| Powerpoint Notes | ||
| #1 | The name given to the school of thought that values feeling and intuition over reason is: | Romanticism |
| #2 | The years of American Romanticism are: |
1800-1860 |
| #3 | All of the following are characteristics of the time period | cities continued to grow, new factories built, improvements in transportation |
| #4 | The change in thinking that came with the new literary era had an effect | cuture, science, arts |
| #5 | 6. This person represented the new kind of American hero that represented the natural view of life that was both simple and profound | Natty Bumpo |
| True or False | ||
| #1 | Romanticism places the emphasis on human potential and the power of the individual | True |
| #2 | Romanticism values reason over imagination | False |
| #3 | Romanticism values personal over social | True |
| #4 | Romanticism values common over individual | False |
| #5 | Classicism resisted change and relied on tradition | True |
| Who Wrote it | ||
| #1 | The Minister's Black Veil | Hawthorne |
| #2 | Annabel Lee | Poe |
| #3 | Walden | Thoreau |
| #4 | Self-Reliance | Emerson |
| #5 | Nature | Emerson |
| Literature Terms | ||
| #1 | The feeling created by the writer of a literary work | Mood |
| #2 | A lesson about human nature that a story teaches | Moral |
| #3 | Details that appeal to a reader’s 5 senses | Imagery |
| #4 | The central message of a piece of writing | Main Idea |
| #5 | the contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens | Irony |
| Thoreau and Emerson | ||
| #1 | When did the author begin to live the house at Walden Pond | Independence Day July 4th |
| #2 | Complete the quote from the sentence. “If the _______________ should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore…” | stars |
| #3 | What is the opposite of “self-reliance”? | conformity |
| #4 | The author tells us that we could do without this | Post Office |
| #5 | The author tells us that people tend to fall into habitual activities, and by doing “this,” they stop thinking for themselves. The author called these | ruts |
| Final Question | |
| What does the author mean when he says that he, “wanted to live deep and suck out all of the marrow of life.” | carpe diem...seize the day...make the most of life |