Romantic Unit Summative Assessment Study Guide
Directions: Work in small groups of no more than three and use your notes, activities from this
unit and unit two of the text book, (including the biographical information on each of the authors
before their pieces) to synthesize the information on the elements/concepts listed below. If you
complete this and study the information you will do very well on the assessment that will
constitute 35% of your quarter grade thus far, SO STUDY!
Romanticism & Fireside Poets
 The place of origin of the Romantic movement
 The time period the Romantic movement spanned
 Core values of the romantics
 Identify the Fireside Poets & their key works
Transcendentalism
 Transcendental beliefs regarding humanity/human nature
 Founding writer & philosopher of Transcendental movement & key works
 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s beliefs & inspirations (s)
 Ideals/themes within “Walden”
 Thoreau’s beliefs regarding Government as seen in “Civil Disobedience”
Dark Romanticism/ The Gothic’s
 Key components of Dark Romanticism
 Inspiration of Poe’s writing (biographical)
 Key gothic/dark romantic authors
 Key gothic/dark romantic elements within literature (literary features)
Romantic Literary Features
 Definition of allegory & the allegorical works we studied (identify what makes them
allegorical)
 Define & provide a textual example from one of the works studied in this unit for each of
the following literary devices:
o Satire
o Imagery
o Theme
o Personification
o Mood
o Alliteration
o Simile
o Tone