LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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complex sentences
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embellished and ornate words.
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ordinary words are used to make simple, direct statements
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Puritan Plain Style is a writing style that was used by American Puritans, especially during the 1600s. Puritan Plain Style contains three elements: short words, references to everyday objects, and direct/straightforward statements.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the first places Anne Bradstreet experiences this Puritan hierarchy is within her own family. According to the Puritan doctrine, wives obeyed their husbands, children obeyed their parents, and servants obeyed their masters.
Detailed explanation-3: -Anne Bradstreet was in most ways quite typically Puritan. Many poems reflect her struggle to accept the adversity of the Puritan colony, contrasting earthly losses with the eternal rewards of the good. In one poem, for instance, she writes of an actual event: when the family’s house burned down.