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CLEP American Literature
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1. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Norman Mailer
Anne Sexton
Robert Frost
2. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
John Winthrop
Jack Kerouac
Booker T. Washington
Henry David Thoreau
3. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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4. 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
James Thurbur
T.S Eliot
John Smith
Three main colonial era poets
5. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Puritan Poetry
Edward Teller
Jack Kerouac
The 3 primary literary genres
6. 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
William Byrd
Bret Harte
Stanza
Epic Story
7. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Calvinism
John Adams
8. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Emily Dickinson
Ralph Ellison
Melting Pot
Loaded Words
9. (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
Richard Wright
Thomas Morton
Loss of Traditional Values
Rhyme Scheme
10. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Emile Zola
Narrative Poem
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Norman Mailer
11. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Rhyme Scheme
James Thurbur
James Fenimore Cooper
Thomas Paine
12. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Free Verse
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Edward Teller
Sylvia Plath
13. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Prose
Wonders of the Invisible World
Booker T. Washington
Abigail Adams
14. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Erica Jong
Racialism
W.E.B Du Bois
Melting Pot
15. 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
The Declaration of Independence
The 3 primary literary genres
Realism
16. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Realism
Frank Norris
Foot
Herman Melville
17. 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.
Rhyme Scheme
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
e.e cummings
Langston Hughes
18. Won the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize - Works focused on the South - Wrote 'As I Lay Dying -' 'Sanctuary -' and 'The sound and the Fury.' Experimented with Stream of Consciousness writing. Considered the most innovative novelist of his time.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Cotton Mather
Prose
William Faulkner
19. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Gwendolyn Brooks
Racialism
Epic Story
Allen Ginsberg
20. Well-known humorists.
Epic Story
Darwinism
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Claude McKay
21. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atavism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ballad
22. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Rhyme
Melting Pot
Transcendentalism
W.E.B Du Bois
23. 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.
Transcendental Club
Vachel Lindsay
Rhyme
Kate Chopin
24. (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
Puritan Poetry
Jack Kerouac
Lyres
Samuel Sewall
25. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Robert Frost
Loss of Traditional Values
John Smith
John Steinbeck
26. (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
Kate Chopin
William Bradford
Genteel Tradition
Polemic
27. 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.
Vachel Lindsay
Frederick Douglass
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Frank Norris
28. The reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some distant ancestor that have not been present in intervening generations - such as hand like a hairy paw.
Atavism
Lyres
Racialism
Determinism
29. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Langston Hughes
Monologue
Determinism
30. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Aphorisms
Willa Cather
Claude McKay
Gwendolyn Brooks
31. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Frank Norris
American Adam
Maya Angelou
John Steinbeck
32. 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
Transcendentalism
Aphorisms
Romanticism
Alice Walker
33. (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
Scan
James Weldon Johnson
Polemic
34. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Jean Toomer
Theodore Dreiser
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Free Verse
35. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Kate Chopin
American Adam
Booker T. Washington
36. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
American Adam
John Adams
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bret Harte
37. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Declaration of Independence
Abigail Adams
Washington Irving
38. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Atavism
Samuel Sewall
Willa Cather
Allen Ginsberg
39. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Iambic Pentameter
Countee Cullen
Poetry
Dorthy Parker
40. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Darwinism
Erica Jong
Robert Lowell
Free Verse
41. 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.
Jean Toomer
Edward Teller
Transcendentalism
Nativism
42. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Scan
Phillip Roth
Lyric Poem
Polemic
43. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Poetry
Samuel Sewall
Stanza
Richard Wright
44. '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
Ernest Hemmingway
Modernism
Verse
Sylvia Plath
45. 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.
Zora Neal Hurston
Determinism
Toni Morrison
The Day of Doom
46. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Herman Melville
e.e cummings
Ballad
Darwinism
47. 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'
Narrative Poem
Maya Angelou
The Declaration of Independence
Toni Morrison
48. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Stephen Crane
Polemic
Drama
Atavism
49. 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.
Dorthy Parker
Robert Frost
Henry James
Aphorisms
50. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Henry David Thoreau
Lyric Poem
Robert Frost
Prose