ENGL 201 Test 3 / Quiz 3

ENGL 201 Test 3 Liberty University

ENGL 201 Quiz: The American Renaissance/Romantic Period

1. William Cullen Bryant’s “To A Waterfowl” celebrates God’s divine providence.
2. Exaltation of reason over feeling is one of the characteristic of Romanticism.
3. Only published 7 poems when s/he was alive
4. We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess – in the Ring –
   We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
   We passed the Setting Sun – The catalog of journey’s sites—the Schoolyard, Farmland, and Setting sun— symbolize
5. We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away
   My labor and my leisure too,
   For His Civility – The “He” in the poem refers to
6. Authored “The Piazza Tales” (1856)
7. Washington Irving authored “The legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
8. Says the individual is only instrument to ascertain truth, to find God for himself through himself
9. Transcendentalism is the belief that man has the capacity of attaining knowledge that transcends the senses.
10. Argued that the scholar derives scholarly truth about himself and democratic America through nature, action and, intuition.
11. This character can be interpreted as an autobiographical representation of Herman Melville.
12. Described poetry as “The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty”
13. In his “Civil Disobedience” Thoreau applies transcendentalism to politics.
14. Says the scholar must never bow to the popular will.
15. Authored “When Lilacs Last at the Dooryard Bloom’d.” and “One’s self I Sing.”
16. William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis” is his most famous poem.
17. Establish the technique for the modern detective tale.
18. Dying unmourned is not important, according to this speaker/poet
19. One of the major characters in Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” is a Lawyer.
20. This lecture was delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge
21. The Age of Romanticism may be defined (inter alia) as a time writers began showing enthusiasm about portraying a unique American literature and national life.
22. Authored the “The Masque of the Red Death”
23. “The Purloined Letter” is an example of
24. William Cullen Bryant discarded his literary romanticism to become a neoclassicist.
25. Was supported by lawyers, including his brother and father-in-law
26. Uses archaic words such as “thee,” “thou,” “list,” and “couldst” in his major poem.
27. Authored “Annabel Lee”
28. Edgar Allan Poe wrote tales of terror.
29. Wrote “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent”
30. This character is portrayed as imprudent and irrational.
31. Incorporated elements of Gothicism in his “Tales of Terror,” which featured psychological abnormalities to heighten terror.
32. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know…. And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. This is an excerpt of a poem written by_
33. E pluribus unum, Latin for “one from many,” is thematized in this poem_______
34. Wrote satirical pieces called “Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.”
35. When journeying in the forest, this character believes he sees the “elect” in his town going astray. His “experiences” could be real or a dream.
36. “We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe”: who made this statement?
37. Writers from this period of American literature believed that nature is great teacher; therefore, one needs to live closer to nature.
38. Expresses idea of the expansive or plural self in his poetry.
39. This poet made a plea for physical, intellectual, and spiritual unity of all nations.
40. Primitivism and pantheism are some of the major characteristics of Romanticism.

