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Set 1
- Otmar’s tale of “Peter Klaus” in the Voltssagen is one of the sources of
- In “Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau uses the Civil War as an example of a 19th century
- The phrase or refrain “I prefer not to” recurs in Melville’s “Bartleby, the “
- Authored “The legend of Sleepy Hollow”
- Walt Whitman saw the poet as representative of a small elite class of
- This lecture was delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge
- Helped establish the blueprint for the modern detective tale/story
- A major tenet of Romanticism is the belief that the Natural world is a source of corruption and, man’s societies, a source of goodness.
- Wrote both terror tales and tales of beauty
- Was supported by lawyers, including his brother and father-in-law
- Asserts that the United States is “essentially the greatest “
- The “dead letters’ in this author’s story are equated with his own rejected manuscripts / failed
- We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility – The “He” in the poem is an example of
- Author of “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”
- Primitivism is the belief in the superiority of the simple life and the
- Edgar Allan Poe considered this poet greater than any other American
- It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,
- Says he aimed at the presentation of “sound “
- To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours
- Says he considers “a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my “
- Romantic prose writer of the sea
- This character can be interpreted as an autobiographical representation of Herman
- E pluribus unum, Latin for “one from many,” is thematized in this poem
- Charlotte and Emily Bronte were British contemporaries of Emily
- Defines the scholar as “Man “
- Described poetry as “The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty”
- Establish the technique for the modern detective
- “The Purloined Letter” is an example of
- Asserts that United States is “essentially the greatest poem”
- “Thanatopsis” was written when William Cullen Bryant was 27 years
- When journeying in the forest, this character believes he sees the “elect” in his town going His “experiences” could be real or a dream.
- I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea:
- The following tale of terror uses psychological abnormality to heighten terror:
- Argued that the scholar derives truth about himself and democratic America through nature
- Emerson’s “The American Scholar,” inter alia, is a call for American intellectual
- Lived all her life in Amherst,
- Primitivism and pantheism are some of the major characteristics of
- Dying unmourned is not important, according to this speaker/poet
- “Annabel Lee” uses rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and
- “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is about an individual’s rebellion against society, custom, and
Set 2
- E pluribus unum, Latin for “one from many,” is thematized in this poem_______
- Described poetry as “The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty”
- Author of “Leaves of Grass.”
- We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
The “He” in the poem is an example of ________
- Author of “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”
- Argued that the scholar derives truth about himself and democratic America through nature
- We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
The “He” in the poem refers to ________
- Says life aboard ship (on sea) was “his Harvard and his Yale.”
- “Rip Van Winkle” exhibits elements of legend and folklore.
- Exaltation of emotion over reason is one of the characteristic of Romanticism.
- To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
According to the excerpt, “Nature…/… speaks” “various language,” such as
- “Annabel Lee” uses rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and repetition.
- “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is about an individual’s rebellion against society, custom, and authority.
- Uses references to walls as symbols/metaphors of confinement
- This lecture was delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge
- Edgar Allan Poe considered this poet greater than any other American poet.
- Argued that the scholar derives scholarly truth about himself and democratic America through nature, action and, intuition.
- In his “Civil Disobedience” Thoreau applies transcendentalism to politics.
- E pluribus unum, Latin for “one from many,” is thematized in this poem_______
- Ralph Waldo Emerson praised solitude, being alone in nature to experience true harmony with the world and inner peace.
- Transcendentalism is the belief that man has the capacity of attaining knowledge that transcends the senses.
- The American Renaissance was a time writers began showing enthusiasm about portraying a unique American literature and national life.
- Wrote “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent”
- His graduation poem expressed religious views of orthodox Puritanism.
- One of the major characters in Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” is a Lawyer.
- In “Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau uses the Civil War as an example of a 19th century injustice.
- Once attempted to become a scrivener
- The poem “When Lilacs Last at the Dooryard Bloom’d” thematizes the death of __________
- Which of the following is/are major Romantic characteristics of Washington Irving’s writing:
- Only published 7 poems when s/he was alive
- Expresses idea of the expansive or plural self in his poetry.
- Says the scholar’s main duty is to inspire man to higher levels of knowledge.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes describes his essay as “our intellectual Declaration of Independence.”
- William Cullen Bryant started writing poetry when he was a teenager.
- Writers from this period of American literature believed that nature is great teacher; therefore, one needs to live closer to nature.
- I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love…
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, …
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea
According to the speaker of the poem, his beloved was killed by________
- To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Which period of American literature does this poem best exemplify?
- This poet suggests that only the defeated truly understand the blessings of victory.
- “Thanatopsis” was written when William Cullen Bryant was 27 years old.
- To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
According to the excerpt, “Nature…/… speaks” “various language,” such as