American Literature - Early

The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence for emphasis

• Restatement

• Anaphora

• Parallelism

• Aphorism

An extended metaphor is called a what?

• Conceit

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Litotes

šIronic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary

• Litotes

• Hyperbole

• Antithesis

• None of the above

Two successive rhyming lines

• Metaphor

• Couplet

• Stanza

• Litotes

Who wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?

• Edward Taylor

• William Bradford

• John Winthrop

• Jonathan Edwards

Who wrote the “Common Sense” and “The American Crisis”?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Paine

• Philip Freneau

Who wrote “A Model of Christian Charity”?

• John Smith

• John Winthrop

• William Bradford

• Thomas Paine

Who wrote “An Author to Her Book?”

• Phillis Wheatley

• Anne Bradstreet

• Judith Sargent Murray

• Mary Rowlandson

Who is the author of “Huswifery”?

• Anne Bradstreet

• Jonathan Edwards

• Edward Taylor

• Phillis Wheatley

Who wrote Letters from an American Farmer?

• Thomas Paine

• Thomas Jefferson

• J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

• Benjamin Franklin