English 11 H American Romanticism Unit Test

MATCHING Match the letter of the author with his or her description. Not all letters will be used.

My transcendentalist world view is evident in my journal, Walden.

I am hailed as the Father of Free Verse.

The following passage exemplifies my writing style: "The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope..."

The following passage exemplifies my writing style: "A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back..."

Choose the meaning of the BOLDED vocabulary word in each passage. "Once, the listener fancied that he could DISTINGUISH the accent of town's-people if his own..."

"But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and poius people...were men of DISSOLUTE lives and women of spotted fame..."

"It was a VOLUPTUOUS scene, that masquerade. "

"...AMID the profusion of golden ornaments that lay scattered to and fro or depended from the roof."

"...there arose at length from tbe whole company buzz, or murmur, expressive of DISAPPROBATION and surprise..."

"Here the case was very different; as might have been expected from the duke's love of the bizarre. The apartments were so irregularly DISPOSED that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time. There was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards, and at each turn a novel effect."

Which of the following words is the Greek root word for symmetry?

Which of the following is the root meaning of transcendentalism?

In the word neoclassicism, the Greek prefix neo- means

Young Goodman Brown's companion is most likely

From lines 8-9 readers could infer that Young Goodman Brown

Which of the following can be inferred about the companion in lines 15-17?

Each sentence contains an appositive phrase. Determine whether the appositive phrase is essential or non-essential. Mark the sentence that punctuates the appositive phrase correctly.

Mark the sentence that punctuates the appositive phrase correctly.

Mark the sentence that punctuates the appositive phrase correctly.

Mark the sentence that punctuates the appositive phrase correctly.

American Romanticism includes all of the following genres EXCEPT

Which of the following authors was an American romantic poet?