romanticism

What did the Romantics prefer?

• countryside
• industrial towns

What is typical of the Romanticism?

• Stress on individual thoughts and personal feelings
• Stress on universal thoughts and ideas

This era focused mostly on

• politics
• feelings
• religion
• education

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

The most important genre of literature to Romantics is

• sermons
• brochures
• poetry
• novels

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CCSS.RL.K.5

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

• imagination
• innocence
• reason
• intuition

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

Romanticism viewed civilization as ...

• Pure
• Artificial
• Unspoiled
• Perfect

Nature is viewed as a path to what type of development?

• Spiritual
• Professional
• Physical
• Evil

Which of the following is NOT is not one of the essential elements of satire?

• Making fun of an idea, person, or institution
• Use of irony
• Making a broader point about society, culture, politics, etc.
• All of the above are essential elements

A literary technique where that author has characters say or do things in a way that the reader knows is ironic, but the characters don’t

• Irony
• Dramatic Irony
• Satire
• Sarcasm

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What are "Fireside Poets"?

• poets who tended to have controversial beliefs expressed in their poetry, so they were seen as being on the "fireside" of things
• poets who enjoyed camping and spending time out in nature, so they wrote most of their poems by the light of a campfire 
• poets that wrote dark romantic poetry with conflicts between good and evil
• poets whose works were read by the fire as evening entertainment