Transforming The Imagination Test

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Define American Romanticism

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a journey away from the corruption of civilization and the limits of rational thought -- a movement toward the integrity of nature and the freedom of imagination

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Romanticism began in ________ in ________

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Germany; second half of the 18th century

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Explain how the industrial revolution spawned romanticism.

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The Industrial Revolution brought about squalid cities and wretched working conditions. It gave way to the Romantic view that imagination was able to reveal truths that the rational mind could not see.

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Name some characteristics of romanticism.

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Value feeling and intuition over reason
Poetry is the highest form of imagination
Looked to the wisdom of the past and didn't like the future
Valued childhood innocence over educated sophistication
Liked the myths, legends, and folk tales

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Discuss the fireside poets

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They wanted to prove that they weren't just stupid Americans, so they wrote like the British with the same meter, rhyme, and diction. Their poems were often read aloud at the fireside.

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Common themes of fireside poets

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Family, religion, love, God, nature, patriotism

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Uniquely American Themes

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American folk tales, abolitionist issues, American Indian culture, American landscapes

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Discuss Washington Irving

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American literary celebrity. Wrote under diff names like Geoffrey Crayon, Deidrich Knickerbocker, and Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.

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Inflated diction

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pompous- high flow language to describe commonplace things

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Setting

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the physical, geographical, or historical environment in which a story takes place

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motif

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common narrative elements such as enchanted slumber, perilous journey, mysterious supernatural beings, and sleep inducing potions

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Satire

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caustic wit or irony used to expose or attack human folly

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Significance of Wolf

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Rip Van Winkle's dog. Forgot him. WASHINGTON IRVING; RIP VAN WINKLE.

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Significance of Dame Van Winkle

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She is Rip's wife. She henpeck's Rip, driving him from the home. WASHINGTON IRVING; RIP VAN WINKLE.

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Significance of a company of odd-looking personages playing at ninepins

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These are the people who put Rip into his enchanted slumber. They are a short group of men with long beards. They rmind me of garden gnomes. WASHINGTON IRVING; RIP VAN WINKLE

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Discuss William Cullen Bryant

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He is the father of American poetry. Bryant wrote about free speech, religion, abolition of slavery, politics, and social reform. He was inspired by the geography of Massachusetts, deism, and English romanticism.

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"nor couldst thou wish/Couch more magnificent"

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One could not ask for any better place to be buried than within the earth. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT; THANATOPSIS

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"The gay will laugh/When thou art gone the solemn brood of care/Plod on and each one as before will chase/His favorite phantom;"

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Even when you are gone, life will move on for others. They will have to move on with life. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT; THANATOPSIS

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"Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch/About him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

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You will die peacefully, and the Earth will accept you. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT; THANATOPSIS

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Discuss Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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America's most famous poet. Lost two wives. One during childbirth, the other to a fire. Honored with a marble image in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner.

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Symbol: horse and hostler

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Life goes on. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; THE TIDE RISES, THE TIDE FALLS.

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Symbol: tide action

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Life is a cycle. The tide rises and falls every day. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; THE TIDE RISES, THE TIDE FALLS

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Symbol: Traveler

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This is the human, and it represents man who will eventually die. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; THE TIDE RISES, THE TIDE FALLS.

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"The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls/Stamps and neigh, as the hostler calls;"

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Life goes on. Every morning has a new dawn. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; THE TIDE RISES, THE TIDE FALLS.

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"...and soul more white/Never through martyrdom of fire was led/To its repose..."

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Never has a woman so good and holy been led through fire to her death. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; THE CROSS OF SNOW

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"There is a mountain in the distant West/That, sun-defying in its deep ravines/Displays a cross of snow upon its side"

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This refers to a mountain in Colorado called the Mount of the Holy Cross. In its crevices, there is a cross which is visible with the white snow. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; THE CROSS OF SNOW

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Discuss John Greenlead Whittier

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He was a poor, Quaker. He was connected with Wm Lloyd Garrison.

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Idyll

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a nostalgic work describing a pleasant rural scene or homey setting

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Allusions in Snow Bound

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Chinese roof, egyptian God, leaning tower of Pisa

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Warm hearth

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This is the home where the people gather during the snowstorm. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER; SNOW BOUND: A WINTER IDYLL

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"A night made heavy with the swarm/And whirl-dance of the blinding storm./A zigzag wavering to and fro,/Crossed and recrossed the winged snow."

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It was a blizzard. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER; SNOW BOUND: A WINTER IDYLL

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"Meanwhile we did our nightly chores,/Brought in the wood from out of doors,/Littered the stalls, and from the mows,/Raked down the herd's grass for the cows."

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Regardless of the storm, they still had to do their nightly chores. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER; SNOW BOUND: A WINTER IDYLL

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Discuss Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Descendant of Anne Bradstreet. Founded Atlantic Monthly.

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Extended metaphor

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a metaphor developed throughout several lines or an entire work

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Stately mansions

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Life. OLIVER WENDELL HOMES; THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

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Low vaulted past

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The past. Low vault refers to the previous chamber of the nautilus. OLIVER WENDELL HOMES; THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

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Outgrown shell

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You have to keep moving in life. OLIVER WENDELL HOMES; THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

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Unresting sea

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Life does not rest, and it is full of struggles and challenges. OLIVER WENDELL HOMES; THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

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Apostrophe

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direct address to an object or person that is not there

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"This is the ship of pearl, which poets feign."

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The ship of pearl is the nautilus. OLIVER WENDELL HOMES; THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

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"Let each new temple, nobler than the last,/Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast."

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May every new place you seek be more grand and exciting than the last. OLIVER WENDELL HOMES; THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS

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"The meteor of the ocean air/Shall sweep the clouds no more"

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The ship shall no longer sail and its cannons shall no longer fire. OLIVER WENDELL HOMES; OLD IRONSIDES

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"And give her to the gods of storms./The lightning and the gale."

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Let the USS Constitution be put to death at sea. OLIVER WENDELL HOMES; OLD IRONSIDES