Early America and Puritans

What is a pair of rhymed lines which are written in iambic pentameter?

Heroic Couplet

What is a Puritan narrative that details events leading up to & including realization of Irresistible Grace

conversion narrative

A story written from a captive person’s perspective, which demonstrates their moral superiority over his/her captors is?

Captive narrative

In Puritan Theology, all people are born in a sinful state, tainted by original sin. This concept is called?

Total depravity of mankind

What/whose war was the backdrop for Mary Rowlandson’s 11-week captivity?

King Phillip’s War

A government that combines both civil and church law is known as?

Theocracy

Bartolome de las Casas’ catalouge of the depraved abuses of the Native Americans commited by “the Christians” is called?

Verbal Irony

Capt John Smith was leader of this colony

Jamestown Colony

Which Puritans formally renounced the Anglican Church

Separatists

What is the understanding of scripture as a series of agreements or promises between God and humanity?

Covenant Theology

What type of stanaza is written in iambic pentameter with an ABABCC rhyme scheme?

Shakespearean Verse

“True Saints” are Puritans who were regarded as unquestionably, God’s Elect, while other Elects who they doubted were?

Visible Saints

All of the following early colonists except __’othered’ the Native Americans in their writing.

Alvar Nunez de Vaca

In his “Preface,” Edward Taylor compares himself to a ___in order to show how small and unimportant he is

Crumb of Dust

Which Puritans felt that reform of the Church of England was possible?

Dissenters

The use of identical initial consonate sounds in a series of words is known as?

Alliteration

___is a method of alienating others through using things that are depicted as intrinsic differences

Othering

One of these is NOT a Part of a Puritan Sermon as exemplified by John Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity”

Preamble

Thomas Harriot was a part of which colony?

Roanoke

What concempt is the Old Testament agreements between God and Humanity based on obedience, reward, and punishment?

coventant of works