Historical Events Influencing the Romantic Period.
Characteristics of Romantic and Romantic Heros
Writers, Themes, and Plots of the Romantic Period
Key Literary and Rhetorical Devices
Poe
100
Why do we call this period in American literary history the Romantic Period?
What is self-realization?
100
What do Romantics value most? (answer 3)
What is Sensibility, imagination, spontaneity, individual feelings, and wild nature were greater value than reason, logic, planning, and civilization?
100
The theme of Thanatopis is...
What is when a man dies, he adjoins with nature?
100
"...the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half-drowned, half-rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire." What literary device is used?
What is metaphor/similie?
100
What day did Poe die?
What is Sunday, October 7th?
200
What story was written by Washignton Irving
A. The Devil and Tom Walker
B. Odyssey
C. Wizard of Oz
D. Self-Reliance
What is A. The Devil and Tom Walker?
200
Which of the following is a characteristic of a American Romantic?
A. Looks for the future
B. Prefers wise innocence to educated sophistication
C. Values feeling and intuition over reason
D. Accepts artificial civilization
What is C. Values feeling and intuition over reason?
200
Who wrote "Self Reliance"
What is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
200
"To him a palace, a statue, or a costly book..." What device is used in that part of the sentence?
What is Personification?
200
What was 3 cities he studied (answer 1)
What is New York, Richmond, and Philadelphia?
300
"...Moses, Plato and Milton..." this line in "Self-Reliance" had the literary device of...
What is a Allusion?
300
Which of the following is a characteristic of a Romantic Hero?
A. Wise and or possess wise qualtities
B. Loves Nature and avoids town life
C. Is rebellious and tainted of purpose
D. All of the above
What is B. Loves Nature and avoids town life?
300
How did Washington Irving make "Rip Van Winkle" a parody?
What is unreliable narrator and caricuture?
300
A humorous or satirical of a serious piece of literauture or writing.
What is a Parody?
300
The genre he invented.
What is Detective Fiction?
400
When did Franklin write about his Journey? or Charles Brockden?
What is 1771? or 1799?
400
True or false, America still creates Romantic heros
What is True?
400
What is the mood in Tom Walker.
What is creepy?
400
A portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence, animal or object to create a easily identifiable visual likeness.