English 1125 Flashcards
The dates of the Expansion Period are:
1816-1850
What was the new literary style of the Expansion Period?
romanticism
What was the new philosophy followed by some?
Transcendentalism
How did Mr. Hawthorne’s philosophy of life differ from the transcendentalists?
He recognized the depravity of man
What book greatly influenced Mr. Hawthorne as a youth?
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Define a satire:
a writing that attacks or ridicules something
What literary work ridiculed modern, liberal religious practices and transcendentalism?
A Celestial Railroad
Define an allegory:
A story with an underlying meaning different from the surface meaning
Name a literary work that is both satire and an allegory
The Celestial Railroad
List four works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Celestial Railroad
- Twice-Told Tales
- The Scarlet Letter
- The House of the Seven Gables
What is the title of a more modern version of Pilgrim’s journey toward the Celestial City?
The Celestial Railroad
What is the name of the paper money used in Vanity Fair?
Conscience
Pilgrim’s burden rolled away at Calvary, but where is the traveller’s burden? What will happen to it at the end of the trip?
in the baggage car; He’ll get it back
What is Mr. Smooth-it-away’s explanation for Hell?
the crater of a half-extinct volcano
_____ had the shortest life span of all the writers of the Expansion Period
Edgar Allan Poe
____ had the longest life span
Oliver Wendell Holmes
_____ was the most popular poet of the Expansion Period
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell were known as the _____
Cambride Poets
The two basic kinds of poetry are ____ and ____ poetry
narrative; lyrical
Narrative poetry ____, and ____ poetry appeals _____
tells a story; Lyrical; to the emotions
A ____ is a narrative poem that tells a well-known story in verse form
ballad
The national tragedy to which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow referred to in “Stanzas on Freedom” was the issue of ____
slavery
An ____ shows resemblances between two very different things
analogy
_____, a poem about the ship COnstitution, was the first poem for which Oliver Wendell Holmes gained recognition
Old Ironsides
