DARK ROMANTIC; TRANSCENDENTALISM.

Question 1

When was the American Romantic Period?

Answer 1

1800-1860

Question 2

When was the American Renaissance?

Answer 2

1840-1860

Question 3

Which two categories do belong to writers during the period of the American Renaissance?

Answer 3

The Dark Romantics and Transcendentalists.

Question 4

Which three authors do belong to the era of the American Dark Romance?

Answer 4

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville.

Question 5

Named the three main features of the American Dark romance.

Answer 5

The creepy symbols, horrific themes, and the psychological effect of guilt and sin.

Question 6

What was the most famous symbol of death and hopelessness?

Answer 6

The Raven.

Question 7

What themes were used by the dark romantic writers?

Answer 7

The horrific themes, the struggle of human nature, the idea that our surroundings can be filled with devils.
The focus of the psychological effects of sin and guilt.

Question 8

Who was the inventor of detective fiction in America?

Answer 8

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 9

Which are the most famous short stories written by Poe?

Answer 9

The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Fall of the House of Usher,

Question 10

Which are the most famous poems written by Poe?

Answer 10

Raven, Annabel Lee,

Question 11

Name the essay written by Edgar Poe.

Answer 11

The Philosophy of Composition.

Question 12

What is unique for the style of Poe

Answer 12

He used diction with connotations, emotional meanings.

This diction is leading to horrific imagery.

Question 13

to inflict vengeance

Answer 13

to exact the revenge

Question 14

In which Poe’s short story was used a lot of ironies?

Answer 14

The Cask of Amon-til-lado.

Question 15

Named two main characters in The Cask of Amontillado.

Answer 15

Fortunato and Montresor.

Question 16

What are the themes?

Answer 16

Main lessons, main ideas.

Question 17

How is Montresor characterized in The Cask of Amontillado?

Answer 17

As the devil and sinister.

Question 18

What word refers to a gruesome focus on the horrifying and disturbing elements of injury as well as death?

Answer 18

macabre

Question 19

Which Poe’s short story is one of the best written?

Answer 19

The Fall of The House of Ushers.

Question 20

What is the main goal of The Fall of The House of Ushers?

Answer 20

The goal is to create fear.

Question 21

Name 5 themes in The Fall of The House of Ushers.

Answer 21

The fear, the mental illness, the incest, the family identity, the mortality.

Question 22

Poe’s diction, choice of words, fuel the images that he conjures to create such macabre stories.

Answer 22

make appear, conjure

Question 23

What is specific for Poe’s work contrary to the rest of writers in The Dark Romantic period?

Answer 23

Gothic fiction, old buildings, diction, macabre.

Question 24

Name a macabre piece about premature death, burial, and sorrow written by Poe.

Answer 24

The Fall of The House of The Ushers.

Question 25

In which work did Poe explain his writing process and language usage?

Answer 25

The Philosophy of Composition.

Question 26

Name the poetic devices used in The Raven.

Answer 26

repetition, symbolism, meter, rhyme, internal rhyme, superstitious character, alliteration - repetitions of the consonant sounds.
Trochaic octamer, unity of effect.

Question 27

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian life and Omoo

Answer 27

Herman Melville. Love the cannibal tribal girl.

Question 28

Who did try to discover the metaphysical nature of the world and humans?

Answer 28

Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

Question 29

Name Melville’s works.

Answer 29

The Bartleby, Scrivener: A Story of the Wallstreet.

Billy Budd Sailor.

Question 30

Name characters in Moby Dick.

Answer 30

Ishmael, Captain Ahab, Queequeg, Fedallah

Question 31

Through the use of symbols and allegory, it shows that vengeance can erode one’s sanity.

Answer 31

Moby Dick.

Question 32

Who did specialize in his work about guilt and sin, and was influenced by Puritan’s ancestry?

Answer 32

Nataniel Hawthorn

Question 33

Who did use allegory in order to show the hypocrisy, corruption, and sin

Answer 33

Nataniel Hawthorn. Obsession with the Puritans.

Question 34

Name the works of Nathaniel Hawthorn.

Answer 34

The Blit–hedale Romance. He lived in the utopian community Brook Farm. The Scarlet Letter. The House of Seven Gables.

Question 35

Name the main characters in The Scarlet Letter.

Answer 35

Hester Prynne, Pearl, Roger Chilling–worth, Arthur Dimmes–dale.