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Literary Terms: Similes, Sermons, and Historical Journals

Test your knowledge of literary terms, famous authors, and historical texts with this Jeopardy-style quiz. Explore the meaning of similes and sermons, learn about important authors like Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards, and dive into historical journals like "Of Plymouth Plantation". Challenge yourself with this literary trivia game!

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Literary Terms: Similes, Sermons, and Historical Journals

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  1. Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

  2. Choose a point value. Choose a point value. Click here for Final Jeopardy

  3. Random More Literary Terms Authors Quotes Acts III and IV 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 10 Point 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. A comparison of two objects using “like” or “as”

  5. What is a simile?

  6. An essay, given in a house of worship, which conveys the speaker’s message or point of view

  7. What is a sermon?

  8. A factual account of events in the life or development of a people, nation, institution or culture

  9. What is a journal?

  10. A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent person

  11. What is apostrophe?

  12. A poetic device that changes the usual order of words

  13. What is inversion?

  14. Work published titled under The Tenth Muse

  15. Who is Anne Bradstreet?

  16. Preached fiery sermons during the Great Awakening; Known as the last Puritan

  17. Who is Jonathan Edwards?

  18. Puritan leader who was elected governor of Plymouth over 30 times

  19. Who is William Bradford?

  20. Wrote about a spinning wheel

  21. Who is Edward Taylor?

  22. Wrote because he/she wanted. Not for publication. Work later published by brother-in-law

  23. Who is Anne Bradstreet?

  24. Used FEAR to appeal to his audience

  25. Who is Jonathan Edwards?

  26. “But that which was most sad and lamentable was, that in two or three months’ time half of their company died…”

  27. What is Of Plymouth Plantation?

  28. “But indeed these things are nothing; if God should withdraw his hand, they would avail no more to keep you from falling than the thin air to hold up a person that is suspended in it.”

  29. What is Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?

  30. “Then dye the same in heavenly colors choice./ All pinked with varnished flowers of paradise.”

  31. What is “Huswifery”

  32. “Then straight I ‘gin my heart to chide./ And did thy wealth on earth abide?”

  33. What is “Upon the Burning of Our House”

  34. “So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed.”

  35. What is Of Plymouth Plantation?

  36. These two people in Of Plymouth Plantation were praised by Bradford for caring for the sick

  37. Who are Myles Standish and William Brewster?

  38. Indian literature is based on _____ tradition

  39. What is oral tradition?

  40. True or false: Bradstreet is irritated about the burning of her belongings at the end of “Upon the Burning of Our House”

  41. What is false?

  42. This is the major conceit in “Huswifery”

  43. What is cloth making and God’s grace

  44. Who does the speaker in “Huswifery” address?

  45. Who is God?

  46. True or False:Of Plymouth Plantation is a piece of fiction that Bradford wrote after he found a diary that detailed the Puritan’s journey to Plymouth

  47. What is FALSE? Bradford was on the journey. It’s a history of the Plymouth colony

  48. In Of Plymouth Plantation this person was saved from drowning by GOD

  49. Who is John Howland?

  50. This literary term is extremely evident in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and gives it the power to affect the audience

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