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CLEP American Literature

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1. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.






2. (Colonial Period) Stands in direct opposition to the principles - personalities and literary styles of William Bradford and John Winthrop. Did not come to settle the land and establish God's Kingdom - but to trade beaver pelts and live pleasantly. Es






3. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'






4. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.






5. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'






6. Prose - Poetry - Drama






7. Imagist Poet - Wrote 'In a Station of the Metro -' ' The Pisan Cantos -' 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberly -' and 'Mauberly.' Modeled 'Cantos' after Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' - Infamous traitor; Staunch supporter of Mussolini during WWII. Didn't speak for the






8. The repeated use of identical sounds.






9. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.






10. (Colonial Period) Wrote Of Plymouth Plantation (First Thanksgiving) - Chronicled the Pilgrim experience from the religious considerations that caused them to leave England for Holland and then for America.Style is dignified and Grave - and events are






11. All events follow natural laws.






12. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.






13. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac






14. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.






15. 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.






16. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.






17. A stanza.






18. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart






19. '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






20. 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






21. Well-known humorists.






22. 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






23. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.






24. (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






25. Major theme of 20th Century literature.






26. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical






27. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'






28. Written by Michael Wigglesworth - the most famous poem of 17th Century - proceeds from judgement day to hell and then to paradise. First American Best Seller.






29. 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.






30. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.






31. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.






32. Chicago School : Verses often concern ordinary - everyday people; realistic poems and dramatic emphasis attract a large audience. Wrote 'Chicago -' and a biography of Abraham Lincoln. Poems describe everyday Americans - have a positive tone - use sim






33. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.






34. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.






35. Applying the evolutionary 'survival of the fittest' concept to a world marked by struggle and competition. (Promulgated by Herbert Spencer - a best-selling sociologist of the late 19th Century.






36. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman






37. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP






38. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.






39. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.






40. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.






41. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature






42. Resisted materialism and chose a life of simplicity - close to nature. Walden is a guidebook for life - showing the reader how to live wisely in a world designed to make wise living impossible. 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience' has become a primer






43. Chicago School - Wrote 'Lucinda Matlock' - Created 'Spoon River Anthology' - Spoon River poems are characterized by: An unpoetic - colloquial style - frank descriptions of sex - a very critical view of small town life - and a description of he inner






44. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'






45. (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






46. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet






47. 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'






48. 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






49. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.






50. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'







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