Do romantics value feeling/intuition or reason more?
What is feeling/intuition
100
Example: While I nodded, nearly napping
Alliteration
100
Example: The mason singing, the boatman singing, the shoemaker, the mother, and the mechanics song.
Catalog
100
Died without knowing fame, the poet's sister responsible for finding boxes of poems after death.
Emily Dickinson
100
Written with the use of internal rhyme and repetition to help capture the mood and tone of a tormented lover.
The Raven
200
List 2 characteristics of the American romantic hero.
What is youth, innocent, intuition over education, loves nature, quest for higher truth in the natural world.
200
Emily Dickinson is known for this close, but not exact, sound in her poetry.
slant rhyme
200
Musical run of words that rises and falls as the poet sings the song.
Cadence
200
This poet known for tightly woven words and precision-Need Nickname of the Poet.
The Recluse of Amherst
200
story that was an allegory for greed, deceit, and immorality.
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
300
Marked by these beliefs: God is in every aspect of nature, nature is a reflection of the divine spirit, an ability to transcend everyday experiences to determine important matters.
What is Transcendentalism
300
Example: rapping/tapping
Onomatopoeia
300
Poetry that does not conform to regular meter or rhyme scheme.
Free Verse
300
Name the book that was a collection of poems by Walt Whitman that had 9 revisions before his death.
Leaves of Grass
300
Poem by Walt Whitman that celebrated the spirit of working Americans.
I Hear America Singing
400
A group of Romantic writers that explored good and evil, effects of guilt and sin, and the psyche.
Dark Romantics
400
choice of words to fit their context: examples-surcease, implore, grave, bleak
Diction
400
Discrepancy between appearances and reality, suitable and what actually happens.
Irony
400
Explain why each poet was a maverick
Whitman=free verse; Dickinson=slant rhyme and evoked feeling in perfect tight phrases.
400
An essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson that was an argument for nonconformity. Calls upon us to express ourselves and not to imitate others.
"Self-Reliance"
500
This Dark Romantic laid the foundations for the modern detective story.
Edgar Allan Poe
500
Give the Rhyme Scheme for the following stanza:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
And so are you.
A,B,C,B
500
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth, for example, Emily Dickinson's poem "Much Madness is Divinest Sense"
Paradox
500
The "Bard of Democracy"
Walt Whitman
500
A poem that captures the Romantic poets aim at using nature as source of inspiration. The meter of this poem helps mimic the very sound within nature the poet reflects on.