Assess the style, tone, and content of the following passage and determine if it is the work of an American Romantic or American Realist. “But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.” (1 point) Responses American Romantic American Romantic American Realist American Realist
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This passage exhibits the style, tone, and content of an American Romantic. The descriptive language and emphasis on nature's beauty and sympathy are characteristic of the Romantic movement. The mention of the prisoner and the condemned criminal also reflects the Romantic focus on individual freedom and the human condition.