The Romantics believed that people could improve their world-view by

• focusing on the problems and working for a solution.

• focusing on meditation and yoga.

• focusing on beauty, emotion and imagination as a means of escape.

• focusing on getting the right people elected to start a revolution.

Realists hoped to create a change in society by

• exposing the realities of the working class and poor in order to create empathy for that group.

• studying nature in the hopes of protecting the wilderness and a more rural lifestyle.

• showing the reading public that the poor were lazy and inferior.

When did the Romantic literary movement appear?

• In the late 18th century.

• In the late 17th century.

• In the late 19th century.

• In the late 16th century.

Realism began in or around the year

• 1855.

• 1848.

• 1875.

• 1895.

One downside to the Industrial Revolution was

• England lost their 13 colonies.

• the people had no say in the government.

• children died in the new factories.

• rebels stormed the Bastille prison.

Most writers during the Romantic time period

• abandoned wit and satire and focused on emotions and nature.

• abandoned nature and emotions and focused on wit and satire.

• died of starvation.

• didn't write anything due to fear of government.

Gothic literature

• explores the human capacity for evil.

• has an attitude toward nature, humanity and society emphasizing freedom.

• is a philosophy which holds that truth can be found through intuition better than reason.

• focused on freedom of the individual.

Romanticism

• emphasizes violence.

• emphasizes nature, humanity and freedom and individuality.

• is a philosophy that says truth is reached through intuition over reason.

• emphasized showing events and social conditions as they really were, with no idealization.

What is typical of the Romanticism?

• Stress on individual thoughts and personal feelings.

• Stress showing universal thoughts and ideas.

• Stress showing life as it really is.

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

• imagination
• innocence
• reason
• intuition