EH 231 American Literature Final Exam with correct answers 2024
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Great Awakening correct answers was an enthusiastic religious movement of the 1730s and 1740s that swept through the Atlantic seaboard colonies and featured famous evangelists from England as well as the colonies
Ur-text correct answers One of the difficulties of studying American literature f...
Great Awakening correct answers was an enthusiastic religious movement of the
1730s and 1740s that swept through the Atlantic seaboard colonies and featured
famous evangelists from England as well as the colonies
Ur-text correct answers One of the difficulties of studying American literature from a
chronological/ historical perspective lies in the absence of a definitive _______; in
British literature, Beowulf serves as this kind of "text of orgin"
William Bradford correct answers In his 27 year chronicle of the settlement of
Plymouth, ________ describes not only his group's struggle and tragedies but also their
unswerving faith and commitment to their mission, which they saw divinely inspired and
mandated.
John Locke correct answers Much of enlightenment thought originated with the ideas of
________ a 17th century english philosopher who asserted that human sympathy rather
than supernatural grace was the basis for moral life; his conception of the human mind
as a tabula rasa challenged traditional notions of religious beliefs.
Separtists correct answers Also known as pilgrams
A Mother and Her Child correct answers In the poem "The Author of Her Book" Anne
Bradstreet compares her newly published book of to _______
Captivity Narrative correct answers Although Mary Rowlandson was not the first white
settler to be captured by Native Americans, her account originated what scholars
usually consider the first Euro-American literary genre, _______________, which
persisted well into the nineteenth century and influenced the form of the novel in
America
City Upon a Hill correct answers In "A Model of Christian Charity" John Winthrop
encouraged his fellow travelers to think of their future settlement as a ____________
Remove correct answers By using the term "_________" to not only separate her
narrative into chapter like divisions but also to indicate the increasing spatial distance
from the town of Lancaster, Mary Rowlandson reveals her sense of physical and
spiritual isolation.
Genre correct answers is a french word that describes a category of artistic
composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, and
subject matter
, Jesus correct answers In his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin outlines his list of
attempted virtues; under humility he aspires to imitate _______ and socrates.
the 10th muse correct answers Appropriately enough (although unknown to the author
until after publication), Anne Bradstreet's poems were published in London in 1650
under the title ________, an allusion to her place as the first resident of the New World
to publish a book of poetry.
Johnathan Edwards correct answers The orderly patterns of nature so evident through
the recent discoveries of science led ______ to praise the God of Nature in ways that
some earlier Puritans had been unable to do.
Deism correct answers A form of quasi- theology popular during the 18th century,
________ posited that a supreme being constructed the universe but did not interfere or
interact with human affairs
Right of Kings correct answers is the doctrine that kings derive their authority from God,
not from their subjects
Canon correct answers Is a term used widely to refer to a group of literary works that
are considered the most important of a particular time period or place.
Typology correct answers is a puritan method of both reading scripture and using it to
understand the significance of historical and current events.
King Phillip correct answers Also known by English Settlers as ___________, the
Wampanoag chief Metacomet led a series of attacks on colonial settlements that last for
more than a year
Weaned Affections correct answers In "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666"
colonial poet Anne Bradstreet laments the loss of her home and all of her belongings in
a fire; however, by rationalizing that the possessions were not hers to begin with and
that her hope and treasure lie above, Bradstreet exhibits the puritan doctrine of
__________
Wilderness correct answers The puritan imagination, shaped largely by biblical
accounts of the Israelites' captivity and exodus, transformed the American _________
into not only a literal space where no one was in great physical danger but also a
spiritual state where one's soul was in imminent peril.
Great Chain of Being correct answers is a strict, religious hierarchical structure of all
matter and life, believed to have been decreed by God.
Farmer James correct answers using the fictional name _____________, Hector St
John de Crevecoeur created a series of "letters" that describe the emergence of a
singular national identity leading up to and during the American Revolution.
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