Romanticism
Transcendentalism
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Language Devices
Miscellaneous
100
Romanticism is a name given to a school of thought that values intuition over this Classical characteristic.
What is reason?
100
Transcendentalism centers on a belief that the ___ world provides a doorway to God.
What is the natural world?
100
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide..."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
100
This sound device repeats internal vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
100
According to Emerson in "Self-Reliance," the "hobgoblin little minds" is this.
What is consistency?
200
In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, Romanticism came about as a reaction to this other -ism.
What is rationalism?
200
Transcendentalists believed that this quality outweighed external authority and blind conformity.
What is individualism? OR What is self-reliance?
200
"This American government — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity?"
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
200
This type of rhyme is also called "approximate rhyme."
What is slant rhyme?
200
This famous civil rights leader used Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" as a model for his/her own work.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
300
For their stories and poems, Romantics over choose exotic ___, far removed from the grime and noise of cities.
What are settings?
300
Emerson believed that this quality was the key to connecting with the mystical world.
What is intuition?
300
"Every change in season, every change in weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all good wives far and near as perfect barometers.
Who is Washington Irving?
300
This type of rhythm contains five or more beats per line and mimics human speech.
What is cadence?
300
Complete the sentence: "Once upon a midnight dreary..."
What is "while I pondered, weak and weary"?
400
Romantic writers like James Fenimore Cooper believed that virtue was in this quality, as opposed to European sophistication.
What is innocence?
400
This German philosopher raised questions about reason and religion that influenced Transcendentalist thought.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
400
To him who in the love of Nature holds/ Communion with her visible forms, she speaks/ A various language..."
Who is William Cullen Bryant?
400
A speaker uses this literary device when he or she directly, and emotionally, addresses an inanimate object.
What is apostrophe?
400
According to the speaker in Poe's "The Raven," the bird perches itself upon the bust of this Greek Goddess?
Who is Pallas Athena? OR Who is Athena? "Pallas" doesn't count.
500
Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe are often referred to by this term.
Who are the Dark Romantics?
500
Henry David Thoreau wrote this book about the two years he spent living in a cabin by a pond with the same name.
What is Walden?
500
"To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
500
This type of language device reverses parallel structures in adjoining clauses.
What is chiasmus?
500
In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," this was considered "the greatest curiosity" in his study.
What is a book of magic?
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