True or False? Emily Dickinson published over 1700 poems in her lifetime.
False
100
Romantics trusted in this more than in logic and reason.
What is intuition?
100
For Transcendentalists, this is the source of truth and inspiration.
What is nature?
100
True or False? Walt Whitman came from a working class background.
True
100
True or False? Ralph Waldo Emerson was a minister.
True
200
In this type of rhyming, introduced by Emily Dickinson, the end words do not rhyme perfectly.
What is slant rhyme?
200
Romantic stories were often set in this type of location rather than in a familiar or ordinary setting.
What is an exotic locale?
200
The belief that people can experience a higher reality than found in sense experience and a higher kind of knowledge than achieved by human reason.
What is transcendentalism?
200
In this piece, the author attempts to help the audience empathize with a runaway slave.
What is "Song of Myself, No. 10"?
200
This is Emerson's definition of self-reliance.
What is trusting one's own intuition and ideas?
300
Dickinson uses this technique in "If You Were Coming in the Fall" to compare months to balls of yarn.
What is metaphor?
300
The Romantics believed that meditating on this would lead to spiritual and moral development.
What is nature and/or nature's beauty?
300
The Transcendentalists believed that every individual is capable of discovering higher truth on his/her own, through this.
What is intuition?
300
This poetic technique was introduced during the Romantic era and is the absence of rhyme and meter.
What is free verse?
300
This is something that could block a person from achieving his/her full potential, according to Emerson.
What is conformity, materialism, envy, imitation, or failure to work hard?
400
This term describes the author's attitude toward a subject. For example, in "Heart! We will forget him" Dickinson writes of the speaker's desire to forget someone, although the speaker knows it will be very difficult. Dickinson's attitude toward the subject could be described as determined.
What is tone?
400
The Romantics rejected the artificiality of this.
What is civilization?
400
The Transcendentalists rejected this aspect of society, which they saw as limiting human potential.
What is conformity and/or materialism?
400
The tone of "I Hear America Singing"
What is cheerful/optimistic?
400
This the meaning of the quote "no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
What is that each person must work to develop his/her inner self in whatever circumstances of life are given to him/her?
500
This poem portrayed the author's ideas about death and its inevitability.
What is "Because I could not stop for Deathâ?
500
The Romantics favored this over educated sophistication.
What is youthful innocence?
500
The Transcendental term for the convergence of the individual, God and Nature.
What is the Oversoul?
500
The theme of "I Hear America Singing"
What is the belief that each person in America has a valuable contribution to make to a great country?
500
This is a common reaction experienced by Jesus, Luther, Copernicus, Pythagoras, Newton, Galileo, and Socrates when they introduced new ideas into society.