Set 1

1. Otmar’s tale of “Peter Klaus” in the Voltssagen is one of the sources of               
2. In “Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau uses the Civil War as an example of a 19th century
3. The phrase or refrain “I prefer not to” recurs in Melville’s “Bartleby, the “
4. Authored “The legend of Sleepy Hollow”
5. Walt Whitman saw the poet as representative of a small elite class of
6. This lecture was delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge
7. Helped establish the blueprint for the modern detective tale/story
8. A major tenet of Romanticism is the belief that the Natural world is a source of corruption and, man’s societies, a source of goodness.
9. Wrote both terror tales and tales of beauty
10. Was supported by lawyers, including his brother and father-in-law
11. Asserts that the United States is “essentially the greatest “
12. The “dead letters’ in this author’s story are equated with his own rejected manuscripts / failed
13. We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility – The “He” in the poem is an example of
14. Author of “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”
15. Primitivism is the belief in the superiority of the simple life and the
16. Edgar Allan Poe considered this poet greater than any other American
17. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,
18. Says he aimed at the presentation of “sound “
19. To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours
20. Says he considers “a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my “
21. Romantic prose writer of the sea
22. This character can be interpreted as an autobiographical representation of Herman
23. E pluribus unum, Latin for “one from many,” is thematized in this poem
24. Charlotte and Emily Bronte were British contemporaries of Emily
25. Defines the scholar as “Man “
26. Described poetry as “The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty”
27. Establish the technique for the modern detective
28. “The Purloined Letter” is an example of
29. Asserts that United States is “essentially the greatest poem”
30. “Thanatopsis” was written when William Cullen Bryant was 27 years
31. When journeying in the forest, this character believes he sees the “elect” in his town going His “experiences” could be real or a dream.
32. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea:
33. The following tale of terror uses psychological abnormality to heighten terror:
34. Argued that the scholar derives truth about himself and democratic America through nature
35. Emerson’s “The American Scholar,” inter alia, is a call for American intellectual
36. Lived all her life in Amherst,
37. Primitivism and pantheism are some of the major characteristics of
38. Dying unmourned is not important, according to this speaker/poet
39. “Annabel Lee” uses rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and
40. “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is about an individual’s rebellion against society, custom, and

Set 2

1. E pluribus unum, Latin for “one from many,” is thematized in this poem_______
2. Described poetry as “The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty”
3. Author of “Leaves of Grass.”
4. We slowly drove – He knew no haste
   And I had put away
   My labor and my leisure too,
   For His Civility –
   The “He” in the poem is an example of ________
5. Author of “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”
6. Argued that the scholar derives truth about himself and democratic America through nature
7. We slowly drove – He knew no haste
   And I had put away
   My labor and my leisure too,
   For His Civility –
   The “He” in the poem refers to ________
8. Says life aboard ship (on sea) was “his Harvard and his Yale.”
9. “Rip Van Winkle” exhibits elements of legend and folklore.
10. Exaltation of emotion over reason is one of the characteristic of Romanticism.
11. 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.
    According to the excerpt, “Nature…/… speaks” “various language,” such as
12. “Annabel Lee” uses rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and repetition.
13. “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is about an individual’s rebellion against society, custom, and authority.
14. Uses references to walls as symbols/metaphors of confinement
15. This lecture was delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge
16. Edgar Allan Poe considered this poet greater than any other American poet.
17. Argued that the scholar derives scholarly truth about himself and democratic America through nature, action and, intuition.
18. In his “Civil Disobedience” Thoreau applies transcendentalism to politics.
19. E pluribus unum, Latin for “one from many,” is thematized in this poem_______
20. Ralph Waldo Emerson praised solitude, being alone in nature to experience true harmony with the world and inner peace.
21. Transcendentalism is the belief that man has the capacity of attaining knowledge that transcends the senses.
22. The American Renaissance was a time writers began showing enthusiasm about portraying a unique American literature and national life.
23. Wrote “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent”
24. His graduation poem expressed religious views of orthodox Puritanism.
25. One of the major characters in Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” is a Lawyer.
26. In “Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau uses the Civil War as an example of a 19th century injustice.
27. Once attempted to become a scrivener
28. The poem “When Lilacs Last at the Dooryard Bloom’d” thematizes the death of __________
29. Which of the following is/are major Romantic characteristics of Washington Irving’s writing:
30. Only published 7 poems when s/he was alive
31. Expresses idea of the expansive or plural self in his poetry.
32. Says the scholar’s main duty is to inspire man to higher levels of knowledge.
33. Oliver Wendell Holmes describes his essay as “our intellectual Declaration of Independence.”
34. William Cullen Bryant started writing poetry when he was a teenager.
35. Writers from this period of American literature believed that nature is great teacher; therefore, one needs to live closer to nature.
36. 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
    According to the speaker of the poem, his beloved was killed by________
37. 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.
    Which period of American literature does this poem best exemplify?
38. This poet suggests that only the defeated truly understand the blessings of victory.
39. “Thanatopsis” was written when William Cullen Bryant was 27 years old.
40. 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.
    According to the excerpt, “Nature…/… speaks” “various language,” such as