1) American Romanticism

Question 1

Duration of American Romanticism

Answer 1

cca 1830s to 1865 (end of the Civil War)

Question 2

Characteristics of American Romanticism

Answer 2

focus on the individual, emotion over logic, celebration of nature, emphasis on imagination and creativity

Question 3

Washington Irving

Answer 3

Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Question 4

Rip Van Winkle

Answer 4

Washington Irving

Question 5

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Answer 5

Washington Irving

Question 6

Which author wrote the genre of historical romance and has his novels set in America’s frontier in the 18th century?

Answer 6

James Fenimore Cooper

Question 7

Leatherstocking Tales

Answer 7

James Fenimore Cooper

Question 8

What are the names of the stories in Leatherstocking Tales?

Answer 8

The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer

Question 9

What is the name of the character which connects Leatherstocking Tales?

Answer 9

Natty Bumpoo

Question 10

Who was the first American folk hero?

Answer 10

Natty Bumpoo

Question 11

Who was Catherine Maria Sedgewick?

Answer 11

a novelist

Question 12

Catherine Maria Sedgewick

Answer 12

Hope Leslie

Question 13

Hope Leslie

Answer 13

Catherine Maria Sedgewick

Question 14

Which genre is Hope Leslie?

Answer 14

historical romance

Question 15

What is the setting of Hope Leslie?

Answer 15

early colonial times, Puritans and Indians, strong female heroins, interracial relationships

Question 16

Who was Lydia Huntley Sigourney?

Answer 16

a very popular poet, wrote educative books for young ladies, criticised slavery and the destruction of wilderness

Question 17

Lydia Huntley Sigourney

Answer 17

Fallen Forest, Indian Names, To the First Slave Ship

Question 18

Into which genre does Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) belong?

Answer 18

dark romanticism

Question 19

E. A. Poe is seen as a predecessor to which subgenre in the 20th century?

Answer 19

Southern Gothic

Question 20

Name some authors who belong to the Southern Gothic subgenre

Answer 20

Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O’Connor, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner

Question 21

Features of Poe’s fiction

Answer 21

themes of horror, tragedy, the supernatural, insanity vs rationality, obsession, irony, unreliable narrators

Question 22

Which of Poe’s works was published in magazines?

Answer 22

Short Stories

Question 23

Which book was Poe’s first publication?

Answer 23

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Question 24

Which Poe’s short story was the most popular one in his lifetime?

Answer 24

The Gold Bug

Question 25

Name some of E. A. Poe’s (1809-1849) works

Answer 25

The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Gold Bug, Short Stories, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Berenice, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle etc.

Question 26

E. A. Poe is father of which genre?

Answer 26

the detective story genre

Question 27

Name Poe’s three most famous detective stories

Answer 27

Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Roget, The Purloined Letter

Question 28

What is the name of the Poe’s detective?

Answer 28

C. Auguste Dupin

Question 29

What is Poe’s poetry like?

Answer 29

formally perfect poems, mathematically precise rhytmic patterns, regular rythm pattern; The Raven, Anabel Lee

Question 30

Which of Poe’s work was published posthumously?

Answer 30

The Poetic Principle

Question 31

In The Tell - Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher, the narrator is __________

Answer 31

unnamed

Question 32

What are the names of the two siblings in The Fall of the House of Usher?

Answer 32

Roderick and Madeline Usher

Question 33

What are some of the themes of The Fall of the House of Usher?

Answer 33

themes of madness, decay, the supernatural, sensation of claustrophobia, confusion between the living things and inanimate objects

Question 34

What is the setting in The Fall of the House of Usher?

Answer 34

we cannot say for sure where in the world or exactly when the story takes place

Question 35

Themes of The Black Cat

Answer 35

themes of guilt, madness, the consequences of one’s actions, unreliable narrator

Question 36

What is the symbolism behind the black cat?

Answer 36

the black cat serves as a symbol of the narrator’s guilt