The one word that could characterize the Age of Romanticism.
What is emotion?
100
This author spent a night in jail after refusing to pay taxes.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
100
"On awakening, he found himself on the green knoll from whence he had first seen the old man of the glen....He looked round for his gun, but in place of the clean, well-oiled fowling pice, he found an old firelock lying by him..."
What is Washington Irving ("Rip Van Winkle")?
100
"Oh Captain! my Captain!"
What is Walt Whitman ("Oh Captain! My Captain!")?
100
Define suspense.
What is anxiety or apprehension resulting from an uncertain, undecided, or mysterious situation?
200
List two Romantic authors.
Who are Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, or Walt Whitman?
200
This author was a known recluse; he/she preferred to stay within the bounds of his/her homestead.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
200
"When first I took up my abode in the woods, that is, began to spend my nights as well as days there...my house was not finished for winter..."
What is Henry David Thoreau ("Walden")?
200
"I looked upon the scene before me - upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain - upon the bleak walls - upon the vacant eye-like windows - upon a few rank sedges..."
What is Edgar Allan Poe ("The Fall of the House of Usher")?
200
This town in Massachusetts was the home of both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
What is Concord?
300
Name two traits that characterize Transcendentalism.
What are: the need to pursue a relationship with nature, a distrust in civilization, and/or a conviction to work towards social justice?
300
This writer married a cousin; his/her death remains a controversy.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
300
"I do not expect you to believe what I am about to write. Only a madman would expect it. Yet mad I am not, and very surely I do not dream."
What is Edgar Allan Poe ("The Black Cat")?
300
"How dreary - to be - Somebody!/How public - like a Frog/"
What is Emily Dickinson ("I'm Nobody! Who are you?")?
300
This was the first group to rival British poets in terms of fame.
Who/what were the Fireside Poets?
400
List the 5 "I"s of Romanticism.
What are Imagination, Intuition, Idealism, Imagination, and Individuality?
400
This writer was known as the most famous of the Fireside Poets.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
400
"And again to the child I whispered,/ 'The snow that husheth all,/Darling, the merciful father/Alone can make it fall!'"
What is James Russell Lowell ("The First Snowfall")?
400
"Lives of great men all remind us/We can make our lives sublime,/And, departing, leave behind us/Footprints on the sand of time..."
What is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("A Psalm of Life")?
400
This author is known as the inventor of the modern detective story.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
500
Describe how the Age of Romanticism stemmed from the Age of Reason.
What is a need (and an ability) to backlash against the rationalism characterized by the Age of Reason?
500
This author often wrote under the pen-name "Diedrich Knickerbocker."
Who is Washington Irving?
500
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by statesmen and philosophers and divines."
What is Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Self-Reliance")?
500
"The harpies of the shore shall pluck/The eagle of the sea!"
What is Oliver Wendell Holmes ("Old Ironsides")?
500
Name the five Fireside Poets.
Who were Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Greenleaf Whittier?