Slide 1:Early American Literature

Review for test on Friday!

Slide 2:Literary terms

1. a comparison made between two things to show how alike they are 2. a brief story told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something  3. a startling extended metaphor or other figure of speech that makes a surprising, even shocking, connection between two different things. The connection can be witty, strange, exaggerated, or cleverly elaborate.  

Slide 3:4. a comparison between two very different things   5. words or phrases that compare one thing to another, unlike thing.   6. a clue that suggests what might happen further into the story   7. the use of language to evoke a picture of concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience  

Slide 4:8. an educated guess based on clues in the text and your own prior knowledge and experience   9. the words of a sentence or phrase are wrenched out of our normal English syntax, or word order   10. the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures.

Slide 5:11. uses uncomplicated sentences and everyday words 12. a special type of inference, an educated guess about what will happen later 13. the distinctive way in which a writer uses language

Slide 6:Authors!

wrote A Summary View of the Rights of British America a call for the rejection of parliamentary authority; chosen to him draft the declaration of independence Helped America develop its own literary voice; genius for inventing comic fictional narrators Inspired by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge; interest in the philosophy of deism

Slide 7:4. Most popular American poet; second wife died after her dress caught fire, after her death he devoted himself to writing 5. When he moved to America his wife either fell or jumped off the boat; great leader of the colony; tried to hold the religious community together 6. Wrote “Coyote Finishes His Work”

Slide 8:7. First African writer to reach a sizable audience of American readers; born in West Africa (now Nigeria) 8. Found inspiration in Shakespeare and other great poets; Her faith is often the subject of her poems 9. Imaginative writing; Puritan; only one book of poetry found in his library when he died—Anne Bradstreet’s

Slide 9:10. Fire and brimstone preaching; helped to bring about the Great Awakening; known for his extremism in his sermons, did not hesitate to call out the people he thought were relapsing into sin. 11. Devoted to improvement; diplomat and negotiator; witty and charming 12. The most persuasive writer of the American Revolution; Was tried for treason in England even though he didn’t live there