AP Lang Transcendentalism Romanticism

Who is considered the "father" of Transcendentalism?

• Henry David Thoreau

• Margaret Fuller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Robin Williams

What is the transcendentalist belief about nature?

• nature is "just there"

• nature is awe-inspiring and reflects spirituality

• nature is unstable and changes too much

• nature is the origin of evil

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Transcendentalism encourages:

• following the rules

• being like everyone else

• joining the majority opinion

• not conforming to what others do and say

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The Transcendentalists believed in self-reliance and free thought.

• True

• False

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According to the Transcendentalists, the way to discover spirituality is:

• by looking inwards & connecting to nature to discover self

• by listening to what your parents & following the rules

• by going to church every Wednesday & Sunday

• by listening to music & reading poetry by listening to music & reading poetry

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Transcendentalists believed in:

• the Power of the Government

• the Power of Technology

• the Power of the Individual

• the Power of God

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Who is NOT a Dark Romantic?

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Henry David Thoreau

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Herman Melville

Who wrote Moby Dick?

• Herman Melville

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Washington Irving

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'.

• True

• False

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Which elements of dark romanticism do you find?
...thinking what this ominous bird of yore—
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore, ...

• individuals prone to sin
• pessimism about world and afterworld
• nature is decaying
• settings are dark, melancholy, horror-filled

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