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American RomanticismTraits
  • Valued poetry because allowed one to use
    imagination
  • Preferred youthful innocence over educated
    sophistication
  • Looked to past for wisdom distrusted progress
  • Found truth beauty in exotic locations,
    supernatural, world of imagination.
  • Found inspiration in myths, legends, folk
    culture

2
Philosophies/Beliefs
  • Nature held truths to the questions problems of
    life
  • Valued feelings intuition over reason (follow
    your heart not your head)
  • Live let live

3
Historical Connection
  • Industrial Revolution- towns cities coming up
    crime followed
  • Expansion North to cities which left farming
    communities struggling bad for slave owners
  • Expansion Westward began
  • More technology like cotton gins, railroads,
    telegraphs, etc. with the rise of Industrial
    Revolution

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Authors Literature
  • Washington Irving The Devil and Tom Walker,
    ,The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Rip Van
    Winkle
  • William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis To a
    Water Fowl
  • FIRESIDE POETS
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • James Russell Lowell
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes

5
Literary terms
  • Theme central message of a work of literature
    that readers can apply to life.
  • Mood emotional quality or atmosphere created by
    tone, diction, rhyme, rhythm, and setting

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Literary terms
  • Satire literature that exposes the vices or
    follies of people or society to bring awareness
    and change.
  • Tall tale literature that is humorous contain
    wild exaggerations and is not intended to be
    believable. Usually the heroes are bold but
    sometimes foolish characters that may have super
    human abilites.

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Literay terms
  • Tone authors attitude toward subject matter
    and is conveyed through diction, punctuation,
    sentence structure, figures of speech
  • Plot chain of events in a drama or narrative
    work of fiction. (exposition, rising action,
    climax, falling action, and denouement)
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