American Literature Chapter 2 and 3 Test Review

Metaphor

An imaginative comparison of two dissimilar things, which can be implied or stated, brief or extended.

Simile

A comparison using "like" or "as"

Personification

Gives human characteristics to nonhuman objects or entities.

Apostrophe

It is an address to an absent person, an abstraction, or an object.

Meter

The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line

Iamb

The most common foot in English. Contains one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

Common meter

An Iambic line (unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable)

Stanza

Divisions of a poem based on the thought, meter, or rhyme.

Couplet

A stanza containing two lines

Quatrain

A stanza containing four lines

Seset

A quatrian containing six lines

Heroic Couplet

Rhymed in pairs (aa bb cc) in iambic pentameter (five iambic feet)

Deism

The belief that God created the world but does not act to influence events.

Characterization

The art of portraying a character in a narrative directly (through telling) or indirectly (through showing)

Propaganda

Political persuasive writing, or emotional apeal to bypass reason

Name calling

Propaganda technique:

"Bad names" given to people, groups, and beliefs to make people condemn them without examining the evidence.

Glittering Generalities

Propaganda technique:

Generalities that contain virtue words to make people accept or approve without examining the evidence.

Testimonial

Propaganda technique:

Personal testimony in support of what the propagandist wants his audience to accept unquestioningly

Transfer

Propaganda technique:

Carryover of the authority, sanction, and prestige of something respected to something the propagandists want accepted

Bandwagon

Propaganda technique:

Appeal to the herd instinct or the desire to follow the crowd; the "everybody's doing it" argument.

Plain folk

Propaganda technique:

Appearance of being "plain folk among the neighbors"; politicains, labor leaders, businessmen, and others to appeal to the confidence of their audience.

Card stacking

Propaganda technique:

A collective term for all sorts of deception (lies, half lies, underemphasis, overemphasis)

In the "Author to her Book," Bradstreet refers to her book of poetry as her...

Child

In "Meditation 6," what does Taylor compare himself to?

Gold -- a minted coin bearing the image of God

True or False:

A collection of Anne Bradstreet's poems was published without her knowledge.

True

True or false:

Bradstreet uses many of her poems to express rebellion against the unfair treatment of women in her day.

false

True or false:

William called for the total separation of church and state and believed that all religions should be permitted to practice in the colonies if their practices were not physically harmful.

True

Syllogism

Begins with a major premise (general claim), moves to a minor premise (specific claim), and then ends in a conclusion

Deduction

Reasoning from a general truth to a specific conclusion

The following is an example of what?

All men are mortal.

Socrates is a man.

Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

Deduction

Didacticism

Instruction in literature

Neoclassical

Writers who emulate Greek and Roman writers

Who famously said "Give me Liberty, or Give Me Death"

Patrick Henry

According to The Age of Reason, what does Paine believe about national institutions of churches?

They make slaves of men and women and focus on power and profit.

Thomas Jefferson did all of the following except:

Serve as governor of Virginia

Serve as vice president unde John Adams

Serve as an American diplomat to England

Serve as president of the U.S. for two terms

Serve as an American diplomat to England

Phillis Wheatley was...

The first African American to publish a book

Know the 13 virtues mentioned in Franklin's Autobiography

Refer back to his autobiography in Google Classroom

Where was Wheatley's first volume of poetry published and why?

England -- due to push back from publishers in Boston

Blank verse

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Who is known as the Father of the American Dream

Benjamin Franklin

Who was the first African American to publish a book

Phillis Wheatley

Conceit

a striking, yet often elaborate, comparison being carried out in considerable detail

According to The Age of Reason, what does Paine believe about the national institutions of churches

they make slaves of men and women and focus on power and profit.

In The Autobiography, Franklin emphasizes each of the following virtues in his plan for moral perfection except

Silence

Obedience

Cleanliness

Moderation

Obedience

"On being Brought from Africa to America" charges Christians to

Remeber that God invites all people to come to Him for salvation

Who wrote pamphlets uniting the colonists in the fight for indipendence?

Thomas Paine

Anaphora

Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of grammatical units.