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Romantics
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100
Name the title of his most famous work.
What is Leaves of Grass?
100
They experienced conflict between good and evil, psychological effects of sin and guilt, and madness
What are the Dark (Gothic) Romantics?
100
"Civil Disobedience" is an essay about this author's experience being jailed for refusing to pay a poll tax in 1846.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
100
"Song of Myself" exemplifies this Romantic idea, which celebrates the power of one person.
What is individualism?
100
The leader of the Transcendentalists
What is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
200
"I Hear American Singing," a poem by Whitman, celebrates a particular kind of American, the common ________________.
What is worker or laborer?
200
Both Transcendentalists and Dark Romantics valued this over logic and reason
What is intuition?
200
This Gothic poem became popular because of its instances of alliteration, assonance, and rhyme, which creates a song-like sound to it.
What is "The Raven"?
200
The name of the first American Romantic Hero, from James Fenimore Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans."
What is Natty Bumppo?
200
Transcendentalists believed we could find God directly here
What is Nature?
300
The style of poetry that both Whitman and Dickinson pioneered, which involves no set rhythm, rhyme scheme, or format.
What is free verse?
300
This is what it means to be Romantic in the literary sense.
Idealistic, valuing emotion over reason
300
This short story parallels the destruction of a family with the destruction of something else
What is "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
300
Name one character in modern pop culture that could be called an American Romantic Hero--and tell WHY.
What is (answers will vary)?
300
According to Transcendentalists, everything and everyone in the world is a reflection of this
What is the Divine Soul or Oversoul?
400
Why does the narrator get up and leave in the poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"?
He doesn't believe in learning about nature through charts and diagrams.
400
Name 3 qualities of Gothic Romanticism
Entrapment, the supernatural, death, ancestral curse, body-snatching, dreaming/nightmares, gothic gadgets, the grotesque, mystery, necromancy, revenge, somnambulism, superstition, transformation/metamorphosis,
400
Name the poem that is a tribute to an American president and explain one way we can tell it's about him.
1. What is "O Captain, My Captain!" 2. Answers will vary
400
The movement that swept Europe BEFORE Romanticism is called ________________.
What is "Rationalism"?
400
this is the capacity to know things spontaneously and immediately through emotions
What is Intuition?
500
How does Whitman's message in "I Sit and Look Out" match Transcendental beliefs?
-The city is full of corruption -Sympathy for the poor and underserved
500
Name 2 ways that "The Raven" is Romantic.
Answers will vary
500
How "The Fall of House of Usher" is symbolic of the literary movements of the time
Symbolizes the destruction of rationalism and the birth of romanticism
500
Romantics believed in emotion and creativity over __________ and _____________.
What is logic and reason?
500
How Thoreau influenced other future leaders with his ideas?
Answers will vary (MLK, Jr. and Gandhi)