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Romanticism Review
American Literature
Romanticism ReviewName theLit. Device
VocabularyName the
AuthorAuthor
InformationLiterary Terms
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The Soul Selects her own SocietyThen shuts the door--
Name the Lit. Device 100
Alliteration
100
While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping,As of someone gently rapping,
rapping at my chamber door.
Name the Lit. Device 200
Consonance &Internal Rhyme
200
It goads me, like the Goblin Bee --
Name the Lit. Device 300
Simile
300
I’d wind the months in balls
Name the Lit. Device 400
Metaphor
400
The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, He complains of my gab and my loitering.
Name the Lit. Device 500
Personification
500
impede
Vocabulary100
to slow the progress of; to hinder
100
sagacious
Vocabulary200
wise, shrewd
200
aversion
Vocabulary300
intense dislike or reluctance
300
earnest
Vocabulary400
marked by or showing deep sincerity or
seriousness
400
intimate
Vocabulary500
to make know indirectly; hint or imply
500
“It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea.”
Name the author100
Edgar Allan Poe
100
“How strange…that a simple black veil…should
become such a terrible thing on Mr.
Hooper’s Face.”
Name the author200
Nathanial Hawthorne
200
“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;
that imitation is suicide.”
Name the author300
Ralph Waldo Emerson
300
“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and
could not spare any more for that one.”
Name the author400
Henry David Thoreau
400
“On the day succeeding the fire, I visited the ruins. The walls, with one
exception, had fallen in.”
Name the author500
Edgar Allan Poe
500
Spent night in jail for not paying his taxes
Author Information100
Henry David Thoreau
100
Wrote Leaves of Grass
Author Information200
Walt Whitman
200
Father of the modern detective story
Author Information300
Edgar Allan Poe
300
Wrote about secret sin and the isolation of the
individual
Author Information400
Nathanial Hawthorne
400
Married Lydia Jackson
Author Information500
Ralph Waldo Emerson
500
romanticism
Literature Terms100
A movement in the arts that flourished in
Europe and America in the 19th century that emphasized emotion
and insight over reason
100
brooding romantics
Literature Terms200
Romantic writers whose writings--•had dark, unusual themes•showed a deep awareness of
human capacity for evil•showed man as tragic hero•included psychological insights
200
transcendentalist
Literature Terms300
Romantic writers who –•rely on man’s intuition and
man’s conscience
•are disgusted with conformity & praised individuality
•focus on spiritual well-being
•feel close to nature300
archetype
Literature Terms400
fundamental element or pattern in
literature that is repeated through
out the ages
400
parable
Literature Terms500
a short story that teaches a moral lesson
500