ENGLISH: Romanticism

Question 1

Romanticism

_____: the name given to those schools of thought that value feeling and intuition over reason.

Answer 1

Romanticism.

Question 2

Romanticism

: refers to the idea that in determining the ultimate reality if god, the universe, the self, and other important matters, one must transcend, or go beyond, everyday human experience in the physical world.

Answer 2

Transcendentalism

Question 3

Romanticism

These writers had much in common with the transcendenta-lists, but instead of complete idealism, explored conflict good+evil, effects of guilt and sin, and destructive underside experi- ence.

Answer 3

Anti-Transcendentalism (dark romantics)

Question 4

Romanticism

William Cullen brant, Henry David thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry wadsworth Longfellow, Washington irving, Emily Dickenson, Walt Whitman are…

Answer 4

Transcendentalists

Question 5

Romanticism

Nathanial Hawthorne, Edgar Allan poe, Thoreau, Gandhi, Martin luther king jr., Neruda, Whitman, Dickenson, are

Answer 5

Dark romantics.

Question 6

Romanticism

_____: the overall feeling or atomosphere of a story, play, or poem.

Answer 6

Mood

Question 7

Romanticism

_____: special type of inference

Answer 7

Prediction

Question 8

Romanticism

__: original fundamental imaginative pattern, that is repeated through ages.

Answer 8

Archetype

Question 9

Romanticism

_____: is pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

Answer 9

Meter.

Question 10

Romanticism

___: pairing to stressed syllables

Answer 10

Spondees

Question 11

Romanticism

_____: 14- line rhymed poem written in iambic pentameter.

Answer 11

Sonnet

Question 12

Romanticism

Question then answering problems.

Answer 12

Petrarchhan sonnet

Question 13

Romanticism

____: 3 quatrains followed by couplet that rhymes.

Answer 13

Shakespearean

Question 14

Romanticism

Who consisted of the fireside poets?

Answer 14

Boston group of Henry wadsworth, longfellow, john green leaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James russel lowell.

Question 15

Romanticism

From “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson: According to “Nature,” where should a person go to be alone?

• to his chamber, his private room in the house.
• to the city’s streets
• to a house of worship
• outside to look at the stars

Answer 15

Outside to look at the stars

Question 16

Romanticism

From “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Which of the following statements best describes Emerson’s attitude towards society?

• He believes that society always has humanity’s best interest at heart.
• He thinks that societies are becoming increasingly civilized.
• He values nature highly and has some contempt for society
• He hopes that nature will someday destroy all societies.

Answer 16

He values nature highly and has some contempt for society

Question 17

Romanticism

From “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Emerson’s purpose in this essay is to…

• express his disappointment in society of his time.
• Explain and analyze how nature works
• describe a profound way of seeing nature
• argue that everyone should leave the cities and live in nature.

Answer 17

describe a profound way of seeing nature

Question 18

Romanticism

From “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Imagery can be described as

• word pictures
• sensory naturalism
• words that have a pleasing sound
• the tone of a literary work

Answer 18

word pictures

Question 19

Romanticism

From “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Which of the following quotations from the selection does not contain an example of imagery?
“the starts awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always in accessible…”
-“the sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.”
-“Standing on the bare ground-my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space-all mean egotism vanishes.
-“the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs…”

Answer 19

“the starts awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always in accessible…”