Poetry- pa- looza Fan- tastic Ro- mantic SNI PD! Symbols, You Say ? What You Say? Say What, Again?
Poetry-pa-looza – 100 This is the idea being praised or criticized in the following lines of poetry.
Poetry-pa-looza – 100 “Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon’s roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more.”
What is love of the past OR valuing the past?
Poetry-pa-looza – 200 This is the idea being praised or criticized in the following lines of poetry.
Poetry-pa-looza – 200 “No more shall feel the victor’s tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea!”
What is distrust of civilization/ government?
Poetry-pa-looza – 300 This is the idea being praised or criticized in the following lines of poetry.
Poetry-pa-looza – 300 “Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave”
What is love of nature?
Poetry-pa-looza – 400 This is the idea being praised or criticized in the following lines of poetry.
Poetry-pa-looza – 400 “When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick”
What is distrust/ criticism of civilization or society?
Poetry-pa-looza – 500 This is the idea being praised or criticized in the following lines of poetry.
Poetry-pa-looza – 500 “Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night- air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.”
What is love of nature?
Fantastic Romantic – 100 This is one of the qualities of a hero from the Romantic era.
What is: driven by instinct/intuition rugged/ tough solitary/ reflective emotional connected to nature
Fantastic Romantic – 200 This is the Romantic era attitude toward religion.
What is strong and connected to love of nature?
Fantastic Romantic – 300 This is something the Romantics wanted to celebrate and found to be inspirational, believing that it holds a higher place than reason or logic.
What is emotion?
Fantastic Romantic – 400 This is something the Romantics celebrated for its power and mystery and something they saw as very closely connected to God.
What is nature?
Fantastic Romantic – 500 This is the name of the poem we studied that helped us draw many comparisons between the Age of Reason and the Romantic era.
What is “The Learn’d Astronomer”?
SNIPD! – 100 This is S.
What is fondness or celebration of the supernatural and the unexplained and mysteries?
SNIPD! – 200 This is I – in opposition to deciding something based on evidence.
What is intuition?
SNIPD! – 300 This is D.
What is distrust of society or of civilization?
SNIPD! – 400 This is why the Romantics like the Past.
What is like the ideals or the virtues of people in the past or great deeds of the past?
SNIPD! – 500 This is I – to do with a rejection of conformity.
What is independence?
Symbols, You Say? – 100 This is what Prince Prospero represents.
What is wealthy people, trying to hide from reality and death?
Symbols, You Say? – 200 This is what the clock represents in “Masque of the Red Death.”
What is time and fears about the end of life?
Symbols, You Say? – 300 This is what the seven rooms represent in Prince Prospero’s abbey.
What are the various stages of life?
Symbols, You Say? – 400 This is what the abbey represents in “Masque of the Red Death.”
What are the restrictions that keep poor people away from wealthy people OR a false sense of safety that the wealthy have in their success to hide from life’s problems?
Symbols, You Say? – 500 This is what the people at Prince Prospero’s abbey represent.
What are the people who blindly follow others in society rather than thinking for themselves OR the people who pretend together that they can cheat death or avoid pain in life?
What You Say? – 100 This is the Romantic connection Gavin DeGraw is making in the statement: “I don’t wanna be anything other than what I’ve been tryin’ to be lately”.
What is a connection to independence?
What You Say? – 200 This is what Emerson is praising or criticizing in the statement: “To be great is to be misunderstood”.
What is criticizing conformity OR praising independence?
What You Say? – 300 This is what Thoreau is specifically angry that the US government is doing when he discusses: “That government is best which governs the least”.
What is slavery OR the Mexican War?
What You Say? – 400 This is how Emerson’s idea that “Envy is ignorance” is connected to the Romantic concept of the supernatural.
What is his belief that when humans want to be different than who or what they are made to be by God, they are displaying their foolishness?
What You Say? – 500 This is the reason Emerson’s statement “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind” would be seen as controversial.
What is because he suggests that what religions call sacred may not actually be sacred?
Say What, Again? – 100 This is the person who wrote about a “happy and dauntless and sagacious” person with “eccentric yet august taste”.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Say What, Again? – 200 This is the person who wrote: “It matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.”
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Say What, Again? – 300 This is the person who wrote: “To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Say What, Again? – 400 This is what readers should understand is Poe’s purpose for the unknown masked figure’s clothes being “untenanted by any tangible form” in the end of his story.
What is because it death is not tangible OR cannot be stopped by human efforts?
Say What, Again? – 500 This is the criticism inherent in Poe’s idea from the courtiers that “the external world could take care of itself.”
What is a criticism of selfish leaders OR greedy people OR of the wealthy?
FINAL JEOPARDY
Make a Jeopardy question from our readings to stump your opponents.