American Romanticism

What does "romanticize" mean?

• act in a loving manner
• create a realistic image
• focus on the positive aspects
• change the meaning of something completely

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The Romantic movement led to a great deal of social reform, including abolition of child labor.

• True
• False

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Romanticism appealed to the American public because it offered a starkly realistic (black and white) view of life

• True
• False

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American Romantic authors and poets drew their inspiration from the unspoiled countryside.

• True
• False

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Which of the following is NOT a value of the Romantic Period?

• imagination
• innocence
• reason
• intuition

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The Romantic movement followed the Civil War.

• True
• False

William Cullen Bryant did not start writing poetry until he was quite old and near death.

• True
• False

Thanatopsis can be defined as . . .

• looking for death
• a way of looking at death
• speaking with the dead
• death is natural

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According to the poem "Thanatopsis," what happens to us when we die?

• We all go to heaven.
• Sinners go to hell.
• Nothing--we just disappear.
• We become part of the earth.

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One theme of "Thanatopsis" is that death is a natural part of life.

• True
• False

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