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Romantic and Gothic Literature
Romantic and Gothic Literature
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A review of the characteristics of Romantic and Gothic literature
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In Gothic novels female characters tend to be in need to rescuing, dead, or dying
False
True
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Rejects or questions standard social conventions and norms of behavior
Classic hero
Romantic hero
Byronic Hero
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A Byronic hero is an extreme variation of the Classic hero archetype
False
True
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defended the potential of the individual and his claim for individual freedom
romanticism
classicism
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place central importance on emotion and upon the individual
romanticism
classicism
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Able to inspire others to commit acts of good and kindness
Byronic hero
Classic hero
Romantic hero
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Valued clarity, order, and balance
classicism
romanticism
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Emphasized reason over imagination, the social over the personal, common over the individual
romanticism
classicism
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Believed the spiritual unity of all forms, God, humanity, and nature shared a universal soul
gothic
romanticism
transcendentalism
classicism
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Believed the key to the inner world was imagination
classicism
romanticism
11
The American Romantic period was marked by which of the following events?
unrestrained growth, westward expansion, population growth
population and industrial growth, presidential impeachment
scientific discovery and the beginning of slavery
expansion east, scientific discovery, elimination slavery
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Which of the following was NOT a common subject for romantic writers?
The Inner World of Human Nature
Human Love Relationships
Nature
The Past
13
The American Romantic period included which years?
1826 to 1865
1800 to 1845
1815 to 1865
1850 to 1900
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Rested in the belief that reason is the dominating trait of nature and human nature
classicism
romanticism
gothic
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Reform an important characteristic of the Romantic Period
True
False
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America was propelled by which two forces during the Romantic Period?
Optimism about the present and dissatisfaction about future
Dissatisfaction with the present and optimism about future
Dissatisfaction with the present and fear of technology
Optimism about the present and excitement about technology
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Gothic writers turned to the past with a type of imitation of medievalism
True
False
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Upheld tradition often to the point of resisting change
classicism
romanticism
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Gothic characters include all but which stock character type?
mean librarian
wandering Jew
persecuted maiden
tyrants
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Rebels against conventional modes of behavior and thought
Classic hero
Romantic hero
Byronic hero
