History
The Romantic period in American Literature focused on which 3 characteristics?
emotion, nature, & the individual
This author of the poem The Raven.
Edgar Allan Poe
True or False: Transcendentalists believed you could find beauty in the ordinary.
True
Were Transcendentalists individualists or collectivists
individualists
"Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before" is an example of what device?
Alliteration
True or False: Transcendentalists rejected the idea of organized religion, but were still spiritual.
True
Who was the author of the short story Young Goodman Brown?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Did transcendentalists think that humans were inherently good or bad
What word goes with the definition: "to go above or beyond the limitations that have been imposed on you by society".
Transcend
In Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death," Death is characterized as...
kind, respectful, gentle
What is the conclusion of Young Goodman Brown?
With Brown losing his faith and trusting no one
This famous leader of the Transcendentalism movement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Did transcendentalists like conformity
How does Transcendentalism differ from Dark Romanticism?
Nature is foreboding in Dark Romantic works, but it is celebrated as a connecting factor in Transcendentalism literature
The setting of the sun in Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death" symbolizes...
the end of the speaker's life
Name two similarities between Young Goodman Brown and The Devil and Tom Walker?
Both included moral corruption and spooky forests
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote his most famous work called "__________".
"Nature"
In Emerson's book, Nature, what did he compare himself to? (Think body part).
A transparent eyeball
The Transcendentalism movement happened in what nation?
United States/ America
In Henry David Thoreau's "Walden," the pond is described as...
a mirror-like pond that reflects the beautiful forest and sky
What is the main moral lesson to be learned from The Devil and Tom Walker?
Greed and moral corruption lead to ruin
This leader of the Transcendentalism movement is famous for writing an essay called "Civil Disobedience" and spending the night in jail for refusing to pay taxes. He also was mentored by Emerson.
Henry David Thoreau
Dark Romanticism features nature as foreboding and forbidden. In Young Goodman Brown, the forest symbolizes:
The unknown and temptation
A common theme found in Romantic/Transcendentalist literature.
In Little Women, how does Jo March's character reflect key Transcendentalist ideals?
she went against conformity and fought society's pressures