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…showed last 75 words of 339 total…ethnic cultural origins, and the medieval era; and had a fascination with the exotic, the mysterious, the weird, the occult, the monstrous, and the diseased. The Romantic movement in literature took hold in Europe, the United States, and Latin America and lasting from about 1750 to about 1870. Romanticism not only affected literature but spread to painting, music, and architecture. Words and phrases: puritanism, predestination, repentance, hypocrisy, magistrate, beadle, martyr, illegitimate, imp; retribution, scaffold, ghastly, ransomed, piety.