American Romanticism

What years are associated with American Romanticism?

• 1600-1680

• 1720-1800

• 1800-1860

• 1920-1980

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Romantics value ____________ over reason

• Ambition

• Education

• Intuition

• Society

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Romantics were inspired by supernatural tales and myths

• true

• false

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Romantics believed that nature = corruption

• true

• false

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Romantics believed that youthful _________ is better than educated sophistication

• beauty

• innocence

• ignorance

• energy

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What are the two major categories of American Romanticism?

• Gothic Romantic & Religiousness

• Realism & Transcendentalism

• Gothic Romantic & Transcendentalism

• Realism & Regionalism

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Who wrote Nature & Self-Reliance?

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Arthur Miller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions corrupt the purity of the human soul

• True

• False

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Transcendentalists had faith in organized religion and political parties

• True

• False

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What author is know for writing Gothic Romantic works such as the Fall of the House of Usher and The Raven

• Walt Whitman

• Harper Lee

• Herman Melville

• Edgar Allan Poe

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