Puritans & literary devices

Deliberate exaggeration to emphasize a point

• Hyperbole
• Antithesis
• Rhetorical Question 
• Simile 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Repetition of an initial consonant sound

• Alliteration 
• Hyperbole
• Simile
• Analogy 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Simile 
• Metaphor
• Rhetorical Question 
• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor
• Analogy 
• Hyperbole 
• Alliteration 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Repeating words or similarly structuring phrases or clauses 

• Parallelism and Repetition 
• Antithesis
• Analogy 
• Hyperbole 

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A question that does not require an answer because the speaker sees the question as obvious.

• Rhetorical Question 
• Simile
• Antithesis
• Alliteration 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

A group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.

• Puritan 
• Conceit 
• Pilgrims 
• Similes

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The belief that everything that happens has already been determined by God and there is no way to change that. 

• Predestination 
• Puritan
• Conceit
• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Using uncomplicated sentences and ordinary words are used to make simple, direct statements.

• Puritan Plain Style 
• Conceit 
• Simile
• Antithesis

The first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. Author of "The Author to Her Book." 

• Anne Bradstreet
• Edward Taylor
• Jonathan Edwards
• Arthur Miller 

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6