Awakening Early 1700s, Puritanism was in a decline
In 1720, religious revivals, known as The Great Awakening, were led by ministers, such as Jonathan Edwards
This was done in hopes of reviving the puritan ways and beliefs
It did little to revive old-fashioned Puritanism

7. Literature of the period
Native American Tradition: myths, folktales, etc.
Explorer’s Accounts
Slave Narratives
Religious writings
Southern Writers

8. Literary Terms

9. Plain Style: Way of writing that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression
Archaisms: obsolete words
Allusion: reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, sports, politics, science, or some other branch of culture
Inversions: reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase
Anaphora: repetition of a word or words at the beginning of a line, clause, or sentence

10. More Terms! You know you love it!
Myth: traditional stories passed down from generation to generation
Slave Narrative: autobiographical account of life as a slave
Apostrophe: a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified object, quality, or idea

11. We’re almost done with terms!
Point of View: the vantage point from which the writer tells a story
Rhetorical Question: a question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer
Tone: attitude a writer takes toward the subject of the work, the characters in it, or the audience
Persuasion: form of discourse that uses reason and emotional appeals to convince another person to think or act a certain way

12. Last literary terms!
Parallelism: repetition of grammatically similar words, phrases, clauses, sentences, to emphasize a point or stir emotion of a reader
Oratory: formal public speaking

13. The End!