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CLEP American Literature
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1. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Genteel Tradition
Gwendolyn Brooks
Iambic Pentameter
Foot
2. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
e.e cummings
Three main colonial era poets
Emile Zola
Poetry
3. Wrote 'since feeling is first -' 'somewhere i have never traveled - gladly beyond -' and 'The Enormous Room' - Experimented with : form - punctuation - spelling - typography - grammar - imagery - rhythm - and syntax.
Persona
Sonnet
e.e cummings
The Day of Doom
4. Wrote 'The House of Mirth -' and 'The Age of Innocence' most famous for 'Ethan Frome' Noted use of indirection and allusion. First women to win a Pulitzer for 'The Age of Innocence' Main themes were upper-class life and the constraints it placed on b
Social Darwinism
Ernest Hemmingway
Edith Wharton
Edward Teller
5. Considered the greatest humorist of 19th century American Literature. Wrote 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' Master of 'Local Color' writing. Used vernacular - exaggeration and deadpan narrator to create humor.
Ballad
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Maya Angelou
Sarah Orne Jewett
6. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Poetry
Alice Walker
Broadside
Racialism
7. Credited with creating: the modern short story and the detective novel - and the entire genre of mystery. Wrote 'The Philosophy of Composition' - 'The Raven' - 'Tell-Tale Heart -' 'The Cask of Amontillado -' and 'The Gold Bug.' (The first detective
Dorthy Parker
Genteel Tradition
Booker T. Washington
Edgar Allen Poe
8. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Cotton Mather
Kate Chopin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ballad
9. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Gwendolyn Brooks
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry David Thoreau
Loss of Traditional Values
10. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Scan
Maya Angelou
Abigail Adams
Loaded Words
11. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Edward Teller
Samuel Sewall
Beat Writers
12. She holds a unique place in American history as both the wife of one president and the mother of another. In her own right - she was an ardent American patriot. Her perseverance during the American Revolution kept her family together and enabled her
Social Darwinism
Nietzscheism
Walt Whitman
Abigail Adams
13. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Three main colonial era poets
Thomas Jefferson
e.e cummings
Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Meter
John Steinbeck
Lyric Poem
15. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Jonathan Edwards
Alice Walker
Henry James
Transcendentalism
16. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Loss of Traditional Values
Willa Cather
Frederick Douglass
17. In the 1920s - became the symbol of the liberated woman for her wit and independence. Known for her caustic and clever poems and short stories.
Dorthy Parker
Carl Sandburg
Drama
Wonders of the Invisible World
18. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Foot
Polemic
Calvinism
Booker T. Washington
19. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Social Darwinism
Anne Sexton
Norman Mailer
Maya Angelou
20. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
James Weldon Johnson
Norman Mailer
Free Verse
e.e cummings
21. All events follow natural laws.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Determinism
Scientism
Persona
22. An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th Century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature - emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination - departure from the attitudes and forms of
Drama
The Day of Doom
Romanticism
Anne Sexton
23. 'The Old Man and the Sea -' 'The Sun Also Rises -' 'A Farewell to Arms -' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Writing style emphasizes: Short sentences - brief paragraphs - active verbs - authenticity - compression - clarity - and immediacy. Produced some
Ernest Hemmingway
William S. Burroughs
William Byrd
Ralph Ellison
24. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Polemic
Persona
Abigail Adams
Lyric Poem
25. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Vachel Lindsay
Three main colonial era poets
Frank Norris
John Adams
26. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Abigail Adams
Persona
27. The Bard of Harlem; most successful black writer in America during the Harlem Renaissance. Wanted to capture the dominant oral traditions of black culture in written form. Best known for his poetry: 'The Weary Blues -' 'Fields of Wonder -' and 'The D
Loss of Traditional Values
Maya Angelou
Beat Movement
Langston Hughes
28. The repeated use of identical sounds.
American Adam
Rhyme
Booker T. Washington
Refrain
29. The belief that 'true' Americans were those of earlier Anglo-Saxon descent - and that this 'race' was under threat from the growing influx of Central European and Asian immigrants.
