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literary terms and people
literature textbook test 1
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English
11th Grade
09/16/2009

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allusion
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reference to another work or history( to God for PUritans)
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inversion
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change in word order(for rhyme usually)
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couplet
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two consecutive lines that rhyme
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Protestant
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seperatist religion from the Catholic Church
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Puritan
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Protestant group, to purify reading of Bible
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Anglican
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founded by Henry 8th to divorce his wife, Church of England
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Plain Style
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Puritans wrote in, straight forward
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metaphor
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comparison of 2 unlike things
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conceit
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metaphor extended throughout something to explain comparison.
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simile
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comparison uses "like" or "as"
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predestination
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God already determined if you go to hell/heaven at birth
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unregenerate
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people chosen to go to hell(damned)
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elect
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people chosen to go to heaven(saved)
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cavaliers
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member of upper class(English loyalists)
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sensationalism
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propaganda, more lively and exaggerated than really is.
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"Noble Savage"
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Indians ere moral and honorable people, but not "civilized"
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oral tradition
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Indian literature was passed down from generation to generation through storytellers. Nothing was written until well after the Europeans landed in America.
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John Edwards
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born to be minister
Yale at 13
fire and brimstone preacher
died of smallpox inoculation
leader of Great Wakening
Last Puritan
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Massasoit
Definition
signed with Bradford a peace treaty
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Chief Joseph
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defeated many larger army forces at encounters on way to Canada
surrendered less than 40 miles away from border
"I will fight no more forever"
respected for courage, humanity, military skill.
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Sitting Bull
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leader of Sioux.
annhilated expedition of Armstrong in Battle of Little Bighorn.
fled to Canada, returned and was shot and killed by captors.
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Wovoka
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American Indian prophet.
taught fellow indians the ghost dance.
regarded as indian messiah.
influence diminished after massacre at Wounded Knee and death of Sitting Bull.
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Metacomet
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AKA King Phillip.
led King Phillips war, raiding and capturing white people.
captured Mary Rowlandson.
head was left on a spike as a threat to indians.
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Samoset
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spoke limited english and returned with Squanto after walking into white town.
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Squanto
Definition
taken a slave, taught whites to grow corn and spoke english well
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