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Romantics Test Flashcards

1
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Beguiling

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Charming

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Countenance

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Facial expression

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Craven

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Very cowardly

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Obeisance

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Gesture of respect

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Avarice

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Greed

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Bosom

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A human chest; a person’s heart holding his or her deepest thoughts, feelings, or emotions

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Rigorous

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Harsh; severe; demanding or difficult

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Sagacious

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Having or showing keen judgment; intellectually quick;wise

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Unutterable

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Beyond what can be expressed or described in words;to terrible to be spoken

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Wretchedness

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A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; a state of being distressed; utter misery

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Married his cousin

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Edgar Allan Poe

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1st popular American writer

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Died mysteriously

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Addicted to Opium

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Gothic Writer

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Traditional American romantic writer

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17
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Developed Natty Bumpo

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Wrote the Devil and Tom Walker

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1st popular American writer

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Died mysteriously

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Addicted to Opium

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Gothic Writer

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Traditional American romantic writer

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Developed Natty Bumpo

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?

25
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Wrote the Devil and Tom Walker

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?

26
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Name that author:

1st popular American writer

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Washington Irvin

27
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Died Mysteriously

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Edgar Allan Poe

28
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Name that author:

Addicted to opium

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Washington Irvin

29
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Name that author:

Gothic Writer

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Edgar Allan Poe

30
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Name that author:

Traditional Romantic American writer

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Washington Irvin

31
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Name that author:

Developed Natty Bumpo

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James Cooper

32
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Name that author:

Wrote the Devil and Tom Walker

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Washington Irvin

33
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Who were the three fireside poets?

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Longfellow
Whittier
Holmes

34
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Short Answer:

What are the 5 I’s?

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Intuition	
Imagination
Innocence
Inspiration from nature
Inner Experience
35
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Explain the 3 levels of Poe’s writing

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Surface
Symbolic
Insight

36
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Identify the 3 elements of a folk tale

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Unlikely event-Making a deal w/ the devil
Stereotyped character-Tom and his wife were both miserly
Lesson-Cherish your time with you love ones (Rip Van Winkle)

37
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Short Answer:

Infer a lesson that was taught to the reader in Devil and Tom Walker

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Just because you have all the money in the world doesn’t mean you are happy, Tom had lots of money but was sad and disliked. This shows that money cant buy happiness.

38
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What is the single effect and who uses it?

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He believed that every character,detail and incident in the story should contribute to the overall feel of the story
Edgar Allan Poe

39
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Short Answer:

What is alteration, consonance, and assonance?

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Alliteration-the repetition of beginning
Consonance-the repetition of constance sounds
Assonance-the repetition of vowel sounds in words.

40
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Short Answer:

Name 3 uses of dark symbolism in The Raven

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The Raven
December at midnight
The bird’s shadow

41
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Name that Story:

Unnatural relationships between twins

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Usher

42
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Name that Story:

Setting December at midnight

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The Raven

43
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Name that Story:

Uses stock characters

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The Devil and Tom Walker

44
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Name that Story:

Refers to the devil as old scratch

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The Devil and Tom Walker

45
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Name that Story:

Features a narrator that has lost his love Lenor

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The Raven

46
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Name that Story:

A man who hangs his pet

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The Black Cat

47
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Name that Story:

Man finds a heart and liver in a tree

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The Devil and Tom Walker

48
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Name that Story:

Main character refuses to be a slave trader

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The Devil and Tom Walker

49
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Name that Story:

Sister buried alive

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Usher

50
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Name that Story:

Narrator is hopeless at conclusion

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The Raven

51
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Name that Story:

Alcoholism leads to Perverseness

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The Black Cat

52
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Name that Story:

Man sleeps through the Revolutionary war

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Rip Van Winkle

53
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Name that Story:

Animal reveals the narrators guilt

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The Black Cat

54
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Name that Story:

7 rooms hold symbolic meaning

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The Masque of the Red Death

55
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Name that Story:

A prince tries to cheat death but fails

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The Masque of the Red Death

56
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Short Answer:

Romantic literature is often a journey from the ___ to the _____.

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City to country

57
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Short Answer:

______ is the name given to schools of thought that value ____ and ____ over ______.

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Romanticism,Feeling,intuition, reason

58
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Short Answer:

The Gothics had roots in ____,_____ and ______ literature.

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French,German and English

59
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Short Answer:

The typical romantic hero is ______,______,______,and_____.

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young,innocent,knowledge,and sense of humor

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