ENGLISH: Romanticism Flashcards
Romanticism
Romanticism
_____: the name given to those schools of thought that value feeling and intuition over reason.
Romanticism.
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.
Transcendentalism
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.
Anti-Transcendentalism (dark romantics)
Romanticism
William Cullen brant, Henry David thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry wadsworth Longfellow, Washington irving, Emily Dickenson, Walt Whitman are…
Transcendentalists
Romanticism
Nathanial Hawthorne, Edgar Allan poe, Thoreau, Gandhi, Martin luther king jr., Neruda, Whitman, Dickenson, are
Dark romantics.
Romanticism
_____: the overall feeling or atomosphere of a story, play, or poem.
Mood
Romanticism
_____: special type of inference
Prediction
Romanticism
__: original fundamental imaginative pattern, that is repeated through ages.
Archetype
Romanticism
_____: is pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
Meter.
Romanticism
___: pairing to stressed syllables
Spondees
Romanticism
_____: 14- line rhymed poem written in iambic pentameter.
Sonnet
Romanticism
Question then answering problems.
Petrarchhan sonnet
Romanticism
____: 3 quatrains followed by couplet that rhymes.
Shakespearean
Romanticism
Who consisted of the fireside poets?
Boston group of Henry wadsworth, longfellow, john green leaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James russel lowell.
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
Outside to look at the stars
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.
He values nature highly and has some contempt for society
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.
describe a profound way of seeing nature
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
word pictures
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…”
“the starts awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always in accessible…”
