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Name two characteristics of the Romantic movement.

Emphasis on nature, the self (individualism), emotion, intuition, imagination; Interest in the exotic and fantastic; Celebration of common and rural life, etc.

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True or False: Both Romantics and Transcendentalists believed in the supremacy of intuition and emotion over logic and reason.

True

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True or False: Romanticism emerged as a reaction against the realities of the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment.

True

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Name one Romantic author that we read this unit and describe their work.

Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, etc.

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Name one characteristic of the Gothic subgenre of Romanticism.

Scary, gloomy settings, supernatural events, strong emotions, dark themes, unreliable narrators, etc.

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A story within a story, or a story that represents a larger message or meaning is an...

allegory

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In "The Masque of the Red Death", what could the clock in the final room of Prince Prosper's abbey symbolize?

time / death

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"Wealth cannot protect one from disease and death" could be a theme statement for which text that we've read?

"The Masque of the Red Death"

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What literary device does Emily Dickinson use to describe death in "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"?

Personification: she describes death as a kind and gentlemanly carriage driver.

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Describe the tone of "Because I Could Not Stop For Death".

Calm, peaceful, thoughtful

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Longfellow's repetition of the lines "A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts" is an example of... a. onomatopoeia b. allegory c. anaphora

c. anaphora

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Name one theme of "My Lost Youth".

Nostalgia, memory, the passage of time, childhood, etc.

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In which century do both Romanticism and Trancendentalism emerge as literary movements?

19th century

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Name two characteristics of the Transcendentalist movement.

Emphasis on self-reliance, connection with nature; belief in unity of all creation, natural goodness of humanity; Intuition and experience over logic

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Name one cause that Transcendentalists advocated for.

Abolition of slavery, End of the Mexican-American war, women's voting rights, better working conditions, educational innovation, freedom of religion, etc.

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Name one Transcendentalist author that we have read in this unit and describe their work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau

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