Question

1. Which of the following is a counterclaim the separatists anticipate from Great Britain in regards to leaving and starting a new colony?

"From hence they departed, & co[a]sted all along, but discerned no place likely for harbor; & therfore hasted to a place that their pillote..."


" All great & honourable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courages."


" But hear I cannot but stay and make a pause, and stand half amased at this poore peoples presente condition..."


" True it was, that such atempts were not to be made and undertaken without good ground & reason; not rashly or lightly as many have done for curiositie or hope of gaine"


2.Review: an allusion is an indirect reference an author makes to something else in history or literature. Which of the following sentences has an allusion?

" Let it also be considred what weake hopes of supply & succoure they left behinde them, yt might bear up their minds in this sade condition and trialls they were under; and they could not but be very smale."


" May not & ought not the children of these fathers rightly say : Our faithers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this willdernes; but they cried unto ye Lord, and he heard their voyce, and looked on their adversitie…"


" Being thus passed ye vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembred by yt which wente before), they had now no friends to wellcome them, nor inns to entertaine or refresh their weatherbeaten bodys, no houses or much less townes to repaire too, to seeke for succoure."


" And no marvell if they were thus joyefull, seeing wise Seneca was so affected with sailing a few miles on ye coast of his owne Italy; as he affirmed, that he had rather remaine twentie years on his way by land, then pass by sea to any place in a short time; so tedious & dreadfull was ye same unto him."

Answer 1

1.-A counterclaim must be "True it was, that such atempts were not to be made and undertaken without good ground & reason; not rashly or lightly as many have done for curiositie or hope of gaine" British could counterclaim the attempts to start a new colony in this way.

2.- The last one is an allusion since the passage alludes to Seneca and that he was affected with sailing.

Answer 2

1. One counterclaim the separatist anticipate is D. " True it was, that such attempts were not to be made and undertaken without good ground & reason; not rashly or lightly as many have done for curiositie or hope of gaine" And son on Bradford explains the reasons of the separatist to emigrate.

2. The excerpt containing an allusion is D. "And no marvell if they were thus joyefull, seeing wise Seneca was so affected with sailing a few miles on ye coast of his owne Italy; as he affirmed, that he had rather remaine twentie years on his way by land, then pass by sea to any place in a short time; so tedious & dreadfull was ye same unto him." He is referring to Seneca.