PURITAN ABC'S

A

• Anne Bradstreet's house burns down and she is filled with the feelings of
• sadness and loneliness.

B

• Bradstreet says not to take material possesions over God.

C

• A couplet is a pair of rhymed lines.

D

• The dreadful voices of the flames remind Anne of the burned memories.

E

• Eternal pain awaits the Puritans if they don't change their ways.

F

• Foot is the basic unit of the rythm of a line of poetry.

G

• God's providence restores the Puritans in their times of sorrow.

H

• Heaven awaits the people if they turn away from sin and ask for forgiveness.

I

• Inversion is the practice of changing the conventional, or normal,
• arrangement of words in a sentence structure.

J

• Joyful memories of Anne's house lay in ashes.

K

• A Kind and loving God saved the Puritans.

L

• Longing for her treasures Anne looks above to God.

M

• Money and material possessions cause people to stray away from God.

N

• Naive Puritans didn't think their sin could send them to hell.

O

• The omnipotent God has mercy toward the Puritans.

P

• The pilgrims endured a tough journey to America, but they believed and trusted in God and made it safetly
• here.

R

• Rhyme scheme is the practice of rhyming words at the end of lines in a poem.

S

• Sinners will go straight to hell if they don't turn to God.

T

• Thanksgiving was a celebration, celebrated by the pilgrims, for there safe coming to America.

U

• Under the hands of God he will save you.

V

• The voyage to Cape Cod was a very tough journey taken by the pilgrims.

W

• William Bradford wants everyone to see how the Puritan values of faith, hardwork, and
• community brought them through their hardships.

Y

• You look at the good things in your life and you think you are saved, but that's not what the Puritans believe.

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