english romanticism test Flashcards
The author writes without the intent to make things symbolic, but the reader can draw symbols from the story
Projected symbolism
The Red Death it is based on a rare form on the Black Plague called ___________ plague, which attacked the blood stream
Septicemic
The author writes with the intent to make things symbolic or representative of something else
Indented Symbolism
Allegory is a story with ____ meanings, a ____ meaning and a ____ meaning
Two; literal; symbolic
Prince Prospero represents ______, ______, and ______. On a deeper level he represents _________.
wealth, prosperity, and the aristocrats; man’s futile attempt to escape death
The rooms in MORD represent the ______________.
Blue represents ______
Purple represents a transition to _______
Green represents the _____________
Orange represents ______________
White is ______
Violet is the _________
The red and black room representing the ____________________
seven stages of life; birth, transition to royalty, growth of youth, strength and maturity, purity, last stage, death and knowledge and wisdom with age
Name one aspect of Theory two and the seven deadly sins
Anger - the Prince becomes angry with the uninvited guest and attacks it.
The clock represents the __________, minute by minute
ticking away of life
The guess at the party was dressed as the ________
Red Death
He wrote several stories that hold popularity,
_______ and _______
Washington Irving; Legend of Sleepy Hollow and
Rip Van Winkle
It should be noted that Irving was the first American to reach _____________.
International literary celebrity status
In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Irving uses _____ to show how hypocritical the Puritans of this era had become.
satire
Greedy
Avarice
Washington Irving used ___________ in his work
Stock Characters
Stock characters are characters who represent _______________
one human emotion or characteristics
Toms wife is a stock character for ______
greed
Is a body of stories, legends, myths, ballads, songs, riddles, sayings, and other works arising out of the oral traditions of people around the globe
Folklore
The main character of ________ refuses to be a
Devil and Tom Walker; slave trader
The devil is called
Old Scratch in Devil and Tom Walker
Tom Walker finds a _______ tied in an apron
heart and liver
In _________ a man sleeps for twenty years
Rip Van Winkle
In _________ a character plays nine pins with little men in the mountains
Rip Van Winkle
The poem begins at Midnight in December
The Raven
Name four examples of light in the Raven
Lenore-radiant beauty
White bust of Pallas
Lamplight
Angels
