Romanticism
What is not a characteristic of Romanticism
Gothic
Government
Imagination
Individualism
What is government?
Look good on the outside but are rotting on the inside, symbolizing the sin and hypocrisy of the colony's leaders
In Bryant's poem, the speaker is addressing
Himself
God
a bird
a Stranger
What is a bird?
In "The Raven," the speaker is experiencing grief over
Elenore
Nora
Lenore
Edgar Allan Poe
Who is Lenore?
Whitman's primary style of writing
What is free verse?
What was not considered a factor that led to American Romantic Movement?
British rebellion against the Age of Reason
U.S. expansion into a vast frontier
Increase of industrialization
Pride of Revolution
None of the above
What is none of the above?
The theme of "The Devil and Tom Walker"
What is the idea that ill-begotten wealth has no value?
The literary technique of addressing an entity that is unable or unexpected to respond
One question the speaker asks the raven
answers will vary
Define free verse
What is poetry without rhyme or meter (rhythm)?
The Age of Reason rejected these concepts.
What are emotion/imagination?
Dressed in a rude, half indian garb, and had a red belt or sash swathed around his body, but his face was neither black nor copper colour, but swarthy and dingy and begrimed with soot, as if he had been accustomed to toil among fires and forges."
Who is the devil?
Metaphorically, the fowler represents
What are obstacles in our lives? (answers may vary slightly)
Poe's references to Pallas and Pluto (name the literary device)
What is allusion?
Whitman's purpose as a poet
What is to represent America and its democratic ideals? (answers may vary slightly)
Who was not considered a romantic author?
William Cullen Bryant
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Washington Irving
All of the above
Who is Walt Whitman?
a high figure of the church who was damned because he looked at other people’s sin instead of his own.
The pathless coast represents
What is our uncertain journey of life? (answers may vary slightly)
Describe the setting in the Raven and how it created an eerie mood.
answers will vary
The people in Whitman's poem are all what kind of people.
The first African American to publish a book
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
One example that shows Washington Irving advocated human rights.
Answer may vary.
the theme of Bryant's poem
Recite the first line of the poem
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
The poem ends with what image
What are men relaxing after a day of work? (answers may vary)