ENG 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mary Rowlandson, Simile
Document Summary
A narrative of the captivity and restoration of mrs. mary rowlandson. Original title: the sovereignty and goodness of god. Use of parentheses is very odd: ex: (as i may) Calls native tribes a company of hell-hounds : metaphor. Sheep and wolves simile: very biblical. Their weapons so daunted my spirit : personifies how afraid she is. Literature language is important because the violence is introduced very harshly in the beginning: shift from literal to figurative is apparent. Allusion: reference to a text/story: biblical allusions, some with quotations, some in footnotes. Assumes her readers are knowledgeable when it comes to the bible. Almost suggests a divine punishment: job: afflicted individual; test from god to test his faith. This idea of why do bad things happen to good people? . Repetition of the word doleful, meaning dreadful/terrible: as the text goes on, she continues to say that this was the most.
