Terms and Authors Flashcards
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The story of a puritian woman who was captured and released eventually by the indians.
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Rowlandson by herself.
What is a jeremiad?
A puritian sermon in response to misbehaving
A puritian semon in verse form
The Day of Doom by Micheal Wigglesworth
A feminist poem.
The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet
A guidebook to her children
To My Dear Children by Anne Bradstreet
A poem describing her humanity as she misses the things in her life.
Here Follows Some Versus upon the Burning of Our House by Anne Bradstreet
A peom that is in a sensual tone towards the love of god
Meditation 42 by Edward Taylor
What is metaphysical conceit?
A metaphor that takes two unlike things that never compare but use them to make a comparison.
An autobiography of a man who sets out to make a fortune from poverty.
The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
What is Tabula Rasa?
A blank slate
Who is the 3rd Earl of Shaftsbury?
A diest who came up with the Docterine of Sentamentalism
What is the Docterine of Sentamentalism?
Human beings are born good and they are driven to do good
What is the watchmaker god?
He makes them but he lets them do as they want
The narrative of a slave who becomes a civilized european.
The Interseting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa, the African by himself
A poet who was born into slavery basically came from Africa very young, this poem is about how mercy brought her from Africa.
On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
A poet who was born into slavery basically came from Africa very young, this poem is about how America is free from the tyranny of Europe.
TO the Right Honorable WIlliam, Earl of Dartmouth, HIs MAjesty’s Principal Security of State for North America by Phillis Wheatley
A poet who was born into slavery basically came from Africa very young, this poem is about correcting students from wicked ways.
TO the UNiversity of Cambridge by Phillis Wheatley
A description of the glories of America and how Indians are being pushed into the woods.
The Emigration to America and the peopling the Western Country by Philip Freneau
A description of how nature is like a god.
On the Religion of Nature by Philip Freneau
Backing up the ideas of womans right to education.
On the Equality of the Sexes by Judith Murray
