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The following is not a genre of American literature of the colonial period: exploration literature
False
John Winthrop established the Indian Captivity Narrative
False, John Smith established the Indian Captivity Narrative
Literature of the Colonial Period may be defined as a literary record of the period called the Age of
Reason or Revolution.
False
The following are genres of American literature of the colonial period: travel and exploration records
True
In his writings, Captain John Smith portrayed English North America as a desert.
False
Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: Anne Bradstreet
True
Michael Wigglesworth's "The Day of Doom" expresses the theme of poetic inadequacy
False
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Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: William Bradford,
Anne Bradstreet, and Herman Melville.
False
"The Day of Doom" was authored by Michael Wigglesworth.
True
Captain John Smith is one of the writers whose report of exploration is described as one of the first
distinctly American writing in English.
True
Michael Wigglesworth established the Indian Captivity Narrative
False
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" uses the Ministerial Three Method.
True
The words plain and clear adequately describe literature of the Colonial Period.
True
Thus stands the cause betweene God and us. We are entered into Covenant with Him for this worke.
Wee have taken out a Commission. The Lord hath given us leave to drawe our own articles. Wee have
professed to enterprise these Actions, upon these and those accounts, upon these and those ends, wee
have hereupon besought Him of favour and blessing. Now if the Lord shall please to heare us, and bring
us in peace to the place wee desire, then hath hee ratified this Covenant and sealed our Commission,
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[and] will expect a strict performance of the Articles contained in it; but if wee shall neglect the
observation of these Articles which are the ends wee have propounded, and, dissembling with our God,
shall fall to embrace this present world and prosecute our carnall intentions, seekeing greate things for
ourselves and our posterity, the Lord will surely breake out in wrathe against us; be revenged of such a
perjured people and make us knowe the price of the breache of such a covenant. This excerpt is an
example of what genre?
Sermon
In his "Journal," John Winthrop refers to Anne Hutchinson as
"American Jesabel"
Edward Taylor authored "The Day of Doom"
False, Michael Wigglesworth authored "The Day of Doom"
John Smith aimed to use the obscure and complex style "with singular regard unto the simple truth."
False
Authored "The Flesh and the Spirit"
Anna Bradstreet
Another name for the Pilgrims is Separatists.
True
Cotton Mather called this author the "American Nehemiah."
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John Winthrop
For wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a hill. The eies of all people are uppon Us, soe
that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken, and soe cause Him to
withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.
According to the excerpt, what will the consequences be for dealing falsely with God?
God will abandon and Punish them
Is a pastoralist, or his writing may be described as idyllic or bucolic.
John Smith
Jonathan Edwards' "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" showcases the origins, wanderings, and
struggles of the Puritans
False
Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: Michael
Wigglesworth and Phillis Wheatley
False, Wigglesworth (colonial) and Phillis Wheatley (Revolutionary)
English colonization did not really take hold until early 1850
False
Genre of American Literature of the colonial period
Sermons, Travel and Personal Records, Diaries, Historical and Descriptive Accounts, Poetry
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Captain John Smith is one of the writers whose report of exploration is described as one of the first
distinctly American writing in English.
True
For wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a hill. The eies of all people are uppon Us, soe
that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken, and soe cause Him to
withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. "Citty
upon a hill" is an example of
Biblical Allusion
Authored a narrative documenting the Pilgrims' pilgrimage to the New World
William Bradford
Another name for the Pilgrims is Separatists.
True
The New Englanders was the name of the group that established the first permanent settlement in New
England
False
Anne Bradstreet wrote during the period of the American Renaissance.
False
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This author alludes to "many hundreds" of variable travel "relations."
John Smith
Perceives the American wilderness as "hideous and desolate," full of "wild beasts and wild men."
William Bradford
Alliterations such as "Root and rise"; "Bloody and barbarous"; "Fain and flee" appear in this author's
work.
William Bradford
Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: Anne Bradstreet
True
Literature of the Colonial Period basically is a record of the literature of what is called the American
Renaissance
False
John Winthrop authored Meditation 38
False, Edward Taylor was the author
Anne Bradstreet's poetry was considered as "grateful entertainments unto the ingenious" by
Cotton Mather
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Chesapeake Bay was the first permanent settlement in colonial New England.
False
Christopher Columbus was the leader of the first English settlers called the Pilgrims.
False
Calvinistic aesthetics suggest that in life as in art, obscurity and complexity should be preferred.
False
1775 was the year the permanent settlement in New England was established
False
1850 was the year the first English settlement was established
False
Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: Michael
Wigglesworth and Edward Taylor
True
Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: John Winthrop
and William Cullen Bryant
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False
Deism is the belief that God is ever present and continuously directs His people's affairs.
True
Collection of poetry published in 1650, and then revised and republished in 1678.
Anne Bradstreet
Author of meditative poem titled "Contemplations."
Anne Bradstreet
Most of Edward Taylor's series of "Meditation" poems use the Ministerial Three Method.
True
