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American Romanticism Traits Valued poetry because allowed one to use imagination Preferred youthful innocence over educated sophistication Looked to past for wisdom & distrusted progress Found truth & beauty in: exotic locations, supernatural, & world of imagination. Found inspiration in myths, legends, & folk culture

Philosophies/Beliefs Nature held truths to the questions & problems of life Valued feelings & intuition over reason (follow your heart & not your head) Live & let live

Historical Connection Industrial Revolution- towns & cities coming up & crime followed Expansion North to cities which left farming communities struggling & bad for slave owners Expansion Westward began More technology like cotton gins, railroads, telegraphs, etc. with the rise of Industrial Revolution

Authors & Literature Washington Irving – “The Devil and Tom Walker,” “,The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” and “Rip Van Winkle” William Cullen Bryant – “Thanatopsis” & “To a Water Fowl” FIRESIDE POETS: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell Oliver Wendell Holmes

Literary terms Theme – central message of a work of literature that readers can apply to life. Mood – emotional quality or atmosphere created by tone, diction, rhyme, rhythm, and setting Tone

Literary terms Satire – literature that exposes the vices or follies of people or society to bring awareness and change. Tall tale – literature that is humorous & contain wild exaggerations and is not intended to be believable. Usually the heroes are bold but sometimes foolish characters that may have super human abilites.

Literay terms Tone – author’s attitude toward subject matter and is conveyed through diction, punctuation, sentence structure, & figures of speech Plot – chain of events in a drama or narrative work of fiction. (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement)