Question

30 POINTS

Choose the best answer(s).
Match the letter of the author with the genre.

A. Anne Bradstreet
B. William Bradford
C. Olaudah Equiano
D. Thomas Jefferson

1. colonial journals and documents

2. slave narratives

3. colonial poetry

4. revolutionary/protest writing

I know that Anne Bradstreet wrote poetry and William Bradford did as well. Equiano, I know, was a freed slave and wrote an autobiography about his life as a slave. Thomas Jefferson obviously wrote the Declaration of Independence. What I do not know is if I am missing anything.

Answer 1

I just took this quick check and got 100%.

The answers are:

1. Colonial Journals and Documents: B William Bradford

2. Slave Narratives: C Olaudah Equano

3. Colonial Poetry: A Anne Bradstreet

4. Revolutionary/Protest Writing: D Thomas Jefferson

5. Thomas Jefferson and thomas Paine shared a similar purpose for writing. What was their purpose? To persuade.

6. I want to explain to origins of the natural world and its processes. The oral tradition of Native Americans.

Answer 2

You are mostly right in your assumptions.

A. Anne Bradstreet wrote 3. colonial poetry.

B. William Bradford, as the first governor of Massachusetts, had to had to write 1. colonial journals and documents, although he might have written all kinds of other stuff.

C. Olaudah Equiano, as a former slave, wrote his autobiography, so 2. slave narratives.

D. Thomas Jefferson wrote 4. revolutionary/protest writing.