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

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2. Religion was a personal, inner experience.

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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.

Characteristics of Puritan Writing

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

Characteristics of Puritan Writing

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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