1800-1860
The years of American Romanticism are:
Description | Match: |
The name given to the school of thought that values feeling and intuition over reason is: | Romanticism |
The years of American Romanticism are: | 1800-1860 |
All of the following are characteristics of the time period | cities continued to grow, new factories built, improvements in transportation |
The change in thinking that came with the new literary era had an effect | cuture, science, arts |
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 |
Romanticism places the emphasis on human potential and the power of the individual | True |
Romanticism values reason over imagination | False |
Romanticism values personal over social | True |
Romanticism values common over individual | False |
Classicism resisted change and relied on tradition | True |
The Minister's Black Veil | Hawthorne |
Annabel Lee | Poe |
Walden | Thoreau |
Self-Reliance | Emerson |
Nature | Emerson |
The feeling created by the writer of a literary work | Mood |
A lesson about human nature that a story teaches | Moral |
Details that appeal to a reader’s 5 senses | Imagery |
The central message of a piece of writing | Main Idea |
the contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens | Irony |
When did the author begin to live the house at Walden Pond | Independence Day July 4th |
Complete the quote from the sentence. “If the _______________ should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore…” | stars |
What is the opposite of “self-reliance”? | conformity |
The author tells us that we could do without this | Post Office |
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 |