HUM 2234 Chapter 27 – Flashcards

Exalting the natural landscape as the source of sublime inspiration and moral truth, Wordsworth and his English contemporaries initiated the ________ movement.

The part of the plot that wraps up any lose ends after the climax is called ______?

John Constable's paintings usually focus on

The author who retreated to isolated Walden Pond in Massachusetts to write what he called "a handbook for living" was

One of the major developments discussed in this chapter that significantly transformed nineteenth-century Europe was

It was among Western romantics that the ________ became an independent and publicly acclaimed subject in the visual arts.

In the excerpt from Shen Fu's Six Chapters from a Floating Life, the major activity being described is

According to the text, which of the following statements is TRUE?

An aspect of the romantic fascination with unspoiled nature and "natural man" in America was the portrayal of Native Americans by the painter

The rhetorical question "What immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry?" was written by _____?

________ proposed a dialectical model according to which all reality, all history, and all ideas progressed toward perfect freedom.

The following Literary Excerpt was created by which of the following writers? "And what shoulder, & what art. Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? . . . . . . When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"

The following Literary Excerpt was created by which of the following writers? "O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

The following Literary Excerpt was created by which of the following writers? "Every year, in the autumn, I became completely devoted to the chrysanthemum. I loved to arrange the cut flowers in vases but did not like the potted plants. Not that I did not think the potted plants beautiful, but our house having no garden, it was impossible for me to grow the plants myself, and those for sale at the market were overgrown and untrained; not at all what I would have chosen. One day, as I was sweeping my ancestral graves in the hills, I found some very unusual stones with interesting streaks and lines running through them. I talked to Yuen about them when I went home."

The antithesis: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" was written by ______?

According to the text, which of the following statements about Native Americans is FALSE?

Romanticism was a reaction against all the following except

In the excerpt from Shen Fu's Six Chapters from a Floating Life, the major activity being described is

________ compared the elemental forces of nature with the creative powers of the poet.

he rhetorical question "What immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry?" was written by _____?

The following Literary Excerpt was created by which of the following writers? "Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened Earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"