Literature of Religious Experience Review

Summarize the historical development of the Puritans and Separatists. What primarily distinguished the Puritan worldview from the Anglican?

• Puritans focused on ritual and hierarchy, unlike the Anglican emphasis on simplicity

• Puritans emphasized personal faith, scripture, and moral rigor, unlike the Anglican focus on tradition and ceremony

• Separatists supported the monarchy, Puritans rejected all government

• Both groups were identical in beliefs

How did Jonathan Edwards’ Puritan background influence “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?

• He emphasized human reason over divine judgment

• He stressed predestination, sin, and the need for immediate repentance

• He rejected Puritan theology entirely

• He wrote only about historical events

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How did Anne Bradstreet’s life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony shape the themes of her poetry?

• She ignored Puritan beliefs entirely

• Her poetry reflects domestic life, personal struggles, and Puritan religious values

• She wrote mainly about European politics

• Her poems focus exclusively on nature without spiritual meaning

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Describe the imagery used by Edwards in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. Provide examples.

• Images of gardens and flowers

• Images of wrath, fire, and falling sinners

• Images of playful animals

• Literal descriptions of colonial life

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What type of figurative language begins Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book”?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Apostrophe

• Personification

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Identify one metaphor from Bradstreet’s poetry and explain its theme.

• The burning of her house as a metaphor for spiritual testing, representing the theme of faith and loss.

• A river as a metaphor for time, representing the theme of eternity.

• A tree as a metaphor for family, representing the theme of growth.

• A ship as a metaphor for adventure, representing the theme of exploration.

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Identify one simile from Bradstreet’s poetry.

• My book is my child

• My book, like an orphan, trembles in the world

• O Book, forgive my flaws

• The book weeps silently

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How does Bradstreet use personification?

• Giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• Writing historical facts only

• Comparing two unlike things

• Addressing an absent person

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What is an example of apostrophe in Bradstreet’s poetry?

• “My child, my book, fly carefully into the world”

• “The book is like a fragile child”

• “All books must follow grammar rules”

• “Nature shows God’s glory”

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What is the primary purpose of Edwards’ imagery?

• To entertain

• To evoke fear and demonstrate the danger of sin

• To confuse the congregation

• To explain Anglican rituals

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