ROMANTICISM
What is Walden Pond.
Heracles, Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, Superman are all examples of this character archetype.
What is the hero?
Name the work. "To be great is to be misunderstood."
What is Romanticism?
She is the antagonist of the play.
Who is Abigail?
According to Emerson this is suicide.
What is imitation?
George and Harold, Bugs Bunny, Loke are examples of this character archetype.
What is the trickster?
Name the work.
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
What is "Thanatopsis"?
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
What is Realism or (Local Color / Regionalism)
This children's toy played an important part in the play.
What is a poppet?
Name the two of our writers who were Transcendentalists.
Who are Emerson and Thoreau?
What is the Trickster?
"More weight"
The Crucible
"Young Goodman Brown"
Who is Thomas Putnam?
Hawthorne and Poe where part of this group of Romantic writers.
What is Dark Romantics, Gothic, or Anti-Transcendentalists?
"Young Goodman Brown"
"Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning. "
"The Hollow Men"
"The Red Wheel Barrow"
The Crucibe is an allegory of this historical event / time period.
What is McCarthyism?
Name five parts of Niiii
Harold Krebs falls short of the hero archetype. Name what he is.
What is an anti-hero?
Name the poem:
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth--
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
What is "Design"
"To Build a Fire"
What is Naturalism (will accept Realism)?
Crucible can have several meanings. Identify one of them.
A container used to melt metals.
A trial by "fire"