Romanticism
This is the approximate starting year of American Romanticism.
What is 1800?
He created many creepy gothic stories.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
He slept for 20 years.
Who is Rip Van Winkle?
This beating Poe object symbolizes the conscience.
What is the heart?
This famous story of Puritan adultery takes place in this eastern city.
What is Boston?
This characteristic of Romanticism states that this is a form of spirituality.
What is nature?
This writer, named after a President, is the Father of American literature.
Who is Washington Irving?
She is the wife of Goodman Brown.
Who is Faith?
This color usually symbolizes death.
What is black?
Goodman Brown left this location to go on his journey.
What is Salem?
Irving used this characteristic of Romanticism in his the story "The Devil and Tom Walker."
What is gaining "wisdom from the past"?
What Romantic writer was only a poet?
Who is William Cullen Bryant?
She was the mother of the illegitamite daughter Pearl.
Who is Hester Prynne?
This large building symbolized Puritan law.
What is the prison?
Both Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow occurred in this state.
What is New York?
Romanticism promoted leaving the city for the peace of nature. This characteristic of Romanticism is called ________________.
What is escapism?
This Romantic author worked the Puritan religion in many of his works.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
The wealthy Prince Prospero was the key figure in this story.
What is "The Masque of the Red Death"?
Goodman Brown's wife owned these symbolic items.
What are pink ribbons?
In the poem Thanatopsis, death should be approached like going to this comfortable furniture.
What is a couch?
This characteristic of American Romanticism stemmed from American wanting to break free from Britain.
What is individuality?
He used the pen name Diedrich Knickerbocker.
Who is Washington Irving?
This school teacher was tall and skinny and had a large appetite.
Who is Ichabod Crane?
In the allegory Rip Van Winkle, she symbolized Great Britain.
Who is Dame Van Winkle?
The Devil and Tom Walker were last seen at this location.
Where is in the forest?