Day 1
By the late 1700’s, the Enlightenment, with its emphasis on reason and
classical studies, had run its course, a new artistic movement
had arose.
Proponents of Romanticism asked why people shouldn’t experience the world
through the heart instead of the mind?
Elimination of question mark with indirect question
Use of coordinating conjunction to correct run-on sentence
Correct past participle of irregular verb
Day 1
By the late 1700’s, the Enlightenment, with its emphasis on reason
and classical studies, had run its course, and a new artistic
movement had arisen.
Use of coordinating conjunction to correct run-on sentence
Correct past participle of irregular verb
Proponents of Romanticism asked why people shouldn’t experience
the world through the heart instead of the mind.
Elimination of question mark with indirect question
Day 2
Romantics cheered the French Revolution, which began on
July 14 1789. This changed Europe’s political landscape forever.
That revolution bloody and destructive would improve the lives of
common people; a concern of the Romantics.
Combining sentences
Use of commas to set off adjectives following noun
Use of comma between day and year in a date
Use of comma to set off appositive
Use of past perfect tense
Day 2
Romantics cheered the French Revolution, which had begun on July
14, 1789, and changed Europe’s political landscape forever.
Use of past perfect tense
Use of comma after day and year in a date
Combining sentences
That revolution, bloody and destructive, would improve the lives of
common people, a concern of the Romantics.
Use of commas to set off adjectives following noun
Use of comma to set off appositive
Day 3
Entirely different than the poetic style it replaced, Romanticism’s spontaneity
and excess was legendary.
The Romantics were interested in local history, folktales, and legends, the
mysterious, the imaginative, and the supernatural, and any new form of
expression.
Use of different from
Use of semicolons in a series containing commas
Subject and verb agreement
Day 3
Entirely different from the poetic style it replaced, Romanticism’s
tendency toward spontaneity and excess was legendary.
Use of different from
Subject and verb agreement
The Romantics were interested in local history, folktales, and
legends; the mysterious, the imaginative, and the supernatural; and
any new form of expression.
Use of semicolons in a series containing commas
Day 4
Romanticism stresses individual freedom the romantic hero often
becomes a rebel or outlaw, rejecting restrictive social conventions.
“Man is born free, the Romantic philosopher Jean-Jacques
Rousseau wrote, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Use of semicolon to correct run-on sentence
Use of quotation marks in a split quotation
Correction of misplaced participle phrase
Day 4
Romanticism stresses individual freedom; the romantic hero,
rejecting restrictive social conventions, often becomes a rebel or
outlaw.
Use of semicolon to correct run-on sentence
Correction of misplaced participle phrase
“Man is born free,” the Romantic philosopher Jean-Jacques
Rousseau wrote, “and everywhere he is in chains.”
Use of quotation marks in a split quotation
Day 5
Romantic painters used bold lighting effects and deep shadows to portray
their exotic subjects. They portrayed them in faraway settings too.
In many pieces of romantic music they often used folk songs as
themes and stressed lyricism over formalism.
Revision of wordy sentence
Correction of they without a clear antecedent
Use of prepositional phrase to combine sentences
Day 5
Romantic painters used bold lighting effects and deep shadows to portray their
exotic subjects in faraway settings.
Use of prepositional phrase to combine sentences
Revision of wordy sentence
In many pieces of romantic music
Composers of romantic music often used folk songs as themes and stressed
lyricism over formalism.
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Correction of they without a clear antecedent