| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Romanticism | movement stressing nature, emotion, intution, individual, mystery, democracy, imagination |
| Transcendentalism | movement stressing possibilities, optimism, self reliance |
| Anti-Transcendentalism | movement stressing limitations, pessimism, dark themes |
| Fireside Poetry | included popular and accessible topics: family, home, patriotism, history, hope |
| Dark Romantics | Poe, Hawthorne, Melville |
| Romantics | Irving, Bryant |
| Transcendentalists | Emerson, Thoreau |
| Fireside Poets | Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell |
| alliteration | repetition of words with same initial consonant sound |
| allusion | reference to famous person, place, or thing to add meaning/ Biblical, mythical, historical, literary... |
| foreshadowing | clues or hints that suggest later events in the story |
| imagery | vivid language that appeals to the senses |
| symbol | stands for something else as well as itself |
| sound devices | alliteration, assonance, consonance, internal rhyme, onomatopoeia |
| single effect | every sentence, word, and idea contributes to a unified theme or impression |
| Thanatopsis | Greek word meaning view of death |
| Longfellow | Most popular of Fireside Poets |
| Lowell | Most talented of Fireside Poets |
| Whittier | Most humble of Fireside Poets/ not university educated |
| Holmes | Most versatile of Fireside Poets- also had distinguished medical career |
| William Cullen Bryant | Wrote poetic statement of Romanticism at early age; first American poet with international acclaim |
| Melville & Hawthorne | cemented American prose reputation with 1850 and 1851 publications of SL & MD |
| Washington Irving | known for many pseudonyms; rewrote European legends with American settings |
| apostrophe | statement of direct address; speaking to an absent person or thing in writing |
| Edgar Allan Poe | father of detective stories; master of sound devices; Dark Romantic |
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