Puritans & Part 2 Pre-European AmLit & Part 1 African American Literature Am Lit... Broadly Authors
100
What is the Bible?
The most important book for the Puritans.
100
What is oral literature
The literature of a culture before they begin to write myths and histories.
100
Who is Phillis Wheatley
The first published African American poet.
100
What is the American Myth or the American Dream
The idea that anyone from any level of poverty or disadvantage can make it if they work hard enough.
100
Who is Equiano
The author of the slave autobiography which we read.
200
What is "City on a Hill"
The phrase made famous by John Winthrop, taken from the Bible.
200
What is the trickster
The primary example of an archetype that we discussed in relation to Native American mythology
200
What are the spirituals.
The earliest body of music from which most of the African American music tradition springs. Like Go Down Moses
200
What is American excceptionalism
The idea that America is like a shining "City on a Hill" whose light cannot be hidden. Lighting up the rest of the whole world.
200
Who is Anne Bradstreet
The author of "Upon the Burning of Our House."
300
What is syntax
The way the words go.
300
What is land could be owned privately
The difference in ideas between the Native Americans and Europeans regarding their relationship to the land. The Europeans' view.
300
What is the Bible
The origin of spirituals' titles like Go Down Moses and Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho. A book.
300
What is essentializing
The language that uses one quality of a person and makes it their essence by avoiding "person first" language.
300
Who is Abigail Adams
The author of "A Letter to Her Daughter."
400
What is she blest the LORD.
The strange reaction that Anne Bradstreet had to her house burning down.
400
What is Huron
The tribe from which "The Sky Tree" comes.
400
What is "published under her name"
The phrase the Thomas Jefferson used to cast doubt on the authorship of Phillis Wheatley's poetry.
400
What is the frontier
The space that exists between the city/civilization and the wild.
400
Who is Toni Morrison
The author of "Thoughs on the African American Novel."
500
What is 1630
The year Anne Bradstreet came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony
500
What is the mother.
The kind of human through whom the lineage was traced according to the Iroquois Constitution.
500
What is black preaching or African American musical traditions.
The cadence, the life, and the urgency of African American novels should derive be like according to Toni Morrison
500
Who is Thomas Jefferson
The author of Notes on Virginia.
500
Who is Phillis Wheatley
The author of "To His Excellency, General George Washington."






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