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Romanticism
"Self-Reliance"
"Nature"
Ralph
Vocabulary
100
Romantic period/era
What is the period of artistic, literary, and intellectual movement?
100
What is the main theme?
What is trust your inner voice.
100
What is the main theme?
What is spirituality.
100
What is Emerson's middle name?
What is Waldo
100
occult
What is secret or hidden from view?
200
imagination, creativity, nature, individuality
What are some factors that Romantic writers relied on?
200
What is a theme that "Self-Reliance" stresses throughout?
What is having control of your own life
200
What can be rewarding?
What is experience.
200
What type of romantic writer is he?
What is transcendentalist
200
suffrage
What is approval and support
300
Enlightenment
What is the period that Romanticism followed?
300
Why does Emerson believe conforming is bad?
Emerson believes if you don't conform, you will find inner peace.
300
What is the idea that one becomes one with their surroundings?
What is transcendentalism
300
Who was Emerson's most powerful influence?
What is his aunt, Mary Moody Emerson.
300
nonconformist
What is one who does not follow generally accepted beliefs, customs, or practices?
400
Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne
What is a name of an author from the Romantic era?
400
What analogy does Emerson refer to?
What is an outspoken child that freely speaks his or her mind.
400
What is something larger Emerson believed existed over God?
What is nature
400
What was Emerson before he became a writer?
What is a minister
400
importune
What is to ask urgently or repeatedly?
500
Nature
What is the main concept in which Romanticism is based?
500
What does Emerson warn the reader of if he or she does not conform to society?
What is disapproval from those who conform, as well as criticism.
500
Does Emerson believe in materialistic objects? Explain
No.
500
At what age did Emerson enroll at Harvard?
What is 14
500
decorum
What is good taste in conduct or appearance?