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What are the 5 I’s of Romanticism?

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  1. Intuition
  2. Imagination
  3. Innocence
  4. Inspiration from nature
  5. Inner experience
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Romanticism consisted of tales of

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Moving from city to the country

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2
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The ________ took a turn toward the physiological exploration of the human mind

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American Gothics

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3
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The most famous American gothic

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Was one of the most famous romantic writers

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James Fenimore cooper

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Who wrote books about westward expansion? Who was the hero?

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James Fenimore cooper

Natty Bumppo

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6
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Is considered the first true American poet

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Natty Bumppo

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The American hero is….

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Young innocent and pure, has a sense of honor based not only on societies rules but on a higher principal, has a knowledge of people and life based on date, intuitive, understanding, loves nature and avoids town, and quests for higher truth in the natural world

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Fireside poets had

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American settings

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Fireside poems/ families

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Families would read the poems aloud by the fire

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He wrote several short stories that hold popularity, _________ and __________.

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The legend of sleepy hollow and rip can winkle

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11
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Was The first American to reach international literary celebrity status

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Washington Irving

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In “The Devil and Tom Walker” Irving uses ______ to show how hypocritical the Puritans of this era had become

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Satire

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13
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Greedy

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Avarice

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14
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Washington Irving used ______ in his work

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Stock characters

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Stock are characters who represent

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One human emotion or characteristics

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16
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Tom’s wife is a stock character for

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Greed

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Body of stories, legends, myths, ballads, songs, riddles, sayings, and other words arising out of the old traditions of people around the globe

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Folklore

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The main character of _________ refuses to be a _________.

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Devil and Tom Walker

Slave trader

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The red death, it is based on a rare form of the black plague called ________ plague, which attacked the bloodstream

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Septicemic

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The author writes without the intent to make things symbolic, but the reader can draw symbols from the story

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Indented symbolism

21
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allegory is a story with _____ meanings, a ______ meanings! and a ________ meaning

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Two
Literal
Symbolic

22
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Prince Prospero represents ______,______, and ______.

On a deeper level he represents _______.

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Wealth, prosperity, and the aristocrats

Mans futile attempt to escape death

23
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The rooms in MORD represent \_\_\_\_\_\_.
Blue - 
Purple - 
Green - 
Orange -  
White -
Violet - 
Red/Black -
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Birth 
Transition to royalty 
Youth 
Strength and maturity 
Purity 
Last stage 
Death
24
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Name one aspect of theory two and the seven deadly sins

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Anger - Prince Prospero becomes angry with the uninvited guests and attacks it

25
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The clock represents the ______, minute by minute

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Ticking away of life

26
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The guest at the party was dressed as the

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Red Death

27
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The devil is called

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Old scratch in the devil and Tom Walker

28
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Tom Walker finds a _____ tied in an apron

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Heart and liver

29
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In ______ a man sleeps for 20 years

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Rip Van winkle

30
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In _____ I character plays nine pins with little man in the mountains

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Rip Van Winkle

31
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The poem begins at midnight in December

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The Raven

32
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Name four examples of light in the Raven

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Lenore - radiant beauty
White bust of Pallas
Lamplight
Angels

33
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Give three examples of darkness in the Raven

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The Raven
December at midnight
The birds shadow

34
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The narrator slowly loses his ability to fight against the

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Darkness

35
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The end of this poem is a vision of the psychological effects of complete

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Emotional, spiritual paralysis and despair

36
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3 main characters in fall of the house of usher

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Madeline usher
Roderick usher
The narrator

37
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_______ is symbolic as the embodiment of an individual

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Usher house

38
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What does Madeline usher symbolize?

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A family secret and a dark urge

39
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These gothic tales often used ancient settings like _____,_______,______ that has been privy of sinister or supernatural events

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Castles, dungeons, of cathedrals

40
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His other did when he was 13

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Poe

41
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He married his 13 year old cousin, ________ who later died of _______.

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Virginia and tuberculosis

42
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Poe was a…..

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Critic
Poet
Writer

43
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He believed that every character, detail and incident in the story should contribute to the overall feel of the story

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Poe; the single effect

44
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______ are often employed by Poe

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Sound devices

45
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The repetition of beginning consonant sounds

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Alliteration

46
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The repition of consonant sounds

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Consonance

47
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The repetition of vowel sounds in the words

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Assonance

48
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The main character of ________ refuses to be _______

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The devil and Tom Walker

Slave trader

49
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The narrator finds the bird to be a ________ that has come to take him away

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Denomic force

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