Romantic Time Period Word Scramble
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| Romanticism 18th/19th century | Emphasis on imagination, feeling, intuition; idea that the world can be explained or understood through reliance on these tools of reason. |
| Gothic | Free, wild, primitive, barbaric. Think dark points and arches, vault effects. |
| Gothic Novel | Magic, mystery, chilvary. Horrors abound. |
| Orientalism | A quality of thought or expression associated with the Orient or even Israel or Greece. "Foreign" |
| Oriental Tale | A work set in some Eastern Exotic Place. Think Aladdin. |
| Romantic Criticism | The assumption that if you do not understand Shakespeare (for example) it is your own fault, his work is perfect. |
| Romantic Epic | Long narrative poem that combined medieval romance with classic epic. |
| Romantic Novel | Strong action often based in love, adventure,combat. More concerned with action than character, more fictional than legendary. |
| Romantic Period in American Literature | 1830-1865 America's first great creative period. After the civil war. Romantic poetry, symbolic novels and Philosophical essays. |
| Sturm and Drang | Revolt from the conventions of french classism. Characterized by fervor, enthusiasm, restlessness, portrayal of great passion and reliance on emotional and spirtitual struggles. |
| Sublime | A thing of spirit, leaping from writer to reader. 5 aspects: great thoughts, noble feelings, lofty figures of speech, diction, arrangement. |
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