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
Fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks
Frederick Douglass
"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
She published the work Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl under the name: ___________________
“Linda Brent”
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
How did Jacobs' narrative re-work the previously male-centered slave narrative genre?
Her narrative confronted the cruel realities of life as a black woman living in America during the 19th century
Which author was an American poet who lived in seclusion and is widely considered to be one of the leading 19th-century American poets?
Emily Dickinson
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
Jacobs’ use of dialects in her dialogue reflects which realism concept?
Regionalism
What defined the "Cross-Over Poets" ?
They were caught in the middle of the transition between the Romanticism/Transcendentalism Movements and the Realism Movement - due to the interruption of the Civil War
What is Naturalism?
Naturalism suggested that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character