Romantic Test Study Guide
Answer the questions in complete sentences. The more in depth and more in depth you answer the questions, the better prepared for the test you’ll be. Use your Elements of Literature textbook, in class notes, any in class handouts, & Response notes to answer the following questions.
1. What is American Romanticism associated with?
2. What is American Romanticism NOT associated with?
3. What is the city associated with in Romantic literature?
4. Where as the characteristic journey to in 19th century American literature?
5. Why were the fireside poets read?
6. Who wrote Rip Van Winkle?
7. What made Rip Van Winkle Fall asleep?
8. How long did rip Van Winkle sleep for?
9. Who cares for Rip in his old age?
10. Why is Rip a classic Romantic Hero?
11. Who wrote “To a Water Fowl” and “Thanatopsis”?
12. What is the theme of “To a Water Fowl”?
13. Does Bryant consider the grave a lonely place in “Thanatopsis”?
14. What metaphors or similes are used in the final lines of “Thanatopsis”?
15. What does Bryant compare the waterfowl to in “To a Water Fowl”?
16. What does Bryant compare the hunter to in “To a Water Fowl”?
17. Who wrote “Psalm of Life,” “The Cross of Snow,” The Rope Walk,” and “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”?
18. What does “Psalm of Life” encourage people to do?
19. What is the theme of “Cross of Snow”?
20. What is Longfellow’s cross?
21. How is the actual work depicted in the Rope Walk? ( boring, hard, fun, ect)
22. What are the factory workers compared to in the Rope Walk?
23. What is “The Tide Rises, the Tide falls” about?
24. Who wrote “Old Ironsides” and “The Chamber Nautilus”?
25. What is “Old Ironsides”?
26. What other alternative is proposed in the poem for Old Ironsides?
27. What is a nautilus?
28. What is the nautilus compared to?
29. Who wrote “Snowbound: A winter Idyll”?
30. Snowbound is about a snowstorm that recalls Whittier’s boyhood in Massachusetts. True or false?
31. What general interest of American Romanticism is expressed in Snow bound?
32. Who wrote “She came and went”?
33. How does Lowell feel about his daughter’s death?
34. Like Longfellow in the “Cross of Snow” Lowell expresses what about death?
Be prepared to analyze a Romantic poem (one you have not read) by Bryant and answer questions and write a paragraph response based off of the poem.
Be prepared to write a paragraph response using your SLAVERY packet- you may bring this to class. You will be using LOGOS, PATHOS, and ETHOS in your writing.
Be able to define POETRY terms, literary and vocabulary terms from your Romantic syllabus.
Be able to define: objective vs. subjective