Authors
The Father of Detective Fiction
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is Alliteration?
The man that wrote “The Raven”
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
the movement in art and literature distinguished by a new interest in human psychology, expression of personal feeling and interest in the natural world
Romantic
A group that taught that God was within every human soul and man had to follow “inner light”..
What are the Quakers?
America’s First influential Professor Poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
when a speaker's meaning is different than what is expressed in words.
What is irony?
The man that wrote The Scarlet Letter
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
“An Era of Optimism”
American romanticism
A group of writers centered in New England, specifically Boston.
First group of writers to rival their English counterparts on the Atlantic.
What is the New England School?
Best Known for Folk Tales
Who is Washington Irving?
An imaginative comparison of two dissimilar things.
What is a metaphor?
The man that wrote Self Reliance
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Men who saw people as fallen and flawed and portrayed them as such in their dark, melancholy writings.
What are romantic pessimists?
the belief that any citizen has a duty to disobey laws he feels are unsafe.
Civil disobedience
Philosophical leader of Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
a “mask” used to write from a different point of view
What is a persona?
The man that wrote “Ichabod”
Who is John Greenleaf Whittier?
The publishing date of Irving's Sketchbook and the end of the civil war provides the dates for this Literary Time period.
What is American Romanticism?
A group of writers centered in New York City.
Led by Washington Irving
Named after the storyteller of Rip Van Winkle
What are the Knickerbockers?
Use ambiguity, ambivalence, and symbols
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter
What is a Sonnet?
The man that wrote “Civil Disobedience”
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Individualism, Imagination, Nature, and the Distant.
What are the four romantic emphases?
This was missing from Poe and Hawthorne's view of the world
Redemption