Romanticism Unit Test ReviewA review game to prepare for the test

Romantic writers embraced nature and distrusted which

environment?

The City

Describe Tom Walker.

Miserly, greedy, fearless, heartless

Romanticism is ultimately a literary movement and

artistic movement that is a reaction against what other

literary movement?

Rationalism, The Age of Reason

The woods in “The Devil and Tom Walker” is supposed to

represent…

Evil

In “The Devil and Tom Walker,” what symbolizes

hidden greed and hypocrisy?

The rotten trees in the forest

Why is dark romanticism different from romanticism?

Dark romantic writers write about the darker aspects of human

nature.

Before he reveals it, how can the audience tell that Tom is

talking to the Devil?

He is described as having red eyes, strange clothes, black bristly

hair

Describe Mrs. Walker

Miserly, greedy, fearless

What do the names on the trees in the forest indicate?

Others within the town who have a made a deal with the devil.

Why does Tom not sign a deal with the Devil initially?

He wants to think it over, and he wants to spite his wife

What is a likely theme for “The Devil and Tom Walker”?

Greed and mean-spiritedness lead to misery

Irving uses indirect characterization by having

Tom enter the forest to show he is…

Fearless, unlike the superstitious community

What is Tom’s major motivation for signing his

deal with the Devil?

Greed

What is a likely theme for “Thanatopsis”

Humans beings are an ongoing part of the earth itself.

According to the speaker of “Thanatopsis,” what happens after death?

Humans become a part of the earth

According to the speaker of “Thanatopsis,” what should

people do when they start to think about death?

Go out into nature

The title “Thanatopsis” means…

Death view or view of death

Why is “Thanatopsis” an example of Romantic

poetry?

Nature awakens emotions and insights in the speaker

What is the term for poetic device where the poet

switches the typical word order?

Inversion

In “The Cross of Snow,” what does the speaker compare

his loved to?

A martyr

What is the cycle of life according to “Thanatopsis”?

The dead are replaced by the living, who then die

What is the cross that the speaker has to bear in the

poem “Cross of Snow”?

His constant pain over his lost loved one

What is the mood of “Cross of Snow”?

Grieving

In “Cross of Snow,” the images of the halo, fire, and

sunlight are contrasted with…

The sunless ravine

What type of poem is “Cross of Snow”?

An Italian Sonnet

The first three stanzas of “She Came and Went” are examples of what literary

device?i.e. “As twig trembles which a bird lights on to sing then

leaves unbent”Similes

How is the female subject of the poem remembered in

“Cross of Snow”?

Fondly and they are missed

What is a likely theme for “Annabel Lee”?

Love can bring intense sorrow as well as joy

What is a possible theme for “The Raven”?

The intense grief that accompanies the loss of a loved one can lead an individual to lose their grasp on reality.

What is the tone of “She Came and Went”?

Depressed

“Annabel Lee” most likely expresses Poe’s grief over…

His wife’s death

Who does the speaker in “Annabel Lee” blame for the

death of his loved one?

Envious angels

What is rhyme scheme?

The pattern of end rhyme in a poem

What is a word that describes the tone of

“Annabel Lee”?

tortured

What is a word that describes the tone of the narrator in “The Raven”?

Disturbed

What literary device is being used the following line:

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing”

Internal rhyme

What is alliteration?

Repetition of an initial consonant sound

Why does the raven in “The Raven” probably only repeat

the word “nevermore”?

It is the only word it knows

Why is Lenore “nameless here for evermore”?

She is dead and has no earthly name

What is the mood of “The Fall of the House of Usher”?

melancholy

The narrator of “The Fall of the House of Usher” tried to

portray himself as more what than Usher”?

rational

What is the “remarkable fact” concerning the Usher

family?

They are in a direct line if descent

What is a central theme of “The Fall of the House of

Usher”?

A person cut off from the world can fall prey to irrational fears and

mental illness

What is the name of Roderick Usher’s sister?

Madeline

What is the single effect created for the reader of “The Fall of the House of

Usher”?

terror

What detail early the “The Fall of the House of Usher”

foreshadows the story’s ending?

The crack or fissure in the house

What is the point of view of “The Fall of the House of

Usher”?

1st person

What is the “fiend intemperance” that the

narrator of “The Black Cat” struggles with?

alcoholism

What is the likely climax of “The Black Cat”?

When the cat cries behind the wall

The second cat in “The Black Cat” is most likely a symbol

for…?

The narrator’s guilt

The narrator of “The Black Cat” is telling his story

from…?

Prison

What happened to Edgar Allan Poe’s wife?

She died from tuberculosis

What happened to Edgar Allan Poe’s mother?

She dies from tuberculosis

What happened to Edgar Allan Poe’s father?

He was an alcoholic that abandoned the family

Why was Poe’s marriage controversial?

He married his 13 year old cousin

Why were the fireside poets given that name?

Families would sit around the fire and read their works to each other

What literary device does Poe seem to use most in his

short stories?

Imagery

What literary devices does Poe seem to use most in his

poems?

Sound devices

What is an allusion?

A reference to another work of literature, a famous historical

event, or a famous historical person

Define mood

The atmosphere created for the reader by the author.

Why is the narrator’s crime discovered in “The Black

Cat”?

He raps his cane against the wall of the “tomb” where he placed his wife, and the cat lets out a scream

Define tone

The attitude of the author towards the subject and characters.

Name and label a conflict from the “The Black Cat.”

Answers will vary

What does the narrator see in the remains of his house after it has been destroyed

by fire?

A lone wall still standing with the silhouette or image of a hung cat

During what century did American Romanticism take

place?

19th century

What is personification?

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

Name an allusion from “The Raven.”

Pluto, Aidenn, Pallas Athena

American Romantic writers thoughts that logic and

reason were inferior, or less valuable, than what?

Imagination, feelings, emotions, spontaneity, nature