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His name is best associated with Rhode Island:

Hypo- and sub- both mean ___.

Thomas Morton of Merrymount was called the Lord of Misrule by Bradford because he

Captain Miles Standish

Dys- and mal- both mean ___.

It was the esteemed Alfred E. Newman who established that a literary work should be included in the literary canon when its reception “booms like a canon.”

Authors associated with the literature of exploration were first and foremost writers.

The literature of exploration and Native American accounts have always been reconized, valued, and included in the American literary canon.

In his Report of the First Voyage, Columbus says the island natives he encountered thought he came from the sky. 

While the European concept of the Great Chain of Being established animals as inferior to humans and the Bible was understood to grant man dominion over the animals, the Native American stories suggest a sense of equality with the animals and the rest of nature.