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CLEP American Literature
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1. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
W.E.B Du Bois
Gwendolyn Brooks
Aphorisms
William Byrd
2. 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
Emily Dickinson
Transcendentalism
Beat Writers
Mary Wilkins Freeman
3. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Genteel Tradition
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Lyres
Thomas Jefferson
4. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Ezra Pound
Saul Bellow
Realism
Jonathan Edwards
5. 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.
Kate Chopin
Calvinism
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Scientism
6. 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
Iambic Pentameter
T.S Eliot
Polemic
Puritan Poetry
7. 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'
Vachel Lindsay
Maya Angelou
William S. Burroughs
Abigail Adams
8. 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
Zora Neal Hurston
Romanticism
Social Darwinism
Polemic
9. 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.
Stephen Crane
Claude McKay
William S. Burroughs
Modernism
10. 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
Kate Chopin
Edgar Allen Poe
Jonathan Edwards
Nietzscheism
11. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Melting Pot
Broadside
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mary Wilkins Freeman
12. 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
e.e cummings
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imagist Poetry
13. Clever - memorable sayings.
Verse
Darwinism
Aphorisms
Lyric Poem
14. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Melting Pot
Ralph Ellison
Anne Sexton
Maya Angelou
15. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
John Smith
Vachel Lindsay
Prose
Walt Whitman
16. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Sonnet
Wonders of the Invisible World
Alice Walker
Polemic
17. A stanza.
Prose
Verse
Beat Movement
Melting Pot
18. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Free Verse
Norman Mailer
Stanza
Kate Chopin
19. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
James Fenimore Cooper
Nietzscheism
T.S Eliot
20. (Colonial Period) One of the most brilliant of American thinkers. Theologian and philosopher; vigorous defender of Calvinistic orthodoxy at the end of the Puritan era. Influenced major nineteenth century writers such as Emerson - Hawthorne - Melville
Jonathan Edwards
Edgar Allen Poe
Determinism
Allegory
21. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Stanza
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Rhyme
Prose
22. 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
Scientism
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Kate Chopin
Carl Sandburg
23. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Norman Mailer
Thomas Morton
Edgar Allen Poe
Wonders of the Invisible World
24. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Walt Whitman
Nietzscheism
Beat Movement
Willa Cather
25. (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
William Bradford
Emile Zola
Sarah Orne Jewett
Genteel Tradition
26. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Loss of Traditional Values
Darwinism
Abigail Adams
27. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Beat Movement
James Weldon Johnson
Broadside
Thomas Morton
28. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Genteel Tradition
Lyres
T.S Eliot
Washington Irving
29. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
John Adams
Emily Dickinson
Jack London
Nietzscheism
30. 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
Edith Wharton
J.D Salinger
Anne Sexton
Rhyme Scheme
31. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Foot
Persona
Rhythm
Phillip Roth
32. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Modernism
Edgar Lee Masters
Broadside
33. 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.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Transcendentalism
Bret Harte
Atavism
34. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Realism
Sonnet
Jack Kerouac
Scan
35. 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
Phillip Roth
Epic Story
James Fenimore Cooper
Allen Ginsberg
36. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Drama
Jack London
Robert Lowell
Samuel Sewall
37. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Dorthy Parker
James Weldon Johnson
Jack Kerouac
Epic Story
38. 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
Melting Pot
Narrative Poem
Jack London
Naturalism
39. 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.'
Scientism
Robert Frost
Dorthy Parker
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
40. 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
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
J.D Salinger
Ezra Pound
Edwin Arlington Robinson
41. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Jean Toomer
William S. Burroughs
Ernest Hemmingway
Rhyme
42. 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
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Calvinism
Thomas Paine
Nietzscheism
43. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Iambic Pentameter
Poetry
Thomas Paine
44. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Scientism
Ralph Ellison
45. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Narrative Poem
John Adams
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Maya Angelou
46. 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
William Byrd
Modernism
Sylvia Plath
Transcendental Club
47. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Rhyme
John Adams
Nietzscheism
Booker T. Washington
48. 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
Theodore Dreiser
Thomas Paine
Iambic Pentameter
Emily Dickinson
49. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ballad
Alice Walker
Jack Kerouac
The 3 primary literary genres
50. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
T.S Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lyres
Toni Morrison
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