History
Poetry
Novels
Writing Style
100
What is romanticism?
Artistic, literary, and intellectual movement
100
Name 1 thing that poets wrote about.
Emotion Exoticism Religion Nature Self Imagination
100
American novel focused on ___ expansion.
westward
100
True or False Writing during this period had subjective forms.
True
200
Where did romanticism start?
Jena, Germany
200
Name 1 aspect of romanticism style.
Organic Asymmetrical Appeals to the senses Reflects aliveness of nature Plays to imagination
200
What was considered the lowest form of writing?
Novels
200
True or False? Romantic style disregardedtraditional writing techniques
True
300
Name 1 event of the time period.
1830 - first railroad 1831 - Copyright Act of 1831 (first to include music) 1848 - Gold Rush American Civil War (1861-1865) 1863 - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 1865 - Lincoln assassinated 1865 - Slavery abolished in America 1867 - Alaska purchased Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) 1877 - Thomas Edison invents sound recording (phonograph) 1886 - Statue of Liberty unveiled in New York
300
Name the opposite of the romanticism period.
Enlightenment Rationalism
300
Romantics wanted to reflect on the ___ world.
natural
300
Romantic characters tended to be modeled very closely to the “______.”
"Common man"
400
What time period was romanticism present?
1770-1860
400
What was more important than reason to romanticism poets?
Imagination and emotion
400
To find what they were seeking they explored ____ settings.
exotic
400
Unlike in the enlightenment, _______ was more important than _______ in the romantic era.
Imagination and Reason
500
What seemed limitless to romanticism writers?
America
500
Name 1 fireside poet.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell John Whittier
500
The romantics wanted to find a realm of ___.
higher truth
500
Poets in the romantic period tended to use _____ _____ over traditional rhyming couplets
Blank Verse
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