Romanticism Quiz 12 (60 MCQs)

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1. The American Romantic Hero is characterized by all of the following except:
2. What do we call the attempt to escape from American problems by focusing on something far away and non-normal?
3. What time period is approximately the time of the American Romantic Era?
4. Ages of Western Visual Art:Medieval
5. Picturing music is
6. Who is considered a founder of modern feminism and edited the transcendental club's literary journal?
7. With which statement would a Transcendentalist most likely agree?
8. The negative aspects of society, particularly man-made institutions, led to a desire to .....
9. Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual.
10. In "Because I could not stop for death, " death is personified as .....
11. In poetry, and specifically in "The Chambered Nautilus, " what is an apostrophe?
12. A Treatise on Domestic Economy charged women to
13. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic that Romantics celebrated?
14. This operatic terms describes a melodic gesture associated with a person, object, or idea.
15. What is the signature which the devil gives to Tom Walker?
16. Anti-Romantics believed that the human spirit possessed limitations and potential destructiveness.
17. Where does it stem from?
18. The composers of The Five had this nationality.
19. "Romantics believed that knowledge in gained through intuition" . Which characteristic is this?
20. What was the Second Great Awakening?
21. Parody is a serious imitation of another work or of a type of work; parody is considered plagiarism.
22. In "The Soul selects her own society" on page 425, Stanza 3, what is the impact of the phrase "like stone" ?
23. Tom Walker might best be described as
24. What is exemplary of idealism?
25. Plots often focus on mysterious happenings, tragic events, and hideous outcomes. Characters are often mad, half-mad, or frightened to death. Settings are dark and often contain decayed dwellings with shadowy passageways, haunting sounds, and damp rooms. This would be seen in what type of work?
26. Who wrote Nature & Self-Reliance?
27. What is Industrialism?
28. Romantics and Transcendentalists were advocates for all of the following EXCEPT:
29. Believed that people are inherently good.
30. What is the difference between Romantic and romantic?
31. Which of the following is NOT a Romantic author?
32. "The Fall of the House of Usher":Following her death and shortly before entombment, we find out that Roderick and Madeline were actually
33. What do the red windows in the last chamber symbolize in "The Masque of the Red Death" ?
34. The most important genre of literature to Romantics is
35. Why does the narrator of The Black Cat say "perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart" ?
36. Which artist was an English landcape artist known for using brushstrokes to capture the power of nature?
37. Expert performer admired by the audience.
38. What are the dates of the first part of the American Romanticism movement that we've studied thus far?
39. What happened before the Romantic Era?
40. Beethoven prioritized form and structure rather than emotion.
41. Romantics celebrated the beauty, power, and wonder of the natural world.
42. T/F-the tone of "Ozymandias" is ironic.
43. Likelihood, believability
44. The main types of ballroom dance were waltz, polka, bolero, courante, mazurca, giga and minuet.
45. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is one of Wordsworth's most famous poems. It was inspired by an event
46. What is the theme of "The Devil and Tom Walker" ?
47. What is the core idea of Transcendentalism?
48. What is a literature piece written by Emily Dickinson?
49. All of the following are characteristics of Romanticism EXCEPT?
50. Transcendentalism is the belief that .....
51. Which of the following is NOT true of Edgar Allan Poe?
52. Lying down with the head facing down
53. In "The World Is Too Much With Us, " what does the speaker wish to be?
54. What elements of transcendentalism are here? I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the schools, and the schoolmaster's fans; For what are they all with their pride and conceit, When man with God in the brush may meet
55. What is a nonviolent/peaceful protest often called?
56. Romantics responded specifically to which of the following aspects of the Industrial Revolution?
57. Understanding something without any prior knowledge:
58. Who painted the famous artwork 'The Raft of the Medusa'?
59. Which of these statements best reflects Henry David Thoreau's philosophical assumption as expressed in Walden?
60. What was the sub-category of the Romantic period. Also called the "Dark Romantics"