Major Romantics

Which of the following characteristics is true of transcendentalism?

What is the lists of the names of persons, places, or things?

The repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words or stressed syllables?

What do the walls symbolize in "Bartleby, the Scrivener"?

Who is often pessimistic about man's achievements and capabilities?

Hawthorne's best-known character, Captain Belshazzar of Moby Dick, hurls defiance at God

What biblical allusion emphasizes Thoreau's point about the evil of government in "Civil Disobedience"?

Where did Bartleby work before bing employed by the narrator?

Who was jailed briefly for refusing to pay the poll tax?

Which event did happen in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

What hints at events that will occur later in the story?

In "Self-Reliance" Emerson praises age as the model of self-reliance

Who does the captain symbolize in "O Captain! My Captain!"?

Thoreau lived with Emerson and his family during three different periods of time

What central metaphor does Emerson use in this chapter's excerpt from Nature to illustrate man relationship with nature?

What poetic term means the repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds in nearby words?

What is Georgiana's birthmark an appropriate symbol for what?

What is the obvious overstatement or exaggeration inteneded to make a point?

What does the ship symbolize in "O Captain! My Captain!"?

Who was praised as the "good gray poet" toward the end of his life?

In "The Minister's Black Veil" what does the crape symbolize?

Poe was known as the Father of Detective Fiction

Whose novels reaveal a searcher who offers only questions, not answers?

Who is a pivotal figure in American literature?

Which of the following emphases is present in Whiteman's work?

What is the situation in which the reader is aware of a plot development whereas a character in the story is not?

What is a form of poetry that uses lines irregular in length without fixed metrical patterns and usually without rhyme?

Who was the master of the macabre?

What is the emotional atmosphere of a work?

Whiteman actually proclaimed himself the National Poet of the United States

Why is the speaker in "The Raven" sorrowful?

Who expressed a viewpoint based on values sympathetic to those of Christianity?

What was the official publication of the transcendentalists?

What central recommendation is offered by Henry David Thoreau in Walden?