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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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.
Persona
Loss of Traditional Values
Allen Ginsberg
Frederick Douglass
2. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Beat Writers
Carl Sandburg
Free Verse
William Byrd
3. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Langston Hughes
Norman Mailer
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Saul Bellow
4. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Sonnet
John Smith
Aphorisms
Cotton Mather
5. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Stephen Crane
Narrative Poem
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Zora Neal Hurston
6. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maya Angelou
Thomas Jefferson
7. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Rhyme Scheme
Carl Sandburg
Henry David Thoreau
Willa Cather
8. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Monologue
Narrative Poem
American Adam
Nietzscheism
9. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
John Smith
Richard Wright
James Baldwin
American Adam
10. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
The 3 primary literary genres
Maya Angelou
The Declaration of Independence
Jack Kerouac
11. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Phillip Roth
Modernism
Claude McKay
Loss of Traditional Values
12. Well-known humorists.
Determinism
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Ezra Pound
Stephen Crane
13. 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.
Stanza
Drama
Monologue
e.e cummings
14. 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.'
Epic Story
The Day of Doom
Allegory
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
15. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Free Verse
Walt Whitman
Ralph Ellison
Nietzscheism
16. 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
Carl Sandburg
e.e cummings
Emily Dickinson
William Faulkner
17. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Rhyme
Darwinism
American Adam
Phillip Roth
18. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Iambic Pentameter
Aphorisms
Transcendentalism
Melting Pot
19. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Phillip Roth
W.E.B Du Bois
William Faulkner
Iambic Pentameter
20. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
J.D Salinger
Realism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vachel Lindsay
21. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Bret Harte
Sarah Orne Jewett
Ballad
William Bradford
22. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Allen Ginsberg
Claude McKay
Abigail Adams
Narrative Poem
23. (Colonial Period) 1. God is King and Ruler. 2. Our duty in this world is to see that God's will prevails.3. Man is depraved from birth. 4. Few will be saved. Damned are damned despite their best efforts. Belief in Covenant Theology : God's covenant w
Calvinism
Stephen Crane
Transcendental Club
Robert Lowell
24. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Robert Lowell
Thomas Paine
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Epic Story
25. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
James Weldon Johnson
Gwendolyn Brooks
Ernest Hemmingway
Emile Zola
26. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
John Winthrop
Refrain
e.e cummings
W.E.B Du Bois
27. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
The Day of Doom
Aphorisms
Theodore Dreiser
28. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Dreiser
Cotton Mather
Jean Toomer
29. 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
Frank Norris
Rhyme
Henry David Thoreau
Darwinism
30. Wrote gold-rush stories like 'The Luck of Roaring Camp' and 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat'; never matched up to his previous fame local colorist
Beat Writers
Toni Morrison
Bret Harte
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
31. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Scan
Herman Melville
John Smith
Willa Cather
32. 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
Robert Frost
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Edward Teller
Imagist Poetry
33. 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
Verse
Rhyme
Racialism
Walt Whitman
34. 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
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
William Faulkner
James Weldon Johnson
35. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Verse
Beat Writers
Henry James
William Byrd
36. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Richard Wright
Monologue
Jack London
37. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Foot
Monologue
Alice Walker
Free Verse
38. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Lyric Poem
Jonathan Edwards
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Racialism
39. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Beat Movement
Ralph Ellison
Jean Toomer
J.D Salinger
40. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Polemic
Lyres
Meter
41. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Kate Chopin
Rhythm
Modernism
Ralph Ellison
42. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Allen Ginsberg
Alice Walker
Stanza
Narrative Poem
43. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Broadside
John Smith
Loaded Words
Aphorisms
44. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Ballad
Rhythm
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Adams
45. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Drama
Countee Cullen
Loaded Words
Genteel Tradition
46. Typically referred to as the greatest American novelist (next to Mark Twain) of the second half of the 19th century. Main theme of his work was the innocence and exuberance of America compared to the corruption and wisdom of Europe. Wrote 'The Portra
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Richard Wright
Henry James
Frank Norris
47. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Sonnet
John Winthrop
James Baldwin
William Byrd
48. (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
Bret Harte
Jack Kerouac
John Winthrop
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
49. 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
Transcendental Club
Langston Hughes
William Faulkner
Edith Wharton
50. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Henry David Thoreau
Rhyme
Monologue
T.S Eliot