Transcendentalism
reaction to Age of Reason;
value intuition over
reason,
God is in Nature,
Nature & man R basically
good,
death is just a part of life,
go out into to Nature to
heal and to become
rejuvenated
Gothic Romantic
a reaction to Age of
Reason, man is basically
evil (Original Sin), Nature
(woods) are full of
sin/Satan; intense guilt;
insanity and hallucinations
Strange locations, secret
sin, insane narrators, dying
females, secret sin
Emily Dickinson
Poetry
Crazy
Acting
People
People
At Their
Worst
Truth
In
Extreme
Situations
Realism &
Regionalism
reaction to Romanticism,
social problems, slice of
life, regionalism,
dialect/accent, humor, a
look at life in America as
it really is—dirt and all
rejuvenated
Naturalism
an extreme of
realism, Nature is
beautiful but savage,
man has no power
against her.
Environment and
heredity explains person
and predicts future
Song of Myself
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Poetry
Self Reliance
Independent Thinking
Nonconformity
Nature
Slice
Of
Life
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novel & Short Story
Scarlet Letter, Minister’s Black Veil, Twice Told Tales,
Young Goodman Brown
Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge
John Mortonson's Funeral”
Kate Chopin
Short Story and Novels
Mark Twain
Novels and Short Story
Ne1-Nature
Explains
individual
Sci-fiscience
freewill
invalidation
Tell Tale Heart, Annabel Lee, Cask of Amontillado, The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
Short Story & Poetry
Ambrose Bierce
Short Story
I heard a fly buzz
Hope is a thing with Feathers
Because I could not stop for death
The Story of an Hour
Silk Stockings
Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer
Hop Frog
Jack London
Short Story and Novel
Stephen Crane
Novel, Short Story, Poetry
To Build a Fire
White Fang, Call of the Wild
Open Boat, Red Badge of Courage
Man to the Universe
PURITANISM:
Religious
work ethic,
New England,
Male driven
nonfiction,
sermons,
ask God to solve
your problems
Total Depravity—all damned b/c of Adam & Eve
Unconditional Election--Predestination
Limited Atonement—Jesus died to save some
Irresistible Grace—Grace can’t be earned, God
chooses
Perseverance of the Saints—elect can interpret
will of God
Anne Bradstreet
Poet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Upon the Burning of Our House
Jonathan Edwards
Preacher
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry
God—SERMON (Nonfiction)
ENLIGHTENMENT
brain for reasoning, clockmaker
god, PEOPLE ARE GOOD
and perfectible through reason
optimistic,
political,
call to war against
England/King George, creation
of a government of/by/and for
the people
Helping
Others
Reason
Sympathy
Romanticism
Fireside Poets
Feeling & emotion over reason,
Optimism,
Escape industrialization to
nature.
Romantic hero is young, pure of
Heart, avoids town life, has
morality beyond society and
religion, street smarts, searches
for higher truth
Nature
Intuition
Individual
The Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin
Patrick Henry
Nonfiction (speech)
Speech to the Virginia Convention—
give me liberty or give me death
William Cullen Bryant (Poetry Close to European Style) To a
Poet
Waterfowl, Thanotopsis
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow--Poet
The Tide Rises the Tide Falls
Psalm of Life (Close to European Style)
James Fenimore Cooper
Novelist
Transcendentalism
reaction to Age of Reason;
value intuition over
reason,
God is in Nature,
Nature & man R basically
good,
death is just a part of life,
go out into to Nature to
heal and to become
rejuvenated
Benjamin Franklin
Nonfiction
Self Reliance
Independent Thinking
Nonconformity
Nature
Last of the Mohicans (American
Themes—heading west
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays
Henry David Thoreau
Essays
Margaret Fuller
Essays
Self Reliance
American Scholar
Civil Disobedience
Walden
The Great Lawsuit
Persuasive Strategies:
Ethos, Logos, Pathos,
Rhetorical Devices:
Repetition
Restatement
Parallelism
Antithesis
Rhetorical question
POETRY TERMS
Sound devices
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
End Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Internal Rhyme
Form/Structure
Fixed
Free
Rhymed
Unrhymed
Narrative
Lyric
Figurative Language
Personification
Imagery
Metaphor
Extended Metaphor
Simile
Symbol
Allusion
Hyperbole
Understatement