Rationalism
This is the “P” in SOAPSTone.
What is Purpose?
These are the two literary periods under the umbrella of Romanticism.
What are Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism?
This person was the Transcendentalist teacher, and this person was the student.
Who is
Emerson: teacher
Thoreau: student?
In "Story of an Hour", the author gives these details near the beginning of the story, hinting that Mrs. Mallard might not be as sad as we expect.
What are...
-Birds twittering
-Beautiful clouds and sky
-Warm breeze
-Living people down on the street?
“The bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells…”
Who is Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bells”?
This is the “O” in SOAPSTone.
What is Occasion?
How does American Romanticism typically portray the relationship between humans and the natural world?
Humans are shown as interconnected with nature, finding spiritual renewal in natural settings.
Transcendentalist believed that everything was connected to this.
What is the OverSoul?
This is the reason that our writers left behind Romanticism and became Realists.
What is the Civil War was bloody and gritty and undeniable?
“…to be great is to be misunderstood…”
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”?
This is the appeal when a speaker or writer tries to tug at your heart strings.
What is Pathos?
This is the literal definition of the word “Thanatopsis”.
What is
Thanatos: Death
Ops: View/Sight
A view of death?
This is how an author creates tone/mood/emotion.
What is diction or word choice?
This is evidence that Mr. Covey knew, deep down, that what he was doing was wrong.
What is that he doesn’t harm Douglass on Sunday to keep a clear conscience?
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to …see if I could not learn what [life] had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Who is Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”
This is an example of which rhetorical appeal:
“Give me liberty, or give me death.”
What is Logos?
Which historical event does "O Captain! My Captain!" metaphorically reference?
What is the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln?
This is how Edgar Allan Poe perfectly illustrates the difference between Dark Romantics and Pure Romantics in the poem "Alone".
What is he reveals beauty in nature and values the individual, but offers a demonic twist?
Explain as much as you can this quotation: “…however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.”
What is…
Form: He may look like, act like, and obey like an enslaved person
Fact: the truth was that he was no longer bound by chains and whippings.
“…The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
Efface the footprints in the sands…”
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”?
Explain why it was so important for the people in the colonies to change from Puritanism to Rationalism.
What is...
-Leave behind theocracy
-Put the power in the hands of the people
-Argument and logic were extremely important to go to war?
Name the 4 big traits of Romanticism.
What are…
-Valued feeling and intuition
-Individual Expression
-Nature = beautiful, spiritual
-Youth Imagination (poetry)
Explore the Dark Romantic infatuation with humanity's internal conflict with sin and guilt, offering two examples from Poe's short stories.
What is...
The mind is a mysterious and intriguing thing. The effects of sin and guilt can overwhelm the mind and break it...
Two examples?
This is the explanation for the irony at the end of “Story of an Hour”.
What is that the doctors only got it half-right: she did die of heart disease, but it wasn’t joy- it was sorrow?
“…shalt thou go to mix forever with the elements; to be brother to the insensible rock…”
Who is William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”?