Romanticism

true/false: Romanticism mostly focuses on sappy, love stories

• True

• False

American Romanticism valued

• feelings over reason

• logic over intuition

• scaring people

• logic over emotions

Subject matters Romanticists focused on were (more than one!)

• political matters

• scientific advancements

• imagination

• emotions

Edgar Allan Poe was

• Realist

• Transcendentalist

• Dark Romantic

• Light Romantic

Most of the women in Poe's life _______

• lived a long life

• died of natural causes

• died of tuberculosis

• were immoral.

Which of the following is NOT an example of Dark Romanticism?

• Nature is dark and mysterious.

• People are sinful.

• Supernatural elements.

• Positive about human potential.

The Tell-Tale Heart

What was the reason the narrator killed the old man?

• he wanted the old man's money

• he has an aversion to the old man's eye

• he wants to put the old man out of misery

• he wants the house to himself

The Tell-Tale Heart

Identify the literary device, "until, at length, a single dim ray, like the thread of a spider, shot from out the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye"

• personification

• imagery

• metaphor

• simile

The Tell-Tale Heart

What point of view is the story told from?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 3 person omniscient

The Tell-Tale Heart

What happened at the end of the story?

• The narrator confesses to the police what he has done.

• The narrator hears the pounding of the old man’s heart beneath the floor.

• The narrator spies on the old man in his sleep.

• The narrator murders the old man in the night.