Question

1. During what years did the American Romanticism period last? How many years was this movement started after the American Revolution?

2. The rapid expansion and growth at this time fueled _________, ____________, and _________ in American literature.
3. In 1830, American citizens were anxious to ___________________ which was uniquely American and not reliant on ___________ ___________.
4. Identify the 5 characteristics of American Romantic Literature:
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5. Describe one positive and one negative aspect of America’s Industrial Revolution. Briefly explain how these positives and negatives aspects relate to the Romanticism characteristic of Imagination and Escapism?

6. What do the characters in Romantic literature do to demonstrate Escapism?

7. Who is considered the father of American literature, and what famous story did he write?

8. Individuality, the second characteristic of American Romanticism, was established through movement across the frontier, and this also began ____________, which prompted what is now known as The Melting Pot.

9. What is the 3rd characteristic of American Romanticism ?

10. Identify what American Romantics believed they could achieve by going into nature.

11. How did Washington Irving demonstrate the 4th American Romanticism characteristic in his writing?

12. What made the American Romantic poets different from the American Romantic novelists and short story writers?

13 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russel Lowell were known as _________ _________.

14. The European hero was established a sophisticated and educated. Identify America’s hero during the Revolutionary period who fits that description?
15. Name the first American Hero in a piece of literature.
16. List 4-6 characteristics that make him a true American Romantic hero.

17. The video mentioned 2 modern day American heroes from film. Who are they?

18. What frustrated Irving’s parents about his personality as a young man?
19. To what city and state was Irving sent by his parents at the age of 15?

20. Identify the name of the mountain range that Irving was inspired by and used to create the setting for his famous folktale, Rip Van Winkle.

21. What writing advice did European writer, Sir Walter Scott, give to Irving?

22. This personality trait in Irving transcended into his writing.

23. A technique used by Irving to get around using a tired old narrator to tell his stories was:

24. Name of Irving’s narrator in A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.

25. Define satire:

Answer 1

1) 1830-1870, 15 years after the American Revolution

2) Intuition, Imagination, and Individualism

3) Create their own identity, European values

4) Imagination and Escapism, Individuality, Nature as a source of spirituality, Looking at the past for wisdom, Seeing the common man as a hero

5) The positive is with progress comes optimism and as progress continues, the people start to imagine what comes next. The negative is that as progress continues, more people migrate to big cities and it becomes over populated, the cities became dirty, and disease ridden.

6) Journeying away from the city and into the countryside

7) Washington Irving wrote Rip Van Winkle

8) Immigration

9) Nature as a source of spirituality

10) They could achieve high levels of insight and information about the world around them

11) Used old legends in new stories

12) The novelists and short story writers tried to distance themselves from European tradition. The poets stuck to that tradition, their form is the same, their techniques are the same, however, their content and that they are looking at the pure nature America has to offer and are using that for inspiration

13) Fireside Poets

14) Ben Franklin

15) Natty Bumppo

16) Solid moral code, Intuition about people, Loves nature, Questing for a higher truth

17) Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones

18) Goofy and adventurous

19) Tarrytown, New York

20) Catskill Mountain

21) Begin reading the German Romantic authors and to consider folklore and legends for some inspiration

22) Sense of humor

23) Pseudonyms

24) Diedrich Knickerbocker

25) A piece of writing that uses irony and sarcasm to show flaws in something