Key Literary Devices
Transcendentalists
Anti- Transcendentalists
The Romantics
Characteristics of the Romantics
100
Once upon a midnight dreary, as i ponder weak and weary.
What's an example of an internal ryhme?
100
Edgar Allen Poe wrote "______" and "_______"
He wrote "The Black Cat" and " The Raven"
100
Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
Name the 2 Anti-transcedentalist writers of the American Renaissance?
100
Romanticism was about passion, imagination, nature, and the people.
What are a few interests and subjects that were used by the Romantics?
100
In Europe, In the 1800-1860's
When and where was the Romantice period formed?
200
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; This is it and nothing more.
What is an example of end rhyme?
200
Henry David Thoreau, William Cullen Bryant
Name the 2 transcendentalists writers of the American Renaissance?
200
He had four friends, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, Mr Gasconigne, and Widow Wycherly who he had tested to determine that if he took them back in time, would they change the way they acted in prior to become a better person?
What is “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment"?
200
Romantics emphasized on intuition, instincts, and feelings as a suppelment to logic or reason.
How did this have an impact on the creation of poetry?
200
Values feeling and intuition over reason.
What do Romantics value over reason. (Name 2)
300
"While I nodded, nearly napping suddenly there came a tapping, As of somone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door- "Tis some visitor" I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more"
What is an example of onomatopoeia?
300
Means in determining the ultimate reality of God. Believes that everything in the world is a reflection of the divine soul.
What is a Trancendentalist?
300
The resistance to civil government was written by______?
Henry David Thoreau
300
This group of people view poetry as the highest expression of the imagination.
Who are the Romantics?
400
"Deep into that darkness, long I stood there wondering fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before"
What is an example of alliteration?
400
People use there own intuition to behold Gods spirit shown in nature themselves. Everything in the world is a reflection of the divine soul.
What is Trancendentalists view of the world?
400
" That government is best which governs not at all."
What is Thoreau perspective on how the government should be dealt with?
400
-Is young and has youthful qualities -Loves nature and avoids town life -Has a sense of honor based not on society rules but higher principles.
Name a few characteristics of a Romantic Hero?
500
"Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken"
What is an example of consonance?
500
They believed that people use their own intuition to behold gods spirit shown in nature or themsleves.
Explain why the Romantics valued nature over society
500
Death is not a punishment, go to bed like a person going to bed with pleasant dreams.
What does William Cullen Bryants say death is?
500
Finds inspiration in myth, legend, and folk culture.
Name 3 things that Romantics encourage?
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