Puritans
What was Nathaniel Hawthorne's original name?
Name a topic that the Romantics were interested in
Name a topic that the Dark Romantics were interested in
Evil, death, the supernatural, the past, settings/atmospheres, guilt, insanity, etc.
Human nature is...
Fundamentally good
The subgenre of comedy that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn uses
Satire
The puritans depicted the forest as...
Terrifying, unfamiliar, dark, wild
The two subgenres of Romanticism we studied were...
Dark Romanticism and Transcendentalism
This author wrote Bartleby the Scrivener
Herman Melville
The Father of Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This author was born in Missouri and wrote under a pen name
Samuel Langhorne Clemens or Mark Twain
This Crucible character died from being pressed by stones and refused to save himself
Giles Corey
This reclusive poet had 1800 poems published posthumously
Emily Dickinson
This is the name of the real life New York settlement that inspired Sleepy Hollow
Tarrytown
The Transcendentalists most often wrote in this format (novels? poems? comic books? screenplays? etc)
The essay
The name for the technique of including regional accents and cultural quirks that make a community unique
Local Color
This author compared the Salem Witch Trials to the Communist Red Scare
Arthur Miller
The character in Huck Finn who embodies the Romantic mindset
Tom Sawyer
A usurer is...
Someone who lends money (often unfairly) for a living
This author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax
Henry David Thoreau
The authors of To Build a Fire and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Jack London and Ambrose Bierce
Roger Chillingworth is nicknamed after this type of animal
The Leech
The Romantic emphasis on emotion was a reaction to this historical period that emphasized reason and science
The Enlightenment
This man disgraced Edgar Allan Poe's legacy
Rufus Wilmot Griswold
The Transcendentalists published many of their works in this magazine
The Dial
The name of the island that Huck escapes to
Jackson's Island