2. First Semester JEOPARDY $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Romanticism Dark Romanticis m Fireside poets (individual poets) Fireside Poets #2 Transcende ntalism

4. 100A Question What is Romanticism?

5. 100A Answer A movement in literature and the fine arts, beginning in the early nineteenth century, that stressed personal emotion, intuition, free play of the imagination, and freedom from rules of form.

6. 200A Question Name two of the Romantic Writers.

7. 200A Answer James Fennimore Cooper and Washington Irving

8. 300A Question What was Romanticism a reaction to?

9. 300A Answer Rationalism

10. 400A Question Name the type of Romanticism that conflicts good vs. evil.

11. 400A Answer Dark Romanticism

12. 500A Question What time period was Romanticism popular? (years)

13. 500A Answer 1830-1865

14. 100B Question What is Dark Romanticism?

15. 100B Answer Explored conflict between good and evil

16. 200B Question What century did Dark Romanticism occur?

17. 200B Answer Mid 19 th Century

18. 300B Question Name two of the three Dark Romantic writers.

19. 300B Answer Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe

20. 400B Question True or False; Dark Romanticism agreed with the optimism inherent in Transcendentalism?

21. 400B Answer False

22. 500B Question What did Dark Romanticism emphasize? ( just name a few)

23. 500B Answer Sin, self-destruction, evil, psychology, Wisdom or perfection

24. 100C Question Who wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride”?

25. 100C Answer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

26. 200C Question Which Fireside poet was a founder of the Republican Party?

27. 200C Answer William Cullen Bryant

28. 300C Question Who wrote “The Present Crisis”?

29. 300C Answer James Russell Lowell

30. 400C Question Which poet was a medical doctor and invented the term “anesthesia”?

31. 400C Answer Oliver Wendell Holmes

32. 500C Question Name the two poets who were active in anti- slavery movements

33. 500C Answer James Russell Lowell and John Greenleaf Whittier

34. 100D Question Where were the fireside poets from? (Country)

35. 100D Answer America

36. 200D Question Who did the fireside poet’s style mimic?

37. 200D Answer European writing style

38. 300D Question What was often their subject matter?

39. 300D Answer American Legends and scenes of American life.

40. 400D Question Where did the Fireside Poets acquire their name?

41. 400D Answer Because writing for them was really easy and relaxed.. Like sitting next to a fire.

42. 500D Question Name three of the five major Fireside poets

43. 500D Answer Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, Holmes and Whittier

44. 100E Question What is Transcendentalism?

45. 100E Answer An American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early 19 th century

46. 200E Question When did this writing style occur?

47. 200E Answer Mid-19 th century

48. 300E Question Where were the Poets of Transcendentalism centered? (town)

49. 300E Answer Concord, MA.

50. 400E Question Name the two major Transcendentalist poets

51. 400E Answer Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

52. 500E Question Spell the topic of this category…

53. 500E Answer Transcendentalism