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Bradstreet and Edwards: Private Doubt, Public Terror — Homework
Reread this week's Bradstreet and Edwards passages side by side before answering.
- 1.Name the intended audience for Bradstreet's poetry and for Edwards's sermon.
- 2.Identify the vehicle and the tenor in Edwards's spider-over-the-fire metaphor.
- 3.Why does allowing visible grief into "Upon the Burning of Our House" before resolving toward faith make the poem more effective?
- 4.Explain the difference between "register" and "tone" using this week's two texts as your example.
- 5.In six or more sentences, explain which of the two texts you find more persuasive on its own terms, defending your answer with the writer's specific choices.
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