Romanticism, Irving Fireside Poets

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the _____ is the most common pattern in all of narrative literature

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journey

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Benjamin Franklin used the journey motif when writing about going to what city?

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Philadelphia

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Franklin sees Philadelphia as a city of ____

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opportunity

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Charles Brown describes a different trip to the same city in his novel

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Arthur Mervyn

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By the time of Brown's novel, cities are _____. ______. ______. hells

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decayed
corrupted
dirty

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Franklin's worldview is that of a

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rational

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Brown's worldview is that of a

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romantic

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Romanticism is the journey away from the corruption of _____ and the limits of ____ thought and toward the integrity of _______ and the freedom of ________

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civilization
rational
nature
imagination

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Romanticism came from the ideals and reason embodied in the ____ and the _____ revolution

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enlightenment
French

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Romanticism was a reaction to

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rationalism

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Romantics believed that ______ was able to reach truths that reason could not

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imagination

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Romantics valued ____, ______, and ____ over reason, logic, planning, and civilization

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intuition
spontaneity
feelings

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Romantics sought a higher truth in _____ settings of the past, the _____ world, the _____ realm, and _______

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exotic
natural
supernatural
folktales

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Romantics believed that _____ is the highest expression of imagination

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poetry

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The American Romantic novel includes the _____ experience

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wilderness

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The development of the American novel coincided with_____ expansion, the growth of ______ spirit, and the spread of ______

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westward
nationalistic
civilization

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_____ wrote Pioneers, which broke free of European settings

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Cooper

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The protagonist of this novel is _______

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Natty Bumpo

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three words that describe the new American Romantic hero

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virtuous, heroic, close to nature

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four Fireside poets

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Bryant
Longfellow
Holmes
Whittier

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four subjects of the fireside poets

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love
patriotism
god
religion

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what details in rip van winkle reveal a romantic fascination with the past and nature

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setting represents nature (escapes city and nagging wife to the beautiful nature)

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theme of rip van winkle

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magical change that is wrought by time

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thanatopsis means

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seeing death

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thanatopsis was written by who

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Bryant

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Bryant had read Words worth and Coleridge's book titled

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lyrical ballads

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Bryant was influenced by ____ and ______

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deism and geography of his setting

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Robert Blair's poem _____ was most likely what inspired Bryan to write Thanatopsis

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the grave

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two speakers in thanatopsis

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mankind
nature

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a metrical unit of poetry

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foot

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pairing two stressed syllables to avoid the singsong effect in a poem

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spondee

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poetic technique in which the sounds of words are used to echo their sense

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onomatopoeia

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author of the cross of snow

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longfellow

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specific type of sonnet of the cross of snow

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petrachran

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rhyme scheme of petrachran

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abba
abba
cde
cde

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first eight lines

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octave

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last six lines

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sestet

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author of Snow Bound

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Whittier

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a nostalgic work describing a pleasant rural scene or homey setting

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Idyll

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author of the chambered nautilus and old ironsides

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holmes

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a direct address to an object or to someone who is not present

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apostrophe

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figure of speech developed throughout several lines or an entire work

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extended metaphor

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real name of the ship in "old ironsides"

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USS Constitution

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creatures with the head and body of a women and the wings, claw, legs and tail of a bird

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harpie

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the two men who believed american would produce truly great writing

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hawthorne
melville

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hawthorne and melville's common bond

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a belief in intuition and imagination, making them romantics

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what was the geographic center of intellectual and social ferment in the US at this time

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North East

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3 goals of the Lyceum movement

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educate teachers
educate adults
improve cultural apprecation

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these groups wished to remove themselves in order to create better communities

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utopian groups

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name one utopian group

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shaker village

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the word transcendental comes from the 18th centure German philosopher

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Kant

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Emerson said these oldest thought actually came from this group of people

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idealist

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the philosophy of the idealists

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idealism

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transcendentalists viewed____ as the doorway to a mystical world holding important truths

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nature

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this was more important than reason to transcendentalists

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imagination
intuition