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CLEP American Literature
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1. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Booker T. Washington
James Baldwin
2. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Edith Wharton
Thomas Jefferson
Transcendentalism
Henry James
3. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Richard Wright
Benjamin Franklin
Blank Verse
The Day of Doom
4. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
Abigail Adams
Gothic
James Fenimore Cooper
5. Use of medieval - wild - or mysterious elements in literature. Features gloomy settings and horrifying events. Edgar Allen Poe is regarded as the American Master of Gothic writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jack Kerouac
Calvinism
Gothic
6. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
The 3 primary literary genres
Henry James
James Weldon Johnson
Monologue
7. 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
Benjamin Franklin
Blank Verse
Samuel Sewall
8. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Monologue
Nietzscheism
Emile Zola
Melting Pot
9. 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
Beat Writers
Rhyme
Robert Frost
10. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
William Faulkner
The 3 primary literary genres
Modernism
William Byrd
11. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Thomas Paine
Saul Bellow
Free Verse
Vachel Lindsay
12. (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
Edgar Allen Poe
Frederick Douglass
Melting Pot
Puritan Poetry
13. 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
Transcendentalism
Washington Irving
Robert Lowell
Free Verse
14. 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
Puritan Poetry
Jean Toomer
William Bradford
15. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Beat Movement
Romanticism
Phillip Roth
Naturalism
16. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Poetry
Beat Writers
Countee Cullen
Nathaniel Hawthorne
17. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
William Byrd
Jack London
Emily Dickinson
Prose
18. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
The 3 primary literary genres
William Faulkner
Harriet Beecher Stowe
American Adam
19. (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
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sylvia Plath
Ballad
20. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Robert Frost
Zora Neal Hurston
Monologue
21. 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
Herman Melville
Jean Toomer
James Baldwin
Rhyme Scheme
22. 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.
Racialism
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Dorthy Parker
Abigail Adams
23. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Emile Zola
Bret Harte
Loss of Traditional Values
24. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Prose
Foot
Beat Writers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
25. 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.
Sylvia Plath
Erica Jong
Three main colonial era poets
Kate Chopin
26. 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.
Poetry
Cotton Mather
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Claude McKay
27. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Meter
Edgar Lee Masters
The Day of Doom
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
28. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
J.D Salinger
Abigail Adams
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Lowell
29. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Edith Wharton
Thomas Paine
Realism
Richard Wright
30. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
The Day of Doom
Broadside
Wonders of the Invisible World
Naturalism
31. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Polemic
Willa Cather
Washington Irving
Foot
32. 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
Emily Dickinson
Realism
Wonders of the Invisible World
33. 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.
W.E.B Du Bois
Sarah Orne Jewett
Allen Ginsberg
Dorthy Parker
34. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Saul Bellow
Alice Walker
Vachel Lindsay
Calvinism
35. All events follow natural laws.
T.S Eliot
Determinism
Melting Pot
Langston Hughes
36. 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
Ezra Pound
Free Verse
Phillip Roth
Transcendental Club
37. 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
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Maya Angelou
Abigail Adams
James Baldwin
38. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Maya Angelou
Thomas Morton
Wonders of the Invisible World
Prose
39. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
John Winthrop
Beat Writers
Robert Frost
Loaded Words
40. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Lyric Poem
Calvinism
The Day of Doom
John Winthrop
41. 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
The Declaration of Independence
The 3 primary literary genres
Toni Morrison
42. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ballad
Erica Jong
Claude McKay
Romanticism
43. Ben Franklin paid his passage to America. First Pamphlet was Common Sense : credited with getting the colonists to see the 'advantage - necessity - and obligation' of breaking with Britain. Followed by a series of pamphlets - collectively called 'An
Thomas Paine
Calvinism
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
American Adam
44. 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.'
Booker T. Washington
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Zora Neal Hurston
Herman Melville
45. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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46. Literary movement of the 19th century Presented the details of ordinary life in art. Realists rejected the heroic and adventurous and concentrated on pessimistic views of poverty - prostitution and pain. Reaction to Romanticism.
James Thurbur
Edgar Allen Poe
Realism
John Winthrop
47. 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
Ezra Pound
Edgar Allen Poe
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Stephen Crane
48. 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'
Edwin Arlington Robinson
T.S Eliot
Epic Story
Erica Jong
49. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Beat Writers
Benjamin Franklin
Iambic Pentameter
50. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Ralph Ellison
Edgar Allen Poe
Frank Norris
Walt Whitman