1. Wanted to return to a simpler form of worship and church organization.

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Puritan1. Wanted to return to a simpler form of worship and church organization.

Puritan

2. Religion was a personal, inner experience.

Puritan

3. Did not believe the clergy or government should or could act as an intermediary between the individual and God.

Puritan Values

1. Self-Reliance

2. Industriousness

3. Temperance

4. Simplicity

Predestination

God alone chooses one’s salvation

Characteristics of Puritan Writing

1. The Bible provided a model for Puritan writing.

2. Diaries and histories were the most common forms of literary expression in Puritan society. They described the workings of God.

3. Puritans favored a plain style of writing with clarity of expression and uncomplicated figures of speech.

Plain Style

A way of writing that stresses simplicity. It emphasized the use of everyday words from common speech.

Inversion

The words of a sentence or phrase are taken out of normal order to accommodate rhyme and meter.

Example

Inversion-In silent night when rest I took.

Normal – In silent night when I took rest.

Arthur Miller

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