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Revolutionary Literature: Influential Works and Authors

Explore the impact of Benjamin Franklin's didactic writings, Thomas Paine's political influence, and Phillis Wheatley's poetic talent on the American Revolution. Discover the themes of freedom, religion, and satire in these insightful works.

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Revolutionary Literature: Influential Works and Authors

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  1. Literature of Revolution Unit 3

  2. About Benjamin Franklin • Dream • Writer • Didacticism • Today, popular • Happiness, God, mainstream • entire

  3. About The Autobiography • Unfinished • Record • Values • Religion • - existed • - Deistic • - benefited

  4. About The Autobiography • Sinful, Deistic, good • List • Help • Holy • not

  5. About Exporting of Felons to the Colonies • Convicts, satire • Satire • Ironic, Mother, evil, change

  6. About Thomas Paine • Political • Uniting • Common Sense • Deistic

  7. About Paine’s Writing • Common • Style • Stir • Freedoms, legitimate • Audience • spokesman

  8. About The American Crisis, No. 1 • Defeat • No • Picturing, army, leader • Tories, middle, selfish • together, real, together • Bad, hope, inspire • God • George

  9. About The American Crisis, No. 1 • Famous • Not • Guilty • George III

  10. About William Bartram • God, not • Naturalist, writer, words • four-, other • painter

  11. About Travels • Genre • Travel • Scientific, accurate, romantic • First • Dangers • Alligator • both

  12. About Philip Freneau • American, American • Captured • Politics • Revolution, (romantic) • alcohol

  13. About Freneau’s Writing • British, Deism • Two • Man-

  14. About “To the Memory of the Brave American. . .” • Elegy, 700 • Artificial • ? • abab

  15. About “On the Universality. . .” • Deists’ • Salvation, weakness • reason

  16. About “On a Honey Bee” • Humor • Bee • Mock- • allusions

  17. About “The Wild Honey Suckle” • Theme, universal • Grieves, Eden’s • No • Didactic • Nature • apostrophe

  18. About Phillis Wheatley • Slave, tailor, education, Latin, Scripture • Teenager, England • Free, poverty • black

  19. About Wheatley’s Writing • Gifted • Romantic, stronger

  20. About “To the University of Cambridge” • Students • - blank • - logic • Didactic • Allusion, spiritually • God, redemption • Students, redemption • Heavens • Allusions • Sin • Theme, sin, wisdom

  21. About “On Being Brought from Africa to America” • Mercy, rejoices • Freedom, Christ • All • Biblical, simile, spiritual

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