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Loeb / McLaughlinEnglish IIKenwood AcademyAmerican Romanticism Study GuideThe following key ideas, concepts, and content will be featured on the American Romanticism Exam:RomanticismHistorical Context and Key Features / CharacteristicsCharacteristics of the Romantic HeroDifferences between American Romanticism and the Age of Enlightenment / ReasonEmily Dickinson’s “The Brain is Wider than the Sky” and “Wild Nights, Wild Nights”Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” and “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”Biographies of Dickinson and WhitmanTranscendentalismHistorical Context and Key Features / CharacteristicsRalph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden”Biographies of Emerson and ThoreauDark Romanticism Historical Context and Key Features / CharacteristicsCharacteristics of the Dark Romantic HeroRecall definition and examples of MacabreDifferences between Dark Romanticism and TranscendentalismEdgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”AlliterationRepetition and VariationInside Rhyme SchemeBiography of PoeRealismHistorical Context and Key Features / CharacteristicsRecall definition and examples of VerisimilitudeUnderstand and explain the shift and bridge between Romanticism and Modernism which is created by RealismKate Chopin’s “The Kiss”Biography of ChopinLoeb / McLaughlinEnglish IIKenwood AcademyAmerican Romanticism Study GuideThe following key ideas, concepts, and content will be featured on the American Romanticism Exam:RomanticismHistorical Context and Key Features / CharacteristicsCharacteristics of the Romantic HeroDifferences between American Romanticism and the Age of Enlightenment / ReasonEmily Dickinson’s “The Brain is Wider than the Sky” and “Wild Nights, Wild Nights”Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” and “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”Biographies of Dickinson and WhitmanTranscendentalismHistorical Context and Key Features / CharacteristicsRalph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden”Biographies of Emerson and ThoreauDark Romanticism Historical Context and Key Features / CharacteristicsCharacteristics of the Dark Romantic HeroRecall definition and examples of MacabreDifferences between Dark Romanticism and TranscendentalismEdgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”AlliterationRepetition and VariationInside Rhyme SchemeBiography of PoeRealismHistorical Context and Key Features / CharacteristicsRecall definition and examples of VerisimilitudeUnderstand and explain the shift and bridge between Romanticism and Modernism which is created by RealismKate Chopin’s “The Kiss”Biography of Chopin ................
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