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CLEP American Literature
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1. Wrote 'The Red Badge of Courage' and 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets -' and 'The Open Boat.' Red Badge of Courage is considered the first modern war novel. Work is celebrated for its images and symbolism. Work is often described as impressionist due t
Maya Angelou
Stephen Crane
Sarah Orne Jewett
Thomas Morton
2. Well-known humorists.
James Baldwin
Dorthy Parker
Determinism
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
3. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Bret Harte
Foot
Calvinism
Robert Frost
4. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
e.e cummings
Melting Pot
James Thurbur
Edward Teller
5. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Narrative Poem
Walt Whitman
Naturalism
John Smith
6. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
John Winthrop
Robert Lowell
Langston Hughes
Anne Sexton
7. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Richard Wright
Sylvia Plath
Ezra Pound
Nativism
8. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Naturalism
John Winthrop
Free Verse
Emily Dickinson
9. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Mayflower Compact
Willa Cather
T.S Eliot
Nietzscheism
10. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Thomas Paine
John Steinbeck
Modernism
Narrative Poem
11. 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.
Nativism
American Adam
Stanza
Bret Harte
12. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Theodore Dreiser
W.E.B Du Bois
John Winthrop
Stanza
13. Work did not have a political agenda. Wrote 'Their Eyes Were Watching God -' 'Mules and Men -' and 'Jonahs Gourd Vine.' Considered one of the key black writers of the 20th Century.
Zora Neal Hurston
The Declaration of Independence
e.e cummings
Harriet Beecher Stowe
14. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Iambic Pentameter
Beat Writers
Rhythm
Carl Sandburg
15. Pilgrim's constitution. Shaped the politics - religion - and social behavior of the first settlers. Eventually influenced the shape - style and content of the U.S Constitution. William Bradford was famous for being one of the authors and signers.
Transcendental Club
Nietzscheism
Persona
Mayflower Compact
16. Wrote 'Songs of Jamaica' - Poetry and 'Harlem Shadows' (first great literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance. Much of his poetry evokes the rich heritage of Jamaica.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Claude McKay
Iambic Pentameter
Edward Teller
17. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Vachel Lindsay
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Racialism
18. A stanza.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Verse
Countee Cullen
Allen Ginsberg
19. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
John Adams
Transcendentalism
The Declaration of Independence
Frank Norris
20. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Norman Mailer
Rhyme Scheme
William Byrd
Rhyme
21. (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
Broadside
Meter
Washington Irving
22. Created the first American adventure story. First successful American novelist. 'Father of the American novel.' Very litigious - cranky and vain. Most famous for the 'Leatherstocking Tales': A series of five novels about the frontiersman - Natty Bump
Melting Pot
Mary Wilkins Freeman
William Faulkner
James Fenimore Cooper
23. Created new poetic forms and subjects to fashion a distinctly American type of poetic expression. Rejected conventional themes - traditional literary references - allusions - and rhymes. Used long lines to capture rhythms of natural speech - free ver
William Byrd
Walt Whitman
Edith Wharton
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
24. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Alice Walker
Thomas Paine
The 3 primary literary genres
Maya Angelou
25. First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Novel focus on black cultural identity in contemporary America. Wrote 'The Bluest Eye -' 'Tar Baby -' and 'Beloved'
James Fenimore Cooper
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Robert Frost
26. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
American Adam
Edith Wharton
Iambic Pentameter
Flannery O'Connor
27. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Free Verse
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
T.S Eliot
Melting Pot
28. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jonathan Edwards
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
James Weldon Johnson
29. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Frank Norris
Stanza
Stephen Crane
Puritan Poetry
30. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Langston Hughes
Meter
Persona
Emile Zola
31. Literary movement of the 19th century that traced the effects of heredity and environment on people who ere helpless to change their situations. Also called Determinism for its belief in the effects of environment - heredity - and chance on human fat
Naturalism
W.E.B Du Bois
Prose
Mary Wilkins Freeman
32. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Gwendolyn Brooks
Rhythm
Countee Cullen
Realism
33. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Dorthy Parker
Robert Lowell
Drama
Melting Pot
34. Recluse - agoraphobic - Didn't title her poems. All are designated by numbers. Paved the way for the Imagist movement of the 1920s. Considered on of the founders of Modern American Poetry. Concrete imagery - forceful language - and unique style usher
Emily Dickinson
Henry James
Claude McKay
Jack London
35. American novelist - essayist - social critic - painter and spoken performer. Most of his works are autobiographical. Frequently experimented with drugs. He wrote the 'Naked Lunch' and the 'Cities of Red Night'
William S. Burroughs
Edgar Lee Masters
James Thurbur
Meter
36. 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
Thomas Paine
Walt Whitman
T.S Eliot
Ralph Ellison
37. Father of American Literature - First American writer to achieve an international reputation. Rip Van Winkle (antihero). Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Devil and Tom Walker. Was 50 years old before his real name appeared on any of his books. Used alias
Washington Irving
Refrain
Ralph Ellison
Carl Sandburg
38. A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's - in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature - and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter - intuiti
Lyres
Jonathan Edwards
Allen Ginsberg
Transcendentalism
39. 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
Emily Dickinson
T.S Eliot
John Steinbeck
Abigail Adams
40. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Jack London
Blank Verse
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rhythm
41. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Drama
Epic Story
Henry James
Prose
42. 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
Romanticism
Kate Chopin
William Bradford
Monologue
43. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Aphorisms
Loaded Words
Kate Chopin
American Adam
44. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Nativism
Alice Walker
William S. Burroughs
Ballad
45. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Willa Cather
Wonders of the Invisible World
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Zora Neal Hurston
46. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
William Faulkner
Scientism
John Steinbeck
Gwendolyn Brooks
47. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Abigail Adams
James Thurbur
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Day of Doom
48. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Emily Dickinson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
49. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Edward Teller
Benjamin Franklin
Willa Cather
Mary Wilkins Freeman
50. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Determinism
Nativism
Willa Cather
Poetry