Romantic Unit Test Review The Romantic Time Period

Romantic Unit Test Review

The Romantic Time Period The Romantic period lasted from 1800 until… 1860

Romanticism was a reaction to: Rationalism

Rationalism vs. Romanticism Rationalists saw _____ as the place to find success and self-realization. THE CITY Romantics believed in contemplating or becoming one with _____. NATURE

Romantics…. Valued _____ over reason and scientific facts. INTUITION Viewed life ______, not as it really was. AS THEY WOULD LIKE IT TO BE Valued the lessons of the _____, rather than look to the future. PAST

The Fireside Poets Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, and Lowell were all from _____. BOSTON Most taught at _____. HARVARD They were called this because: Families gathered around the fireside to read and be entertained by their poems.

“The Devil and Tom Walker” The story was set during the _____ time period. PURITAN Tom and his wife had a _____ relationship. VIOLENT The story is _____ because Tom tries to get out of his deal with the Devil by using religion. IRONIC

James Fenimore Cooper is credited with creating the first _____. AMERICAN HERO In “The Last of the Mohicans” Hawkeye, the settlers, and the Native Americans were caught in the battle between the _____. FRENCH AND THE BRITISH The _____ of the story/film is a classic characteristic of Romanticism. SETTING

The Dark Romantics According to the Dark Romantics, the only thing that can truly be known is _____. SELF The Dark Romantics see nature as _____. MYSTERIOUS They show individuals who ______ in their attempts to make changes for the better. FAIL

Edgar Allan Poe Created the _____ story. DETECTIVE STORY Used _____ to greatly affect the reader. HORROR Used _____ to expose human nature. EXTREME SITUATIONS

“The Black Cat”/ “Where is Here” “The Black Cat” is told in _____ as the narrator sits in jail for murdering his wife. FLASHBACK In “Where is Here” the author uses ____ to make the ordinary seem scary. MOOD The stranger recalling that his mother’s plant did not have _____ symbolizes that there was something wrong with his childhood. FLOWERS

Transcendentalism _____ was the “Father of Transcendentalism. ” RALPH WALDO EMERSON _____ was considered his greatest student. HENRY DAVID THOREAU They believed that the one had to rely on _____ to achieve spiritual greatness. INTUITION

Transcendentalism According to Emerson, what could cause a person to feel energized, re-born, and like they were communicating with God? NATURE Emerson, who hated conformity, compared imitation to _____. SUICIDE

Transcendentalism Emerson wrote about Galileo and Socrates, and said that “…to be great is to be _____. ” MISUNDERSTOOD Henry David Thoreau built a cabin in Walden Woods because he wanted to _____ his life…. SIMPLIFY …and make sure he had truly lived before _____ HE DIED

Emily Dickinson “The Belle of Amherst” Most of her poems were published _____ AFTER HER DEATH Her style included: • Unique capitalization • Unconventional punctuation – dashes • Concise word choice • Shortness of lines and stanza • Slant rhymes

Emily Dickinson Most important themes: • death/afterlife • madness/suffering • Nature • love (often unrequited)

Walt Whitman A great American poet, known for celebrating ____. THE COMMON MAN Whitman was known for ______! BREAKING THE POETIC RULES His style included: • Free verse • Cadence and catalogs • Parallelism • Repetition (also known as…. . …Anaphora)

Walt Whitman’s style also included the use of sound devices such as: • • Alliteration Assonance Consonance Onomatopoeia

The End of an Era _____ played a large part in bringing about the end of the Romantic Period in American Literature. THE CIVIL WAR

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