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Self- Reliance
Civil Disobedience
The Devil and Tom Walker
The Pit and the Pendulum
American Romanticism
100
The author of Self- Reliance
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
100
The author of "Civil- Disobedience"
Who is Henry David Thoreau
100
The author of "The Devil and Tom Walker"
Who is Washington Irving
100
The author of The Pit and the Pendulum
Who is Edgar Allen Poe
100
American Romanticism values what over reason?
What is feelings and intuition
200
According to the author, self- reliance is.....
What is nonconformity or individualism
200
The author says that government is best when it does not govern at all. how can the government "govern not at all"?
What is it can respect the rights of the individual and trust individuals to do what is right
200
How are Tom and his wife described in the story?
What is miserly and greedy
200
What fate has the narrator been sentenced to?
What is death
200
What do the Romantics see as the highest expression of the imagination?
What is poetry
300
According to the author, what is genius?
What is believing your own thoughts
300
Why does the author not feel confined in prison?
What is he feels that his mind is still free and less confined than the free people
300
What remains did Tom find of his wife?
What is her heart and her liver
300
What kind of death does the narrator associate with the pit?
What is he fears that the pit offers a death of "hideous moral fates" like hell.
300
The American Romantic Hero possesses what kind of qualities?
What is the hero is young or youthful
400
According to the author, how does society affect what people value?
What is society requires conformity and penalizes those who diverge from it
400
How/why is the author released from prison after just one night?
What is someone paid his taxes for him
400
What job does the devil ask Tom to take?
What is a usurer or money-lender
400
What are the three horrors that the narrator faces after being sentenced to death?
What is the pit, the pendulum, the hot walls closing in
400
The American Romantic Hero has a sense of honor based on higher principles, not on what?
What is society's rules
500
What kinds of figurative language does the author use to describe both society and the individual?
What is metaphor and hyperbole
500
How does the author's perspective change when he is released from prison?
What is he is still idealistic, but is more cynical about the government becoming truly just
500
What happens to Tom and his treasure at the end of the story?
What is Tom is whisked away by the devil and his treasure is burned to ash.
500
In what order do the three crisis situations occur for the narrator before he is saved?
What is he almost falls into the pit, he almost gets killed by the pendulum, and the walls close in on the narrator
500
American Romantic Poetry teaches what?
What is moral lessons