2.   Owned few possessions  Dressed modestly and uniformly  Frowned on creative expression The Puritans

3.   People are predestined for Heaven or for Hell; they do not have free will  Purest communities are completely open to one another  Close relationships  Rely on each other for survival  Value hard work and self-reliance Puritan Beliefs

4.   Reflects their lives—spare, simple, straightforward  Short words  Direct statements  References to ordinary, everyday objects  Belief that poetry should serve God by clearly expressing only useful or religious ideas  Poetry appealing to senses/emotions was dangerous Puritan Plain Style

5.   Paradox- statement that may sound reasonable but is logically unacceptable or self-contradictory  Example: I am a compulsive liar.  Contradictory. Is the person lying now when he says this?  Example: I’m nobody.  Come up with your own example now Terms

6.   Phrase used in John Winthrop’s sermon “A Model of Christian Charity”  Given aboard the Arbella not long before reaching New England in 1630  Referred to their new place in New England as a “city on a hill” that would be watched by the world in order to inspire Puritans “City Upon a Hill”

7.   What does “city upon a hill” really mean?  Being in plain view  Not necessarily meaning being perfect  First puritan group to settle in America, so everyone was looking to see what would happen  Historically speaking, previous colonies had not been successful  Disappearance of Roanoke  Horrors of Jamestown “City Upon a Hill”