CLEP American Lit: Romantics Final

A famous review of Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse was called "Hawthorne and his Mosses" written by whom?

"Call me Ishmael" is the opening line of what Herman Melville novel?

In many of Hawthorne's prefaces to novels like, The house of the Seven Gables, he explores the definition of what genre?

What dates represent the Romantic Period in American Literature

In "Bartelby, the Scrivener," the conflict arises when his response to his lawyer boss's requests is

This Hawthorne story is commonly referred to as a(n)

Where Emerson was more about the philosophical, Thoreau was more about ?

Which of the following writers was particularlyimportant in the development of the short storyas a literary form?

The stanza above uses what metrical structure?

He wrote : "there is a distinct limit, in regards to length, to all works of literary art-the limit of a single sitting"

What is Young Goodman Brown's wife's name?

This passage comes from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. What does "this monstrous system" refer to?

"Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was written by:

The previous excerpt was from which work of literature?

Which of the following does NOT describe the possible themes of Longfellow's "My Lost Youth"?

Who wrote -"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods...in Concord, MA"?

American Transcendentalism is said to have stemmed from which religion?

This author's writings had impact beyond his own genreation including both Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as Gandhi.

The abundant use of dashes and capitalization are typical conventions of whose poetry?

Nattie Bumpo was a recurring character in a collection of his novels

Which essay is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and ,and Henry David Thoreau,were all part of what literary/philosphical movement

Hester ORynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingsworth are all characters in which Hawthorne novel?

Which novel is NOT part of James Fenimore Cooper's popular Leatherstocking Series?

This anti-slavery writer was actually a former slave..

Walt Whitman is commonly referred to as the father of

What American literary movement would the year 1889 be a part of?

Scholars appropriately link William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to this group

The whiteness of the white whale in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is commonly seen as a symbol of

Which of the following does NOT appear in apoem by Emily Dickinson?

Which of the following literary genres most noted as the precursor to horror fiction?

This author was a prolific lecturer. One of their famous lectures took place at Harvard, where he also went to college.

Which section is NOT included in Whitman's Leaves of Grass

A series of reflections on society and self, meant to provoke readers about their own existence and choices in life.

For whom does the speaker in the previous question morne?

Which of the following writers was particularlyimportant in the development of the short storyas a literary form?

This writer was an educator and also for the New York Tribune. On their way back from Italy, their boat sank from fire.

Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" is set before an after which period of U.S. History?

Hawthorne's short stories "The Maypole at Merrymount" and "Young Goodman Brown" chiefly explore which type of people?

All of the following are key points about Transcendentalism except one. Which is NOT a key point on Transcendentalism.

In the passage below, the images of thecemetery, prison, and rose-bush set the tone forwhich of the following works?

Which of these writers, born into afamily of New England ministers, achieved popular success with an abolitionist novel?

Which Herman Melville novel was published posthumously?

What poetic device is NOT commonly found in Emily Dickinson's poetry?

This city was the epicenter of American Transcendentalism

This opening stanza comes from what famous Whitman peom?

The poem, "Song of Myself," is part of what larger collection of poems?

Which title is NOT an example of a slave narrative?

the following are all synonyms of "heave." Which best applies to the context of this poem?

The preoccupation with self (and seeking divinity within) is predominantly inspired by which American movement?

The Scarlet Letter begins with an introduction by an anonymous narrator working whrere?

These works claim humans aren't that different from animals-they merely respond to natural forces without understanding

William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" concerns itself with

Imagination over reason, fascination with the wild and uncivilized, and sensibility all are tenets of

Which of the following did NOT write a slavenarrative?

Which of the following was founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edited by Margaret Fuller?

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s main philosophy was a fusion (or trio) of all of these but which one?

This was the school that Bronson Alcott founded and that Margaret Fuller was a teacher:

Who wrote:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "the Song of Hiawatha" is an epic poem that romanticizes WHAT group of people

Henry David Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience," was written as the result of what crime he was jailed for?