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ENGL201 Quiz: The American Renaissance/Romantic Period Summer 2025/ENGL201 Quiz: The American Renaissance/Romantic Period Summer 2025
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Emerson's "The American Scholar," inter alia, is a call for American intellectual independence. True False
Published only 7 poems during her lifetime Walt Whitman Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Bartleby Emily Dickinson
Wrote a five-volume biography of George Washington
Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 4
Authored “Walden” Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau
One of the chief advocates of politics of conscience Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 8
Poe’s “Annabel Lee” does not meet his own criteria for a successful poem. True False Question 9
The poem “When Lilacs Last at the Dooryard Bloom’d” thematizes the death of __________ Abraham Lincoln
Walt Whitman Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Dream Question 10
Author of “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” Herman Melville Walt Whitman Nathaniel Hawthorne Emily Dickinson Young Goodman Brown Bartleby Edgar Allan Poe Question 11
Helped establish the blueprint for the modern detective tale/story Edgar Allan Poe
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E pluribus unum, Latin for “one from many,” is thematized in this poem_______ ““Song of Myself” “Thanatopsis” “Annabel Lee” “the Raven” Question 14
Once maintained a one-man community Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau
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Oliver Wendell Holmes describes his essay as "our intellectual Declaration of Independence." Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry D. Thoreau Question 16
Was a strange young man who took employment in a lawyer's office. Walt Whitman Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Bartleby Emily Dickinson
Doublet Alliteration Question 20
Authored “A Tour on the Prairies” Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 21
Was supported by lawyers, including his brother and father-in-law Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 22
Edgar Allan Poe considered this poet greater than any other American poet. Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry D. Thoreau Question 23
Incorporated elements of Gothicism in his “Tales of Terror,” which featured psychological abnormalities to heighten terror. Herman Melville
False Question 26
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. The above is an excerpt from________ “One’s-Self I Sing” “Thanatopsis” “Annabel Lee” “The Raven” Question 27
Transcendentalism is the belief that man has the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining knowledge that transcends the senses. True False Question 28
Wrote a poem that means "a view of death." Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 29
I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea: But we loved with a love that was more than love… With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, … And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea Devices used in this excerpt include ____________ Paradox, irony, and quatrains Similes, ironies, and idioms
Emily Dickinson Question 32
Which of the following is/are major Romantic characteristics of Washington Irving's writing: Emphasis on American regional setting and character types (literary nationalism) Use of the picturesque and picaresque Escape from commonplace realities to the shadowy grandeur of the past All the above Question 33
William Cullen Bryant's "To A Waterfowl" celebrates God's divine providence. True False Question 34
Wrote “Young Goodman Brown” Walt Whitman
Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Bartleby Emily Dickinson Question 35
“The Melville Revival” occurred during the 1920’s and 1930’s. True False Question 36
Says nature has "various language" Edgar Allan Poe William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Question 37
Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me –
Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 40
"Rip Van Winkle" exhibits elements of legend and folklore. True False