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Colonial Lit. (Puritan and Enlightenment)
Romanticism (Positive and Negative)
Transcendentalism
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The Puritan belief that all humans are evil.
What is natural depravity of humans?
100
The Negative Romantics thought nature would do this to the individual.
What is destroy?
100
The literary movement most closely related to Transcendentalism.
What is Romanticism?
100
This story best exemplifies the American Romantic Hero.
What is "Rip Van Winkle"?
100
The motto that influenced the boys in Dead Poets Society.
What is "seize the day" or "carpe diem"?
200
The Enlightenment influenced this important American document.
What is "The Declaration of Independence"?
200
The Romantics believed that this "I" was necessary for creating all art.
What is imagination?
200
The only author we studied during our Transcendentalism unit.
Who is Emerson?
200
This story may also be read as a deathbed confession.
What is "The Cask of Amontillado"?
200
Embodied by the phrase "damned if you do, damned if you don't."
What is Predestination?
300
The belief that there is a "clockmaker" that started the world and then stepped back.
What is deism?
300
This type of hero is commonly found within Negative Romantic works.
What is the Byronic hero?
300
The goal of Transcendentalism was to create this type of writing.
What is American?
300
This poem provided another means of "seeing death"
What is "Thanatopsis"?
300
Another name for the conscious and sub-conscious.
What are the Ego and the Id?
400
The first American poet
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
400
The Romantic "I" that represents the phrase 'mind over matter.'
What is idealism?
400
In which work did Emerson argue that the rich are actually poor?
What is "Nature"?
400
This story is specifically known as a moral allegory.
What is "Young Goodman Brown"?
400
The translation of "nemo me impune lacessit."
What is "no one provokes me with impunity"?
500
The ideal that led the Puritans to reject the King of England as their leader, ultimatey prompting them to come to America.
What is Absolute Sovereignty of God?
500
We read two poems written by this Romantic poet.
Who is William Cullen Bryant?
500
The main guiding principle of Transcendentalism that is also an "I" of Romanticism.
What is intuition?
500
The quote "to be great is to be misunderstood" appeared in which Transcendental work?
What is "Self-Reliance"?
500
A phrase that embodies the Enlightenment.
What is "I think, therefore I am" or "cogito ergo sum"?