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Romanticism Review

Explore the themes, literary devices, vocabulary, and authors of Romanticism in American literature. Learn about brooding romantics, transcendentalists, and the use of metaphors, alliteration, and more. Gain insights into the movement that emphasized emotion and insight over reason.

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Romanticism Review

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  1. Romanticism Review American Literature

  2. Romanticism Review

  3. Name the Lit. Device 100 The Soul Selects her own SocietyThen shuts the door--

  4. Alliteration 100

  5. Name the Lit. Device 200 While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

  6. Consonance &Internal Rhyme 200

  7. Name the Lit. Device 300 It goads me, like the Goblin Bee --

  8. Simile 300

  9. Name the Lit. Device 400 I’d wind the months in balls

  10. Metaphor 400

  11. Name the Lit. Device 500 The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, He complains of my gab and my loitering.

  12. Personification 500

  13. Vocabulary 100 impede

  14. to slow the progress of; to hinder 100

  15. Vocabulary 200 sagacious

  16. wise, shrewd 200

  17. Vocabulary 300 aversion

  18. intense dislike or reluctance 300

  19. Vocabulary 400 earnest

  20. marked by or showing deep sincerity or seriousness 400

  21. Vocabulary 500 intimate

  22. to make know indirectly; hint or imply 500

  23. Name the author 100 “It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea.”

  24. Edgar Allan Poe 100

  25. Name the author 200 “How strange…that a simple black veil…should become such a terrible thing on Mr. Hooper’s Face.”

  26. Nathanial Hawthorne 200

  27. Name the author 300 “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”

  28. Ralph Waldo Emerson 300

  29. Name the author 400 “I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more for that one.”

  30. Henry David Thoreau 400

  31. Name the author 500 “On the day succeeding the fire, I visited the ruins. The walls, with one exception, had fallen in.”

  32. Edgar Allan Poe 500

  33. Author Information 100 Spent night in jail for not paying his taxes

  34. Henry David Thoreau 100

  35. Author Information 200 Wrote Leaves of Grass

  36. Walt Whitman 200

  37. Author Information 300 Father of the modern detective story

  38. Edgar Allan Poe 300

  39. Author Information 400 Wrote about secret sin and the isolation of the individual

  40. Nathanial Hawthorne 400

  41. Author Information 500 Married Lydia Jackson

  42. Ralph Waldo Emerson 500

  43. Literature Terms 100 romanticism

  44. A movement in the arts that flourished in Europe and America in the 19th century that emphasized emotion and insight over reason 100

  45. Literature Terms 200 brooding romantics

  46. Romantic writers whose writings-- •had dark, unusual themes •showed a deep awareness of human capacity for evil •showed man as tragic hero •included psychological insights 200

  47. Literature Terms 300 transcendentalist

  48. Romantic writers who – •rely on man’s intuition and man’s conscience •are disgusted with conformity & praised individuality •focus on spiritual well-being •feel close to nature 300

  49. Literature Terms 400 archetype

  50. fundamental element or pattern in literature that is repeated through out the ages 400

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