Mrs. Woodliff's English III



Transcendentalism, Romanticism Test Review. Know the following…

Romanticism: What brought about Romanticism? Characteristics, brooding romanticism, gothic literature.

Transcendentalism: Characteristics

Authors: who were these men?

Edgar Allan Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dante

Horace Walpole

“The Devil and Tom Walker”

1. Who were Absalom Crowningshield & Deacon Peabody?

2. What did the trees in the forest symbolize?

3. What point was Washington Irving trying to make about Puritans?

4. Tom & His wife – how do they feel about each other? Give evidence for your answer.

5. How and why does Tom become a censurer?

6. What happens to the money at the end of the story? Why?

7. What happens to Tom at the end?

8. Characters: Tom, Wife, Devil

9. Tom’s greed, wife, pirate’s money

“The Fall of the House of Usher”

1. Roderick Usher and the narrator’s relationship.

2. Usher’s hobbies, poetry, music, reading.

3. What does Usher sing about?

4. Usher’s symptoms

5. Unity of Effect, mood

6. Roderick’s death

7. Characters: narrator, Roderick, Madeline.

“Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”

1. Why doesn’t Dr. Heidegger drink the water?

2. Compare and contrast the characters

3. Theme, lesson learned

4. Tone (attitude)

5. Explain the story logically

6. Characters: Colonel Killigrew Widow Wycherly Dr. Heidegger Mr. Medbourne Mr. Gascoigne

Vocabulary: word, part of speech, definition. Matching, multiple choice, fill in the blank.

1. Usurer

2. Alleviation

3. Infamous

4. Anomaly

5. Deference

6. Skeptic

7. Transient

8. Avarice

9. Vagary

10. Venerable

11. Efface

12. Insipid

13. Assimilate

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