NEW
Font size
WorksheetsAmerican Romanticism Introduction
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
What years are associated with American Romanticism?
1600-1680
1720-1800
1800-1855/60
1920-1980
Romantics value ____________ over reason
Ambition
Education
Intuition
Society
Romantics believed that nature = corruption
true
false
Romantics believed that youthful _________ is better than educated sophistication
beauty
innocence
ignorance
energy
What did the Romantics value more?
City Life
Life in Nature
Two sub-genres of Romanticism are
guilt and sin
good and evil
dark romanticism and transcendentalism
sin and psychology
Where did American Romantics believe that you could find God?
Nature
Church
Inside yourself
In books
American Romanticism refers to romantic love.
True
False
What is the literary period that followed the Age of Reason in America?
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Gothic
Realism
What is the characteristic of American Romanticism that prefers unspoiled nature?
Faith in inner experiences
Value of feeling and intuition
Championing individual freedom
Shunning artificiality of civilization
What are the main ideas of Romanticism?
Imagination, nature, innocence, and individualism
Nature, people, religion, and heaven
Synthesis, evaluation, and connection
Conforming to the idea's of society
What was happening in America during the Romantic Time Period?
Civil War
WW1
WW2
Industrialization
The Romantic period is called such because all the literature in this time period is
based on love triangles and characters' relationships with each other
based on idealism or a sense of how things should be
based on candlelight dinners and kind words
The negative aspects of society, particularly man-made institutions, led to a desire to ...
move to the city
travel abroad
move to the country
The belief that feelings and intuition are superior to logic and reasons relates to...
romantic sensibility
journey
escape
Romantics sought truth and tranquility in...
God
nature
family
An American hero is defined as...
selfish and lazy
good-hearted but flawed
irresponsible
To a romantic, power belongs to...
nature
man
reason
Romantics viewed the _____ as a place of moral ambiguity, corruption, and even death.
city
country
west
Austin's Romantic Period soulmate is...
Bjork
Becky Chambers
Walt Whitman
Anis Mojgani
