I wrote a series of 16 essays entitled The American Crisis
Thomas Paine
I believed that religion should be rooted in emotion as well as reason
Jonathan Edwards
Common Sense is probably my most beloved work
Thomas Paine
When I criticized organized religion, people began to dislike me
Thomas Paine
I was a printer, inventor, author, statesman, and diplomat-- but never president
Benjamin Franklin
My talent for preaching resorted in a mass of conversions
Jonathan Edwards
I was accused of hypocrisy because I wanted to free African Americans, but had more than 600, myself
Thomas Jefferson
I was known as "The Orator of Liberty
Patrick Henry
I financed and attended a trip to France in an effort to secure an alliance and loans
Benjamin Franklin
I left behind the ideals of self-government and liberty
Thomas Jefferson
I believed that there was no hope in compromising with Great Britain and war was necessary
Patrick Henry
I argued that citizens should be willing to suffer present conflict fro the sake of future peace
Thomas Paine
When Patrick Henry says "betrayed with a kiss," he is using what rhetorical device?
allusion
When Patrick Henry says, "Give me liberty, or give me death," what rhetorical device is he using?
antithesis
When Jonathan Edwards states, "nothing to lay hold of to save yourself, nothing to keep off the flames of wrath, nothing of your own, nothing that you have ever done, nothing that you can do, to induce God to spare you one moment..." Edwards is using what
anaphora
When Thomas Jefferson says, "He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people," what rhetorical device is Jefferson using?
parallelism
When Paine says, "I call not upon a few, but upon all," he is using.....
antithesis
When Paine deems the King's character as being "sottish, stupid, and stubborn," he is using......
alliteration
When Jonathan Edwards says, "How can you rest one moment in such condition?" Edwards is using.....
rhetorical question
When Edwards says, "you are ten thousand times more abominable in is his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours" he is using.....
...
The perception the people of Jonathan Edward's congregation have regarding God is that:
God is like the people
Sinners in the Hands of Angry God" would most appropriately be described as
a sermon
As Jonathan Edwards preaches to his congregation, how does he convey God's feelings toward the people?
God hates them
What is the "escape clause" that Edwards offers to sinners who hope to avoid hell?
faith in Christ's mercy
The purpose of Patrick Henry's "Speech to VA Convention" was to........
persuade America's decision makers to declare war on Britain
Patrick Henry says that _________ with Britain is essentially as bad as ___________
-compromise
-slavery
Patrick Henry's tone could best be described as....
urgent
Henry uses anaphora in the following quote: "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and we have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliamen
America has tried to solve their problems peacefully and now needs to be more proactive
America wanted to avoid war with GB for the following reasons except:
King George III was very kind and concerned with the colonies for a very long time
In "The Declaration of Independence," Thomas Jefferson declares the king's actions of going to war against the colonies is an act that is:
barbaric
When Jefferson refers to unalienable rights, what does this term mean?
rights that are natural and God given
The purpose of the "Declaration of Independence" was to....
tell other countries why America was disbanding from GB
All of the following people contributed to the composition of "The Declaration of Independence" except:
George Washington
When Jefferson says, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, t
deductive reasoning
When Jefferson is using the quote above, he is stating that...
men will suffer greatly in an effort to avoid changing the government structure
Jefferson notes in "The Declaration of Independence" that King George III has done all of the following except:
provided America with protection
The verbs used above are all examples of proper..
parallelism
Thomas Paine's audience differs from Patrick Henry's and Thomas Jefferson because Paine is speaking to...
common people
What did Thomas Paine equate tyranny to?
hell
What is Paine's purpose for writing The Crisis?
to persuade Americans to join the war effort against Britain
When Paine says, "if a thief were to break into my house, burn and destroy my property, and kill or threaten to kill me, or those that in it, and to 'bind me in all cases whatsoever,' to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? What signifies it to me, wheth
both of these scenarios are the same and require defense
Paine's tone differs from Henry and Jefferson's because Paine's tone is more....
aggressive and emotional
Why might Benjamin Franklin have mentioned his struggle to perfect the virtue or order?
he recommended accepting your limitations
What virtue did Franklin struggle with the most?
order
Franklin's aims to master how many virtues?
13
Franklin's intended audience for his autobiography was most likely included....
young men aiming to enter politics
What story/author: patriotism, freedom, sacrifice, altruism
The Crisis; Thomas Paine
What story/author: action, courage, confrontation, providence
Speech to VA Convention; Patrick Henry
What story/author: life, liberty, individualism, freedom
Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson
What story/author: mercy, destruction, punishment, salvation
Sinners at the Hands of an Angry Go; Jonathan Edwards
What story/author: individualism, balance, perfection, ambition
The Autobiography; Benjamin Franklin
SPEAKER: "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
SPEAKER: "A generous parent would have said, 'If there must be trouble let it be in my day....'
Thomas Paine
SPEAKER: "The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he is purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sigh
Jonathan Edwards
SPEAKER: "I determined to give a week's strict attention to the each of the virtues successively.
Ben Franklin
SPEAKER: "We hole there truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable righten that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson