American Romanticism Traits  Valued poetry because allowed one to use imagination  Preferred youthful innocence over educated sophistication  Looked.

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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

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

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

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”  Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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.

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 – 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)