Dark Romanticism
Dark Romanticism presents the natural world as...
Dark, decaying, mysterious
Realists wanted to ________________________ when depicting people, places, and things
Be as accurate as possible
The purpose of the slave narrative genre was to . . .
Illustrate the dark realities of slavery to inspire the abolitionist movement
Who wrote "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" ?
Walt Whitman
Why did the narrator kill the old man in Tell-Tale Heart?
He was creeped out by his "vulture-like eye"
Dark Romantics believed that humans gravitate towards....
Evil and self-destruction
Realists rejected. . .
The heroic, adventures, or unfamiliar subjects
Did Douglass ever escape slavery?
Yes, in 1838 - he went to New York City
Emily Dickinson was known for
"Some keep the Sabbath going to Church" is about . . . ?
How spirituality/faith can be found and practiced in nature / various locations
Like the _____________________, the Dark Romantics believed that true reality is spiritual.
Transcendentalists
Plots and characters are depicted as....
Ordinary
Critics of Douglass' autobiography frequently attacked the book as _______________________
Inauthentic, not believing that a black man could possibly have produced so eloquent a piece of literature
___________________ is known for his simplistic, rhyme-free poetic form
Walt Whitman
What is Roderick Usher's sister's name?
Madeline
In the Tell-Tale Heart, what is the old man's name?
He is never named
What is a major theme of "When I Hear America Singing" ?
The poem emphasizes the dignity of work and the value of each individual's contribution to the nation
When Harriet Jacobs escaped slavery, she hid in an attic for _______ year
7
Was abandoned by his father and his mother died a year later from tuberculosis
Edgar Allan Poe
What is Regionalism?
Literature that focuses on a small geographical area and attempts to accurately reproduce speech/manners of that region
In Fall of the House of Usher, what is ONE sound that did NOT bother Roderick Usher due to his "morbid acuteness of the senses"?
Stringed instruments
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" uses what literary device to portray death as __________________?
Personification - as - courteous and inevitable
She published the work Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl under the pseudonym ___________________
“Linda Brent”
Fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks
Frederick Douglass
What is Naturalism?
Naturalism suggested that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character