Emerson

Which set does NOT contain key words describing the SIX TENETS of Transcendentalism?

• Individuality and Confidence

• Nature and Spirituality

• Self-Reliance and Non-Conformity

• Predestination and Conventionality

What was "The Dial"?

• The Transcendental Bible

• A manner of meditation to help one connect with one's intuition

• The tool naturalists used to tell the time according to the sun

• A literary journal for Transcendentalist thought

Who co-founded "The Dial"?

• Emerson and Thoreau

• Thoreau and Fuller

• Emerson and Fuller

• Emerson and Ripley

A Transcendentalist might suggest that:

By contemplating ________,

the individual can _________

the world and discover their _________.

• transcendence, forget, intuition

• true freedom, embrace, destiny

• nature, transcend, divine truth

• god, escape, true nature

According to the SIX TENETS we reviewed, Transcendentalists believed that what was the highest form of the soul?

• human intuition

• human individuality

• natural experience

• simplification

Emerson and the Transcendentalists worked to define ________________ and ________________ in a new way.

• religion; spirituality

• industry; success

• work; power

• change; literature

Words related to "transcendental" include:

• transpose, ascendant, dental

• physical, tangible, concrete

• abstract, metaphysical, supernatural

• dark, horrific, tragic

Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism were part of what movement in American literary history?

• the American Renaissance

• American Puritanism

• the American Enlightenment

• American Realism

In “Self-Reliance,” Emerson indicates that genius is something that comes from

• within a person

• books

• experience

• God

A major theme of “Self-Reliance,” is

• all that glitters isn’t gold

• the meek shall inherit the earth

• to thine ownself be true

• nature is destiny