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$100- Puritanism
Fill in the Blank:
All are damned to hell unless saved by ___________________________________.
$100 God’s Grace
$200-Puritanism
True or False:
Puritans were democratic.
Explain your answer.
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False. Saved individuals ruled those who
were not.
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This historic event is responsible for the conviction and execution of over 150 women in a community of Massachusetts.
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The Salem Witch Trials
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Fill in the Blank.
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible draws parallels between the ________________________________________________ and the 1950’s hunt for Communists, named ________________________________________.
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The Salem Witch Trials/
McCarthyism
$500-Puritanism
Fill in the blank.
The age of Puritanism ended with many reasons. The most significant was the smallpox plague and Cotton Mather’s public campaign for _________________________________________.
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Inoculation
$100- Rationalism
People arrive truth through ____________________.
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Reason
$200-Rationalism
Rationalists like Benjamin
Franklin believe that humans
can be ___________.
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Perfected
$300-Rationalism
What is an aphorism?
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An aphorism is a brief, cleverly worded statement
about life.
$400- Rationalism
List three grievances the colonists had against the British government.
$400To Be Judged.
$500- Rationalism
In 1988, to mark the bicentennial of the US constitution, Congress passed a resolution stating the influence of the _______________ Constitution on the principles of the US.
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Iroquois
$100-Romanticism
The Romantics valued _____________
over reason.
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Feeling; Intuition
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The Romantics looked to nature as being a reflection of ___________________
_________________________________________.
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Spiritual and Moral Development
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Provide an example from the stories of Hawthorne or Poe to prove that the Romantics distrusted progress.
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To Be Judged.
$400-Romanticism
Provide an example from the stories of Hawthorne or Poe to prove that the Romantics believed in the freedom of the individual.
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To Be Judged.
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True or False.
Like the Puritans, the Romantics believed that nature could be a sign of the moral lessons and divinity of God. Explain.
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False. Moral Lessons revealed were not necessarily revealed or related to
God.
$100-Transcendentalism
Transcendental refers to the idea that in order to determine the true reality of God, self, and life, one must transcend beyond ____________.
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A human’s everyday experiences of the physical world.
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Everything in the world is a reflection of the ___________________________________.
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Divine Soul
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The following are views of the Transcendentalists. Name which literary period was its influence.
•Use intuition to behold God’s spirit
•God’s spirit is revealed in nature
•Self-reliance and individualism are more important than external authority
•Values feelings & intuition over rational thought
$300•Romanticism
•Puritanism
•Rationalism
•Romanticism
$400- Transcendentalism
Explain Emerson’s optimistic outlook.
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If we trust that we know God directly, than each of us is part of the Divine Soul, and therefore, each of us is a part of the source
of all good.
$500- Transcendentalism
Explain the difference in outlooks between transcendentalists like Emerson, and the “dark” Romantics like Poe and Hawthorne.
$500Romantics didn’t ignore the
dark side of the human identity.
Good vs. Evil
Original Sin
Guilt
$100- American Authors
This American Author is credited with writing one of the most powerful Puritan
sermons.
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Jonathan Edwards
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This line came from one of the works of this popular Rationalist.
“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.”
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Benjamin Franklin
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This American Author had a tragic death to match his tragic life. He is responsible for the name of Baltimore’s football team. Name the author and three disappointments/setbacks from his life.
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Edgar Allan Poe
To be Judged.
$400- American Authors
This American Author is criticized by her modern African American counterparts. Identify this author and explain the criticism which surrounds her.
$400Phillis Wheatley advocated for the
freedom of the colonists from England rather than freedom for the slaves within the colonies.
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This American poet had her house burnt down and yet remained faithful to God.
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Anne Bradstreet
$100- Literary Techniques
This literary technique is used in The Declaration of Independence.
“He has…”
“He has…”
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Parallelism
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Thomas Paine uses this literary technique in his speech, The Crisis. He incorporates a very brief story about a Tory inn keeper in order to
serve as an example of a Tory’s selfishness.
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Anecdote
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This technique of the Romantic writers is illustrated below:
A few miles from Boston, in Massachusetts, there is a deep inlet winding several miles into the interior of the country from Charles Bay, and terminating in a thickly wooded swamp, or morass.
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Numerous Prepositional
Phrases
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In “The DEVIL and TOM WALKER,” Irving uses a classical conflict of a character making a deal with the devil. What is a classical pattern that is repeated in literature?
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Archetype
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Name the literary technique being used and the author/work.
“…for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
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Metaphor-
Thomas Paine’s
“The Crisis”
Place Your Wager.
What literary period does this passage come from?
"Why do you tremble at me alone?" cried he, turning his veiled face round the circle of pale spectators. "Tremble also at each other! Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and children screamed and fled, only for my black veil? What, but the mystery which it obscurely typifies, has made this piece of crape so awful? When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!"