Maya Angelou
Theodore Dreiser
American Adam
Nativism
30. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Iambic Pentameter
Loss of Traditional Values
William S. Burroughs
Theodore Dreiser
31. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Phillip Roth
Beat Writers
William Faulkner
Nathaniel Hawthorne
32. Book of feline poems - 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats -' formed the basis of the Broadway hit 'Cats.' Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Published 'The Waste-Land' which became the most famous poem of the first half of the 20th Centur
American Adam
Calvinism
Ezra Pound
T.S Eliot
33. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Loaded Words
Emile Zola
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Theodore Dreiser
34. Wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' - first American novel to sell a million copies. The most influential book of the 19th century. Credited with starting the Civil War. Most famous American woman of her day.
Jack London
Lyres
James Baldwin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
35. An organization of the leading transcendentalists living around Boston. They were interested in new developments in theology - philosophy - and literature. Major writers: Ripley - Emerson - Alcott - Fuller - Hawthorne - Thoreau - Channing - Hedge - P
Lyres
Saul Bellow
Transcendental Club
Bret Harte
36. (Colonial Period) Primarily written to set forth orthodox Calvinist Christianity. Not considered the best representation of poetry during the whole period. Rarely approached excellence of English models. Too much of an emphasis on heavenly values and
Puritan Poetry
Benjamin Franklin
Free Verse
Genteel Tradition
37. Wrote 'The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.' Escaped slave that became one o f the most effective orators of his day - an influential newspaper writer - a militant abolitionist - and a famous diplomat.
Edgar Allen Poe
Frederick Douglass
Genteel Tradition
Poetry
38. Clever - memorable sayings.
Saul Bellow
William Faulkner
Aphorisms
Romanticism
39. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Scientism
Calvinism
Jean Toomer
Jack Kerouac
40. Wished to return to more primitive principles - to simplicity - sobriety - religious earnestness - and personal self-control. Aim was to purify church of England from 'Popery' - Persecuted harshly by Charles I and Archbishop of Canterbury William Lau
Three main colonial era poets
Blank Verse
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Robert Lowell
41. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Beat Movement
Booker T. Washington
Loss of Traditional Values
42. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Ballad
Ezra Pound
John Winthrop
Gwendolyn Brooks
43. Local Colorist Wrote 'The Awakening' Writing is memorable for its : Vivid and economical style - Rich Local Dialect - and Penetrating view of the culture of South Louisiana.
The 3 primary literary genres
Kate Chopin
Maya Angelou
John Smith
44. (Colonial Period) One of colonial New England's most eminent clergyman. Greatest achievement was as an historian of the Puritan experience. 'Diary of Cotton Mather' - Account of Mather wrestling with sexual temptation to marry a much younger women di
Cotton Mather
Claude McKay
William Faulkner
Vachel Lindsay
45. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Persona
Rhythm
Jack London
Frank Norris
46. (Colonial Period) Began 'The History of New England' aboard the Arbella in 1630. Lead 2 -000 English emigrant to Massachusetts Bay. Made daily journal-style entries until his death. Intended it to be an account of his long governorship. Style is pla
Zora Neal Hurston
John Winthrop
Saul Bellow
Prose
47. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Benjamin Franklin
Free Verse
Richard Wright
Modernism
48. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Nietzscheism
Lyric Poem
Benjamin Franklin
James Baldwin
49. Won the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize - Works focused on the South - Wrote 'As I Lay Dying -' 'Sanctuary -' and 'The sound and the Fury.' Experimented with Stream of Consciousness writing. Considered the most innovative novelist of his time.
Norman Mailer
William Faulkner
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mayflower Compact
50. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Erica Jong
Verse
Allen Ginsberg
Ezra Pound