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Romamticism Flashcards

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What did Romantics believe in?

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They believed in human kinds innate goodness and eventual perfectibility

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Where did the romantic period originate?

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Germany

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What did romanticism embrace?

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It embraced nature as a model for harmony in society and art

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What did romantic literature discard?

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It discarded the formality of the closed heroic couplet and embraced a lyrical openness to style

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When were the Romanticism’s glory years?

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1850-1855

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How was America economically during Romanticism?

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It was as wealthy as ever, but the focus on business and materialism led to reform movements all over America

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How long did Washington Irving live?

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1783-1859

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What basketball team did Washington Irving inspire?

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The New York Knicks

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What did Washington Irving study?

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He studied law at the age of 16

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What was Irving’s pen name?

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Diedrich Knickerbocker

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At what age did Irving die and where was he buried?

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He died at the age of 76 and was buried near the haunting ground of his famous horsemen in the NY Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

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How long did Edgar Allen Poe live?

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1809-1849

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What did Edgar Allen Poe invent?

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He invented modern detective stories

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What sports team did Edgar Allen Poe inspire?

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The Baltimore Ravens

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How was Poe’s youth?

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His father abandoned him as an infant and his mother died of tuberculosis when he was an infant

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How were Poe’s foster parents?

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He was taken in by John Allan, a wealthy Virginia business man

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What happened to Poe at the age of 18?

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He got kicked out of college for gambling debts

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Who did Poe marry?

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In 1834 Poe married his cousin Virginia, she was only 13

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What happened to Poe’s wife/cousin?

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She died of tuberculosis

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What were some reasons for his death?

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His death ranged from alcohol poisoning to brain lesions to rabies

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What were some of Poe’s themes?

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Madness, untimely death, and obsession

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What was Poe’s single effect theory?

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He thought that every work should aim to create a single “effect” or one particular feeling, emotion, or mood in the reader

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When and where was Emily Dickinson born?

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She was born in Amherst on December 10, 1830

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Who was Dickinson’s father and what was he involved in?

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Her father, Edward Dickinson was actively involved in state and national politics, serving in congress for one term

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What does Dickinson’s poetry reflect?

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It reflects her loneliness and the speakers of poems generally live in a state of want

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What was so significant about Dickinson’s fame?

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She was not publicly recognized in her lifetime

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When did Dickinson die?

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She died in Amherst in 1886

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What did Dickinson’s family find upon her death?

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They discovered 40 handbound volumes of nearly 1800 of her poems

29
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What were her poems sometimes called?

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Fascicles

30
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When did Nathaniel Hawthorne live?

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1804-1864

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How did Hawthorne achieve literary success?

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Writing stories for children

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What were some of Hawthorne’s themes?

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Sin, hypocrisy, and guilt

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Where were Hawthorne’s descendants from?

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They were of Puritan decent from Massachusetts

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What was significant about Hawthorne’s great-great-grandfather?

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He was a judge at the Massachusetts Salem Witch Trials and he was one of the only people to not apologize for his role in the trials

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Who was Hawthorne’s wife?

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Sophia Peabody, they married in 1842

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When and how did Hawthorne die?

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He died in 1864 to a sudden illness

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What were the themes that Hawthorne used in his writings?

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Despite his pessimism, his main theme was redeeming the power of love

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What did Romanticism focus on?

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It focused on the individual

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