Romanticism+Study+Guide


 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow **

1. What did you read by him?

2. What was the theme of his writing?

3. How did he feel about following the crowd?

4. Which Transcendentalist ideas are evident in his writing? ** Ralph Waldo Emerson ** 1. What did you read by him?

2. What was the main idea of that writing?

3. What does he say it takes to be a man?

4. Where does he say that we can find truth?

5. What are the two things that he says stop us from being self-reliant? 1)

2)

6. What does he say that self-trust and individuality lead to?

7. Does he believe that people should follow their dream?

8. What does he say about a drummer?

9. He says that we can reach truth through intuition and _.

10. How does he feel about tradition?

11. He believes that society encourages conformity. Does he approve of that?

12. Which Transcendentalist ideas are evident in his writing?

** Henry David Thoreau  **

1. What did you read by him? 1) 2)  2. In the reading that was an ** autobiographical ** piece, was does he say about simplicity? 3. In the same piece, how does he feel about nature? 4. Does he feel that we all have a divinity within us? 5. He says that truth can be reached by ___________ and nature. 6. According to Thoreau, people who pursue their dreams meet with unexpected ____________. 7. He was inspired by the Mexican War to write his ** essay. **How did he feel about the war? 8. According to his essay, what government is best? 9. What does he say about “heroes, patriots, martyrs, and reformers”? Does he seem to respect them? How does society feel about them? 10. What question does he put forth about unjust laws at the top of page 373? 11. What does he say about the power that ** one honest man ** could have relevant to the issue of slavery? 12. Which Transcendentalism ideas are expressed in his works?

** Gothic Section Review **

** I. Literature Terms **

alliteration mood character archetype speaker end rhyme style imagery theme meter tone

**II.** **The historical background of Gothic literature**.

Review of the Historical Background

Gothic writers were part of the _ movement in literature. The first gothic writers were from _in the century. These writers reacted to the harshness of Puritanism and the logic of the Enlightenment, or the Age of, and wrote stories full of emotion and imagination. In them, they explored the dark side, or potential _ __of the individual. They were inspired by__ _ from the Middle Ages, like gargoyles and old castles and often included them in their stories’ settings. Two very popular literary characters from that period who are still having an effect on our entertainment today are _ __and__. The most famous American gothic writer is _ __stories. Although he included gothic elements in his writing, he also had his own style. For example, often his narrators were__ _. In many of his stories, characters were __alive or in claustrophobic situations. The irony of the horror in his stories is that he was really a very__ _ person. This shows in his use of heightened _ in much of his writing. American Gothic writing ended with the _ ___. The horror and reality of this terrible, tragic event caused the beginning of the next literary movement, which is Realism.

** III. Know the elements of Dark Romanticism (Gothic) literature and be able to identify them in the stories and poems. **

** IV. Know how to identify the meter and rhyme scheme in a poem **
 * iambic, trochaic
 * octameter
 * rhyme scheme

**V**. **Edgar Allan Poe** Know important facts about Poe
 * What genre of writing he began
 * What his stories were about
 * What kind of a person he was
 * The elements of his playbook and how he used them in his poems and stories.

Know key points about “The Raven” · What the raven represents · Where does the narrator think he’s from by the end of the poem · Important words and phrases in the poem · Gothic and Poe’s playbook elements

Know key points about “Annabel Lee” · How and why she died · Important words and phrases · Gothic and Poe’s playbook elements

In Poe’s two short stories, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” know
 * the main ideas and characters, any symbolism, how they end
 * Elements of Poe’s playbook and Gothic elements

Know key points about “Fall of the House of Usher” · How and why she died · Important words and phrases · Gothic and Poe’s playbook elements

** VI. Nathaniel Hawthorne **
 * Elements of his Playbook

“The Minister’s Black Veil”
 * Know the dominant theme
 * The symbolism of the veil
 * The main characters
 * The irony of the minister not removing the veil
 * Gothic elements of the story
 * Hawthorne’s Playbook elements

“The Birthmark”
 * Gothic elements
 * Hawthorne’s playbook elements
 * The theme