Prep for AmLit Test 1

What is the belief that the culture of a time influences a work?

• sensationalism

• ethnocentrism

• historicism

• imagery

What is the use of vivid language that appeals to the senses?

• metaphor

• imagery

• essay

• tone

What is the comparison of unlike things, either stated or implied?

• metaphor

• tone

• inference

• allusion

What is an indirect reference to an outside work, such as the Bible?

• metaphor

• sensationalism

• schema

• allusion

Who said, "Speak for me! Thou knowest my heart..."?

Who said, "And when I could no longer look/ I blessed the One Who gave and took"?

Why did Capt. Smith have to rescue Jamestown? (Choose 3)

• sickness and bad harvest

• the townspeople's laziness

• bad leadership

• attacks by the natives

What was the 1st book printed in the New World?

• The New England Primer

• The Great Horn Book

• The Bay Psalm Book

• The Scarlet Letter

What was the 1st schoolbook used in the New World?

• The Bay Psalm Book

• The Bible

• Of Plymouth Plantation

• The New England Primer

In your opinion, which consequence of the Salem Witch Trials had the greatest long-term effects on the United States?

• The move away from religious-based government

• The requirement for hard evidence in a trial

• The idea of "innocent until proven guilty"

• The removal of confession as the only necessary evidence for guilt