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Directions: Use Your Notes and Textbook To Find The Answers To The Following Questions

The document contains questions about key events, dates, philosophies, and authors from the period of American Romanticism in literature. It asks the student to identify the historical events that led to the Romantic period in America, the war that ended the period, the dates it spanned, perspectives on cities, life in cities in the 1800s, the definition of Romantic thinking, what philosophy Romanticism reacted against, the term 'Fireside Poets', the author who invented Gothic literature, and an author from the period.

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Directions: Use Your Notes and Textbook To Find The Answers To The Following Questions

The document contains questions about key events, dates, philosophies, and authors from the period of American Romanticism in literature. It asks the student to identify the historical events that led to the Romantic period in America, the war that ended the period, the dates it spanned, perspectives on cities, life in cities in the 1800s, the definition of Romantic thinking, what philosophy Romanticism reacted against, the term 'Fireside Poets', the author who invented Gothic literature, and an author from the period.

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American Romanticism Quiz

Directions: Use your notes and textbook to find the answers to the following
questions.
1. After what historical events in America did the Age of Romanticism begin?

2. What major war ended the Romantic period of literature in America?

3. What are the dates of the Romantic period in American literature?


4. What was the rationalist perspective on moving to the city?

5. What was life like for those who lived in major American cities in the early 1800’s?

6. Define “Romantic thinking”

7. Romanticism was a rebelling or reaction to what philosophy or movement?


8. What is meant by the term “Fireside Poets”

9. Who gave readers the opportunity to escape into their imaginations through his
invention of Gothic literature in the form of short stories?
10. Name an author who wrote a novel during the American Romantic period of literature.

11. – 12. On the back of this quiz write a paragraph with correct sentence structure that
contrasts the Romantic and Rationalist outlook on life that affected writers of these
periods.

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