Literary Focus: Early America

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Across
  1. 2. A type of writing used to convince an audience (12)
  2. 4. Writing style characterized as plain, simple, and truthful (11)
  3. 8. Structure used by Native Americans that influenced U.S. democracy (2)
  4. 14. Cooking style with roots in Caribbean, European, and African traditions (1)
  5. 16. Term coined by Amerigo Vespucci meaning "New World" (4)
  6. 18. War between the British Colonies and England (7)
  7. 20. Settlements established to gain economic and territorial power in a region (3)
Down
  1. 1. The revivalist religious movement of the 1730s–1740s (8)
  2. 3. Island-hopping explorer whose 1492 voyage sparked colonization (3)
  3. 5. Author of "Common Sense", who used persuasive rhetoric (12)
  4. 6. A poetic form with rhymed lines in iambic pentameter (13)
  5. 7. Rhetorical appeal based on the author's ethics or credibility (12)
  6. 9. Appeal to the audience's logic
  7. 10. Poet known for biblical symbolism and neoclassical influence (13)
  8. 11. Puritan writer and governor of Plymouth Colony (11)
  9. 12. A rhythmic meter with five stressed syllables per line (13)
  10. 13. Religious reformers who sought religious freedom (6)
  11. 15. Philosophical movement emphasizing reason and logic (7)
  12. 17. Native American method of passing down stories and history(2)
  13. 19. Appeal to the audience’s emotions in rhetoric (12)