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CLEP American Literature

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






2. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language






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






4. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'






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






6. Wrote 'Grapes of Wrath -' 'Of Mice and Men -' and 'East of Eden -' and 'Winter of Our Discontent.' Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature - Pulitzer and and the National Book Award.






7. All events follow natural laws.






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






9. (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






10. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.






11. End : occurs when words at the ends of lines of poetry rhyme. Internal: occurs when words within a sentences share the same sound - such as 'Each narrow cell in which we dwell.'






12. Local Colorist Wrote 'The Country of the Pointed Firs' Famous for use of idiomatic language - conservative values and imagery and vivid descriptions of rural New England.






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






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






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






16. Wrote 'Richard Cory' - Created poems dealing with historic myths and characters. Known primarily for short - ironic characteristics of ordinary individuals. Won 3 Pulitzers : 'Collected Poems -' 'The Man Who Died Twice -' and 'Tristram'






17. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.






18. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.






19. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot






20. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.






21. (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






22. 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






23. Ranked as top American novelist - even though few of his contemporaries recognized his genius. Moby Dick is considered to be America's greatest prose epic. It is also top contender for best American novel. Wrote the first great romance about the Sout






24. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.






25. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'






26. 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






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






28. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'






29. 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.






30. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.






31. 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.






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






33. Clever - memorable sayings.






34. First great writer of psychological fiction; obsessed with sin and guilt. 'The Scarlet Letter' - 'Young Goodman Brown' - Claimed his work was romance and therefore not required to be realistic.






35. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.






40. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'






41. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.






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






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






44. 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'






45. (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






46. 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.






47. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.






48. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.






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






50. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.

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