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Dendrite Builders
Modern Examples of Amer. Lit.
Romaniticism
Call me "Professsor"
The Perfect Transcendentalist
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These two types of nouns are opposites of each other; one names a person, place, or thing that can be perceived by one or more of the senses; the other names an idea, a feeling, a quality,or a characteristic.
What are concrete and abstract nouns?
100
These ideas emanate from this group of people.
Who are the Transcendentalists?
100
The characteristic Romantic journey is to here, which Romantics associated with independence, moral clarity, and healthful living.
What is the countryside?
100
This author served with a British naval officer during the Seven Years' War.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
100
The Transcendentalists believed that to determine the ultimate reality of God, one must do this or go beyond everyday human experiences in the physical world.
What is transcend?
200
This is a part of speech that takes the place of nouns.
What is a pronoun?
200
This man would represent the teachings of this group of early Americans.
What are the Puritans?
200
Romanticism values these two things over reason.
What are feeling and intuition?
200
This author believed in reason and learning, the value of independent intellect, and the power of the human will. Likewise, he also believed in the lowliness of human beings and the ultimate futility of merely human efforts to achieve salvation.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
200
The Transcendentalists were idealists; they believed that humans could achieve this and they worked to achieve this goal.
What is perfection?
300
This is a part of speech that modifies or describes nouns.
What is an adjective?
300
This group produced heroes that resembled the heroes that this young man is singing about.
Who are the Romantics?
300
To the Romantic mind, this was the highest embodiment of the imagination.
What is poetry?
300
This Rationalist described a plan for achieving a perfectly virtuous life - that is, to "live without committing any fault at any time." To do this, he devised a list of 13 virtures and an ambitious plan for mastering each one, in order, one at a time.
Who is Ben Franklin?
300
This man was the leader of the Transcendentalists.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
400
"a", "an", and "the" are called this.
What are articles?
400
This man is speaking almost exactly the way this group of people would speak if they were to live in modern day.
Who are the Rationalists?
400
Heroic, virtuous, skillful frontiersman whose simple morality, love of nature, distrust of town life, and almost superhuman resourcefulness represent this person.
Who is the true Romantic hero?
400
This author wrote his own epitaph and it went like this: "The body of _________ , Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn our and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here food for worms; but the work shall not be wholly lost, for it will...appear once more in a new and more elegant edition..."
Who is the fantastic, the eloquent, the witty Ben Franklin?
400
Emerson's mystical view of the world did not spring from logic, but from this.
What is intuition?
500
This part of speech expresses action or a state of being.
What is a verb?
500
This video is reflective of this particular group of stories found in early American Literature.
What are the slave narratives?
500
This particular group were the most popular poets American had ever produced; they were also sometimes called Schoolroom Poets.
Who were the Fireside Poets?
500
This is a literary term for a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
What is an aphorism?
500
The Transcendentalists believed that God could be found here.
What is Nature?