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1) American Romanticism Flashcards

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Duration of American Romanticism

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cca 1830s to 1865 (end of the Civil War)

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Characteristics of American Romanticism

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focus on the individual, emotion over logic, celebration of nature, emphasis on imagination and creativity

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Washington Irving

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Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Rip Van Winkle

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Washington Irving

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Washington Irving

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Which author wrote the genre of historical romance and has his novels set in America’s frontier in the 18th century?

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Leatherstocking Tales

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James Fenimore Cooper

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What are the names of the stories in Leatherstocking Tales?

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The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer

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What is the name of the character which connects Leatherstocking Tales?

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Natty Bumpoo

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Who was the first American folk hero?

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Natty Bumpoo

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Who was Catherine Maria Sedgewick?

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a novelist

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Catherine Maria Sedgewick

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Hope Leslie

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Hope Leslie

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Catherine Maria Sedgewick

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Which genre is Hope Leslie?

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historical romance

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What is the setting of Hope Leslie?

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early colonial times, Puritans and Indians, strong female heroins, interracial relationships

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Who was Lydia Huntley Sigourney?

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a very popular poet, wrote educative books for young ladies, criticised slavery and the destruction of wilderness

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney

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Fallen Forest, Indian Names, To the First Slave Ship

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Into which genre does Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) belong?

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dark romanticism

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E. A. Poe is seen as a predecessor to which subgenre in the 20th century?

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Southern Gothic

20
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Name some authors who belong to the Southern Gothic subgenre

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Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner

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Features of Poe’s fiction

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themes of horror, tragedy, the supernatural, insanity vs rationality, obsession, irony, unreliable narrators

22
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Which of Poe’s works was published in magazines?

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Short Stories

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Which book was Poe’s first publication?

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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

24
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Which Poe’s short story was the most popular one in his lifetime?

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The Gold Bug

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Name some of E. A. Poe’s (1809-1849) works

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The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Gold Bug, Short Stories, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Berenice, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle etc.

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E. A. Poe is father of which genre?

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the detective story genre

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Name Poe’s three most famous detective stories

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Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter

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What is the name of the Poe’s detective?

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C. Auguste Dupin

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What is Poe’s poetry like?

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formally perfect poems, mathematically precise rhytmic patterns, regular rythm pattern; The Raven, Anabel Lee

30
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Which of Poe’s work was published posthumously?

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The Poetic Principle

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In The Tell - Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher, the narrator is __________

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unnamed

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What are the names of the two siblings in The Fall of the House of Usher?

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Roderick and Madeline Usher

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What are some of the themes of The Fall of the House of Usher?

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themes of madness, decay, the supernatural, sensation of claustrophobia, confusion between the living things and inanimate objects

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What is the setting in The Fall of the House of Usher?

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we cannot say for sure where in the world or exactly when the story takes place

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Themes of The Black Cat

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themes of guilt, madness, the consequences of one’s actions, unreliable narrator

36
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What is the symbolism behind the black cat?

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the black cat serves as a symbol of the narrator’s guilt

SZZ Americká literatura (18 decks)

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