A major source of these generative ideas was an intellectual movement that was neither a religion or philosophy nor a literary theory, although it had elements of all three. Transcendentalism is the view that the basic truths of the universe lie beyond the knowledge we obtain from our world, and ...

1. Clearly stated topic sentence. 2. Clearly stated characteristics in individual sentences 3. Clearly stated support of the characteristics 4. Correct spelling The excerpt from The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper is a good example of Romanticism. The first characteris...