Literary Focus: Transcendentalism and Romanticism Vocabulary

an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe a subject

• free verse

• allegory

• allusion

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

poetry that does not rhyme and does not have regular meter

• Romanticism

• Trancendentalism

• free verse

• quatrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization

• Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

• Industrialism

• Reflectionism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship

• agrarianism

• capitalism

• communism

• industrialism

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material

• Symbolism

• Industrialism

• Transcendentalism

• Romanticism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

people in the 19th century who created Transcendentalism

• Romantics

• Transcendental Club

• Capitalist Club

• Industrialist Club

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

the use of concrete objects to represent abstract ideas or qualities

• Symbiosis

• Symbolism

• Semantics

• Symbiant

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A