American Romanticism/Transcendentalism

Romanticism is the name for the literary period that followed ___.

• Transcendentalism

• The Age of Reason

• Puritanism

Which literary movement means “moving beyond” what we perceive with our five senses to get a spiritual truth

• Romanticism

• Gothic

• Transcendentalism

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All of the following are characteristics of Romanticism except

• intuition

• The desire to become one with another.

• emotion

• imagination

Escapism and interest in external nature are examples of which literary movement?

• transcendentalism

• romanticism

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In Romanticism, nature is all of the following except___.

• a place to hide

• a way to understand God

• source for the knowledge of the things that came before

• a religious movement

All of the following are Romantic Writers except ___.

• William Cullen Bryan

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Which is not a characteristic of Transcendentalism?

• Importance of Nature

• Confidence

• Conformity

• Free Thought

True or False?

In Romanticism, people felt that there must be more to life than logical, rational experience.

• True

• False

Transcendentalists and Romantics both believe in the power of the imagination.

• True

• False

True or False?

Romanticism and Transcendentalism both contain characteristics that include: nature, imagination, and intuition.

• True

• False