Literary Movements

Question 1

classicism

Answer 1

arts focuses on the importance of reason, balance, clearness like the arts of Greeks.

Question 2

amatory fiction

Answer 2

romantic fiction written in the 17th and 18th centuries

Question 3

cavalier poets

Answer 3

English Royalist poets (17th), writing about courtly love

Question 4

augustans

Answer 4

classical ideals, satire and skepticism (18th)

Question 5

romanticism

Answer 5

emphasize emotions, imagination rather than logic and science (19th) . response to the Enlightenment

Question 6

gothic novel

Answer 6

romantic ideals combined with supernatural and violence

Question 7

Lake Poets

Answer 7

romantic poets from Lake District who wrote about nature and the sublime

Question 8

sublime

Answer 8

appreciation of the fearful and irregular forms of Nature

Question 9

transcendentalism

Answer 9

poetry and philosophy concerned with self-reliance (individualism) (19th American)

Question 10

dark romanticism

Answer 10

reaction to transcendentalism. Man are sinful, self destructive and nature is dark and a mysterious force. (19th)

Question 11

realism

Answer 11

late 19th. Simplification of style

Question 12

symbolism

Answer 12

thought rather than poetic form or image, late 19th