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The Romanticism period in North American literature was a period of deep feelings, nature apology, emotions, and individualism. This, 
among other aspects, can be clearly seen in the poems of Ralph Waldo Emmerson and Walt Whitman. Associate the items, author and 
characteristics that appear in their works:
I- Ralph Waldo Emmerson.
II- Walt Whitman.
( ) The flower represents beauty in all its aspects.
( ) His poetry, which was very clear and written in an accessible language, was addressed to the common people.
( ) Nature, liberty, democracy ideal, individualism were some of the topics he treated in his poems.
( ) Actually, he mastered the essay's gender, but also produced some enchanting poetry.
Check the right sequence:
A II - I - I - II.
B I - II - II - I.
C II - II - II - I.
D I - I - II - II.
Consider this excerpt of "Life in the Iron Mills", issued in 1861:
"Is this the end?
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O Life, as futile, then, as frail! 
What hope of answer or redress?"
Analyze se statements below and the relation existing (or not) between them:
I- With this work the author shows a somber side of real life. 
BECAUSE 
II- "Life in the iron mills" is considered a transition work in north-american Realism
Check the right answer:
FONTE: KURAN, Wendi. Becoming America. OER, 2019, p. 300.
A I is a true statement and II is a true statementthere is no relation between them.
B I is a true statement and II is a true statement, II justifies I.
C I is a true statement and II is a false statement.
D I is a true statement and II is a true statement, I justifies II.
America represented for many pillgrims the accomplishment of a dream, the search of a place where a new life could be started, away 
from oppression and the harrash conditions of life that they fled in Europe. This new life and way of living they were allowed to start on the 
other side of the Atlantic Ocean provided them with some feelings and manners to conceive the world. Check the CORRECT answer, among 
the possibilities given bellow, the one best suits this new way:
A A more natural way of life, as human beings are nature oriented in their everyday´s life.
B A symbolic way of life, because for each impression corresponds an image.
C Being romantic because of the great amount of poets in England.
D Individualism which is not exactly focused on being selfish and egoistic, but independent.
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Read the following excert of poema:
IN 1 May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, 
I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, 
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, 
To please the desert and the sluggish brook. 
The purple petals, fallen in the pool, 
Made the black water with their beauty gay. 
What does it refer to, preciselly? Check the CORRECT answer:
FONTE: https://www.bartleby.com/370/15.html. Acesso em: 1º jul. 2019.
A It refers to a flower in the woods.
B It refers to one of the characteristics of romanticism, which is the moon.
C It refers to a flower, but also to discuss the beauty of nature
D It refers to the north-american poets.
In Walden a series of themes are present. Read the following excert: 
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only
the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and
not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what
was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was
quite necessary". 
Mark T for True and F for False:
( ) Life in the walden is better than life in the city, which is not life at all.
( ) Life is not a pleasant think.
( ) Meditation is the only subject in this excert.
( ) Escaping is the point here: escape to live deliberately.
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Check the CORRECT answer:
FONTE: https://www.bartleby.com/370/15.html. Acesso em: 1º jul. 2019.
A F - F - F - T.
B T - T - F - F.
C F - F - T - F.
D T - F - F - T.
Literature worldwide tends to present a switching according to a whole set of reasons. North-American literature also follows this 
switching in movements, according to multiple reasons such as the historical period, influences from European ideas, changing of mentalities, 
etc. Analyze the following authors and works:
I- Ralph Waldo Emmerson - Rhodora.
II- Frank Norris - Mc Teague.
III- Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin.
IV- Rebecca Harding Davis - Life in the Iron Mills.
Relate these authors and their works to the corresponding characteristics of each period of the North-American literature:
( ) Behavior is determined by innate and/or inherited tendencies of the individual.
( ) Nature, feelings, expression of emotion and personal characteristics, exaltation.
( ) Expression of a specific reality, reproducing speech, dialects, individualities of a specific region.
( ) Under the influence of Honoré de Balzac, the life of people is shown so as it is in society, like a portrait.
Check the right answer:
A II - IV - I - III.
B IV - III - II - I.
C II - I - III - IV.
D I - IV - III - II.
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Read the following excerpt from the poem: "A Bird, came down the walk", from Emily Dickinson:
A Bird came down the Walk 
- He did not know I saw 
- He bit an Angleworm in halves 
And ate the fellow, raw, 
And then he drank a Dew 
From a convenient Grass 
- And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass - [...]
Analyze the statements below, which refer to the excerpt of Dickinson:
I- This excerpt of poem is a good representative of the north-american Romanticism and Transcendentalism mouvements.
BECAUSE
II- Elements of nature, emotions, a certain escape from reality are present.
Check the right answer:
FONTE: KURAN, Wendi. Becoming America. OER, 2019, p. 1490.
A I is a true statement and II is a true statement, II justifies I.
B I is a true statement and II is a true statementthere is no relation between them.
C I is a true statement and II is a false statement.
D I is a true statement and II is a true statement, I justifies II.
Read the following excerpt, taken from "Life in the iron mills", By Rebecca Harding Davis: 
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"A cloudy day: do you know what that is in a town of iron-works? The sky sank down before dawn, muddy, flat, immovable. The air is thick, 
clammy with the breath of crowded human beings. It stifles me. I open the window, and, looking out, can scarcely see through the rain the 
grocer's shop opposite, where a crowd of drunken Irishmen are puffing Lynchburg tobacco in their pipes. I can detect the scent through all the 
foul smells ranging loose in the air".
FONTE: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/876/876-h/876-h.htm. Acesso em: 12 abr. 2020
Check the right answer:
A In the excerpt, it is possible to preview what the short story is about, by the vocabulary carefully chosen since the very beginning.
B The excerpt of the story focuses on the hard work conditions of women in the mill.
C This short story is representative of Romanticism in North-American Literature.
D The narrator is not aware of what really happens in the story, that's why he asks a question since the very beginning.
Read the following excert from the poem Rhodora, by Ralph Waldo Emmerson:
Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 
About Beauty, check the CORRECT answer:
FONTE: https://www.bartleby.com/370/15.html.Acesso em: 1º jul. 2019.
A Beauty is not seen with the eyes.
B Beauty is the only reason for the flower to exist, and it's enough by itself.
C The sages don't know what beauty really is.
D Beauty doesn't need to exist.
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Nathanael Hawthorn is the author of the novel The Scarlet Letter. In this book, some characters represent different subjects which were 
of great importance for the American of those times. In a novel, different subjects are presented and discussed, according to the story, the 
characters, the way of moving ahead the story. Was this the case for The Scarlet Letter? Read the following statements and check the relation 
there is between them:
I- Psychological anguish is a constant in the novel.
BECAUSE
II- From the beginning of the story and the prison of Hester puritanism and its values appear.
Check the CORRECT answer:
A I is a true statement, and II is not.
B I and II are false.
C I and II are true, and II is complementary to I.
D I is a false statement, and II is a true one.
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