SEMESTER 1 FINAL-Q2

Question 1

Beginning of American Romanticism

Heavily influenced by ____ Romantic movement (1798-1832) which corresponded with the ___ Revolution

Answer 1

British, French

Question 2

Characteristics of Romantic Philosophy & Art

Answer 2

A. Universe is mysterious and incomprehensible 
B. Individual 
C. Imagination
D. Nature 
E.  Greek, Roman, Norse, Celtic, Gothic 
F. Oversoul

Question 3

Gothic Romance

Answer 3

combines horror and romance; ghosts, haunted houses, castles, vampires, dark forests

Question 4

Major Figures

Answer 4

Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, Poe, Irving

Question 5

Romantic vs Enlightenment

Answer 5

R: emotional, individualistic, revolutionary, love solitude & nature, creative
E: reasonable, practical, conservative, urban life, mechanical,

Question 6

ASK STEIG

Answer 6

..

Question 7

The big “I”s

Answer 7

Imagination, Intuition, Individual, Idealism

Question 8

Possible essay topic–common hero

Answer 8

Ben Franklin: educated, inventor, important

different from romanticism

Question 9

American romanticism took place between…

Answer 9

1820s-1860s

Question 10

defend transcend

Answer 10

to move beyond/past

Question 11

emerson followed locke’s theory of ___ and knowledge being acquired from the outside through the senses was insufficient

Answer 11

tabula rosa`

Question 12

transcendentalists lived where?

Answer 12

concord MA

Question 13

Anti-transcendentalists

Answer 13

Melvin and Hawthorne

Question 14

whitman’s major work

Answer 14

leaves of grass

Question 15

themes of song of myself

Answer 15

1. individualism
2. greatness of america
3. democracy
4. brotherhood/unity

Question 16

Gothic background

Answer 16

goth–post roman, medieval

germanic: fairy tales

Question 17

germanic:

Answer 17

the monsters in the stories move from classical greek (centaurs, gorgons, vampires)

Question 18

castles

Answer 18

irregular architect (not square)
stories are weird, scary, creepy

Question 19

4 characters in a gothic story

Answer 19

1. dangerous man
2. the safe man
3. the wise old man
4. the questing woman

Question 20

FINAL ELEMENT in gothic literature

Answer 20

new life–a marriage, a birth