Cultural/Historic Issues & Influences
Presentation of Work
Writing Style & Techniques
Critical Reception
Random Facts
100
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in this city.
What is Boston?
100
Emerson gave this many public lectures across the United States?
What is more than 1,500?
100
Nature is divided into
What is an introduction & eight chapters?
100
A(n) ____ edition of his first book Nature took six years to sell 500 copies
What is anonymous?
100
Emerson had ___ total children
What is 4?
200
This concept circled around the belief in the importance of a direct relationship with God and with nature
What is Transcendentalism?
200
Judging from his work, Emerson is typically known as (4 Things)
What is a Lecturer, Philosopher, Essayist and Poet?
200
The style Emerson uses in his work
What is rhetorical? (that builds up language and emotion)
200
Emerson's popularity increased due to meetings with young ministers to discuss these topics
What is theology & philosophy?
200
Major disease that was present during his lifetime?
What is Tuberculosis?
300
Transcendentalism comes from this belief
What is Unitarianism?
300
Emerson's work influenced these four writers (Only 1 needed)
What is Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William James?
300
Emerson uses ____ & ______ to ease the reader's understanding of difficult concepts.... (It doesn't work)
What are analogies & metaphors?
300
This Emerson speech was well-received at his Phi Beta Kappa oration at Harvard
What is "The American Scholar?"
300
All of his kids names started with this lettEr
What is "E"?
400
Romanticism from these two countries are where Transcendentalism received inspiration
What is England & Germany
400
Famous Emerson essay
What is "Self-Reliance?"
400
DAILY DOUBLE: It is speculated that Emerson used his strong detail & vocabulary for what purpose?
What is to get the reader deeply involved?
400
Emerson's writing was acknowledged as a complex mixture of __________
What is deeply resonant rhetoric?
400
Emerson entered college at this age
What is 14?
500
Coleridge, another influence of Emerson, came up with this notion
What is wonder and the importance of individual consciousness?
500
The year Nature was published
What is 1836?
500
Emerson style suggests he is speaking rather than ____
What is writing?
500
This speech of Emerson's was both acclaimed and denounced vigorously in a storm of controversy
What is "Divinity School Address?"
500
By the 1870s the aging Emerson was known as
What is "The Sage of Concord?"
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