Romanticism/Realism

Author's dates of lifetime: 1835-1910

(Think Halley's Comet...)

• Mark Twain

• Ambrose Bierce

• Walt Whitman

• Emily Dickinson

Known for writing in free verse

• Mark Twain

• Emily Dickinson

• Ambrose Bierce

• Walt Whitman

Published Leaves of Grass

• Whitman

• Dickinson

• Bierce

• Twain

Which literary device is displayed here: "Why blame my cats..."

• alliteration

• simile

• paradox

• idiom

Which literary device is displayed here: "My Tippet---only Tulle---"

• elliptical phrasing

• hyperbole

• paradox

• idiom

Which literary device is displayed here: "yawp"

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• elliptical phrasing

• paradox

The American Romantic literary movement occurred from about 1820 to the year, ___________.

Romantics "placed their faith in inner experience and the power of the ___________________.

• accomplishments

• imagination

• community

• family

In "Because I Could Not Stop For Death," death is personified as a

• lawyer

• carriage driver

• politician

• neighbor

In "Because I Could Not Stop For Death," the line "We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain" refers to the end of life.

• True

• False