| A | B |
|---|
| grace | The Puritans belive that this is the only form of salvation that will allow them to escape Hell and enter Heaven |
| self-examination | The Puritans pracitice this process to find evidence of their election |
| Predestination | The Puritan belief that states only people who are elected by God are saved and go to heaven |
| God-centered | The type of society the Puritans wanted to build in the New World |
| original sin | The belief that man is evil from birth |
| Bible | The supreme authority on earth according to the Puritans |
| Puritan Ethic | A strong work eithic in which material and social successes were favored by God, not in granting salvation, but in receiving blessings |
| Plain Style | Puritan form of writing using strong, simple, logical words |
| Persecution | Puritans traveled to America to escape from religious persecution in England |
| Relgious | The type of improvement Colonial Period literature focuses on |
| Puritans | Devout Christians who want to purify their lives and the church |
| Pilgrims | Devout Christians who want to separate from the Church of England |
| Commonwealth | A society where the good of the group outweighs the good of the individual |
| Aim | writer's purpose or goal |
| Couplet | pairs of rhyming lines |
| Inversions | popular 17th century poetic device used to accommodate for rhyme |
| extended metaphor | extending the comparison between two unlike things for effect in writing |
