Chapter 5 Study Guide Quiz

during the time of American romanticism, American literature matured and the US won literary independence from England

group of romantic writers - known as New England School, focused on development of novels + short stories

Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem "The Chambered Nautilus" uses conciets.

a striking comparison carried out in detail

Rip Van Winkle is a round and unsympathetic character, while his wife is a flat and sympathetic character.

what significant career did Oliver Wendall Holmes have in addition to his writing

To what was John Greenleaf Whittier reacting in this poem, "Ichabod"

what imagery does "a Psalm of Life" use to show we leave a legacy behind us when we die?

What word refers to the romantic view of a perfect world based on either past innocence of future self-realization

according to the romantics, God

James Fenimore Cooper's perspective on the American past is primarily sentimental and escapist.

What type of satire is used in "A Fable for Critics"?

a speakers address to an absent person, an abstraction, an inanimate object, or a nonhuman entity

the romantics believed that the way to improve man was to

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow did all of the following except

a pause in the middle of the line

What Quaker concept emphasized that all men possess within them the presence of God to Guide them?

Satire that is genial and generally lighthearted

The Quakers refer to Monday as the "First-Day "

Washington Irving was known for all of the following except

"A Fable of Critics":who does James Lowell say isn't the American Scott but is someone who creates "wooden+empty" traits

a complex character, decried with details that distinguish him as a particular individual

a person, place, thing, or idea within a narrative or poem that means something in addition to itself

corrective ridicule in literature

deerslayer says "meet fairly in battle." What is the Indians original reaction

What short coming of his own does James Russel Lowell mock in "A Fable of Critics"?

Name one of two main elements Edgar Allen Poe contributed to the short story

The keyword that least describes an idea favored by the romantics is

The major romantic writers

A character with little individuality and whose mindset the reader knows little about

descriptive words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions to create an impression

a poem in which 14 lines are written in iambic pentameter

Washington Irving set himself apart by writing for the clear purpose of

what two aspects of the sense of distance were employed by romantic writers?

the manner of speech characteristic of a given area or class

after shooting the indian, deerslayer talks to him about each of the following topics except

What event brought more attacks on the Bible than any other source?

The new literary spirit of romanticism dominated American literature during what years?

William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" is a meditation of life

Which author was the foremost voice in the literary war against slavery?

The Second Great Awakening in America was driven by college revivals and camp meetings

through the narrator's description of the indian dying, James Cooper stresses each of these EXCEPT

Each of the following ideas is central to Unitarianism except

a genre of prose fiction popularized by Sir Walter Scott; provides and idealized, imaginative view of life

Identify one of the biblical allusions in "First-Day Thoughts"

What kind of poem is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's lyric poem "Mezzo Cammin"?

William Cullen Bryant's "To A Waterfowl" can be called an apostrophe.

Biblical thinkin pervaded literature of the Puritans, but by 1776, secularism worked its way into the national spirit

what attitude toward death is specifically recommended in the conclusion of "Thanatopsis"

What poem was an inspired byproduct of the dismantling of the USS Constitution?

Individualism and nature are two cornerstones of American romanticism

"The Courtin" is narrated with a first person point of view

What is the Hebrew word for "no glory" or "inglorious"

What is "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high" an example of?

in "Rip Van Winkle" what is Rip's primary fault

Name the four cornerstones of American romanticism

reference to people, places, events, or passages from the Bibe

Which type of satire is known for being especially biting, savage and more serious in intent?

William Cullen Bryant's poetry is

A brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker on a particular topic

a character with whom the reader identifies or of whom he has favorable feelings