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Early American Lit
Transcendentalism
Dark Romanticism
Key Works
Key Terms
100
These are some archetypes normally present in this genre of literature: life-giving tree, warring brothers, segments of creation

What is Creation myth?

100
This is the name of the "spirit" inherent both within the world and within ourselves

What is the "Over-Soul"?

100

This poet primarily focused on themes of madness and psychological distress

Who is "Edgar Allan Poe"?

100

Written by Edgar Allan Poe, focuses on a character named Lenore

What is "The Raven"?

100
A complex character described with great detail, usually the main character(s) of a story

What is a round character?

200

DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This author wrote in puritan plain style

Who is William Bradford?

200

This is arguably the main tenet of transcendentalism, where truth is believed to be found

What is nature?

200

The authors of dark romanticism are also called this

Who are the romantic pessimists?

200

Written by Washington Irving, commonly interpreted as a symbol of changing American life after the Revolutionary War

What is "Rip Van Winkle"?
200

A story that uses the supernatural to explain elements of life, specific to distinct cultures

What is myth?

300

This tenet of American romanticism is missing from this list: imagination, individualism, nature

What is the Distant?

300
This author's moniker is "The Father of Transcendentalism"

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

300

All three authors of dark romanticism we've studied

Who are Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne?

300

Written by Henry David Thoreau, titled after a place he spent two years, two months, and two days of his life in isolation

What is "Walden"?

300

Type of writing that uses clear, simple language

What is plain style?

400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This author wrote in the narrative genre, focusing on divine providence through suffering

Who is Mary Rowlandson?

400
The essay "Self-Reliance" and the poem "Song of Myself" both focus on this aspect of transcendentalism

What is "individualism"?

400

This tenet of dark romanticism focuses on the capacity humans have for evil (sin nature) and psychological distress

What is "intuition" (individualism)?

400

Written by Walt Whitman, one of the earliest and most distinct examples of American poetry

What is "Song of Myself"?
400

Recurring narrative elements that appear in stories across cultures

What is archetype?

500

These are the years of American romanticism

What is 1820-65?

500

According to transcendentalism, man is inherently (good/bad)

What is good?

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This author helped pave the way for a latter literary movement called Naturalism

Who is Herman Melville?

500

Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, primarily focuses on how we obtain truth of our world

What is "Nature"?

500

References to people, places, events, works of literature

What is allusion?