1. Abby Crum, Sarah Heller, Kaylen Blanco, and Liz Studebaker
Romanticism
Abby Crum, Sarah Heller, Kaylen Blanco, and Liz Studebaker

2. How is it defined? Artistic, literary, and musical movement
Originated in Europe
New appreciation for medieval romance, hence the name "Romanticism"
Had a lot of variety in style, theme, and content
Values: imagination over reason, emotions over logic, intuition over science
Refuted values of the Enlightenment
Focused more on the individual than on society

3. How is the literary impact/ Trends in prominent literary devices employed within the time period properly explained?
Metaphor
Imagery 
Allusion 
Personification 
Paradox
Rhyme Scheme 
These literary devices make sense in regard to the time period because the romantic era really focused on emotion, imagination, nature, optimism, and the "golden age" of children.

4. How are the author and author's work influenced by the time period?
Popular authors of the time: Victor Hugo Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen, Mary Shelly, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Brontë
Some of these authors were influenced by the work of the authors in the generation before them.
Their work was influenced by the French Revolution, specifically its promise of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.
Humanitarianism was developing around this time and was a big theme in the work of many authors.
Tried to show the dignity, goodness, and worth of an average man.

5. Fun facts
Oliver Wendell Holmes incorporated medicine and poetry together.
He is attributed with the naming of anesthesia.
Washington Irving was the First International American literature celebrity.
The first American novelist was James Fenimore Cooper.
No other time period had a greater variety of works.

6. Frankenstein
One of the most famous pieces of literature that was made during the romanticism era was "Frankenstein," written by Mary Shelly.
This is a short video that gives a basic idea of this fundamental piece of literature.
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7. Works cited
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8. A Dream Within a Dream By: Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?