Age of Faith | Age of Reason | Romanticism | Transcendentalists | Realism |
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What is religion?
The main subject for works from the Age of Faith was ________________.
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What are letters, autobiographies, and persuasive documents?
The forms of the Age of Reason were these.
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What is romance?
Contrary to popular belief, the romantic era was not about this.
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What are the human experience, self-reliance, and nature?
The Transcendentalist movement centered around these things.
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What is rejection of convention?
Realism was a response to this literary movement.
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What is fire?
The Age of Faith often utilized this type of image.
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What is the Age of Faith?
The Age of Reason was in response to this.
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What is dark and depressing imagery?
The imagery common throughout the Romantic era was this.
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What is individualism?
Transcendentalism stressed this in the selections.
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What are ordinary people and anti-materialism?
Realism focused on these things.
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What is the helplessness of humans in the hands of God?
This theme was common among the literature during the Age of Faith.
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Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This Age of Reason author stressed self-reliance and common sense.
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What is the Age of Reason?
Romanticism was a response to this literary era.
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What is nature?
This is a common theme throughout the Transcendentalist movement.
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What is Naturalism?
This is an extreme form of Realism.
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What is Enlightenment?
The Age of Faith and the Age of Reason combined to create this over all literary era.
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What is progress?
This idea is common throughout the literature of the Age of Reason.
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What is nature?
In Moby Dick, the whale represented this.
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Who is Thoreau?
This author "practiced what he preached."
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What are real characters, realistic story lines, and realistic situations.
Mark Twain showed he was a Realism author by do these things.
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What is The General History of Virginia?
This selection was out of place due to its non-religious subject matter.
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What are women's rights?
Abigail Adams' purpose for writing the letter to her daughter was this.
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What are the supernatural/occult and death?
These themes are common throughout the Romantic Era.
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Who is Emerson?
This author helped establish the philosophy of individualism.
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What are vivid imagery, realistic story lines, and extreme situations.
Jack London was a Naturalist writer. His writings express that he was a Naturalist writer through these things.
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