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CLEP American Literature
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1. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Verse
Carl Sandburg
Frank Norris
Imagist Poetry
2. 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.
Calvinism
Gwendolyn Brooks
Atavism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Edgar Allen Poe
Melting Pot
Darwinism
Vachel Lindsay
4. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Drama
J.D Salinger
Rhyme
Genteel Tradition
5. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Melting Pot
Loss of Traditional Values
Realism
Rhythm
6. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Aphorisms
Kate Chopin
e.e cummings
Willa Cather
7. 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.
Gothic
Jack Kerouac
Lyric Poem
Rhythm
8. (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
Romanticism
Thomas Morton
Calvinism
Epic Story
9. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Saul Bellow
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
William Faulkner
James Fenimore Cooper
10. 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
John Smith
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Norman Mailer
11. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Ralph Ellison
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Claude McKay
Robert Frost
12. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
James Fenimore Cooper
Benjamin Franklin
Theodore Dreiser
Blank Verse
13. All events follow natural laws.
Edgar Allen Poe
Iambic Pentameter
The 3 primary literary genres
Determinism
14. Pilgrim's constitution. Shaped the politics - religion - and social behavior of the first settlers. Eventually influenced the shape - style and content of the U.S Constitution. William Bradford was famous for being one of the authors and signers.
Mayflower Compact
Ballad
Emily Dickinson
Mary Wilkins Freeman
15. 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
Carl Sandburg
Frederick Douglass
Richard Wright
Genteel Tradition
16. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
Foot
W.E.B Du Bois
Richard Wright
17. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Robert Lowell
Three main colonial era poets
The 3 primary literary genres
Imagist Poetry
18. 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.
John Smith
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
The Day of Doom
Ernest Hemmingway
19. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Rhyme
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Transcendentalism
20. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Zora Neal Hurston
Polemic
Transcendental Club
Dorthy Parker
21. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Rhyme Scheme
Scientism
Meter
Flannery O'Connor
22. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
The 3 primary literary genres
Robert Frost
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Jean Toomer
23. Clever - memorable sayings.
Carl Sandburg
Aphorisms
Emile Zola
Poetry
24. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Byrd
Epic Story
25. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Darwinism
Beat Movement
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Free Verse
26. 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.
Drama
Realism
Ernest Hemmingway
Herman Melville
27. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Blank Verse
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Robert Lowell
Phillip Roth
28. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
James Fenimore Cooper
Thomas Morton
James Weldon Johnson
Foot
29. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jean Toomer
Countee Cullen
Allegory
30. Applying the evolutionary 'survival of the fittest' concept to a world marked by struggle and competition. (Promulgated by Herbert Spencer - a best-selling sociologist of the late 19th Century.
Social Darwinism
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Modernism
Ezra Pound
31. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Three main colonial era poets
Prose
Rhyme
Calvinism
32. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Beat Writers
Free Verse
James Thurbur
Washington Irving
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sarah Orne Jewett
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Thomas Morton
34. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Modernism
Prose
James Weldon Johnson
Determinism
35. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Meter
Robert Lowell
Robert Frost
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
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
Transcendental Club
Stanza
Claude McKay
Vachel Lindsay
37. 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'
Narrative Poem
Iambic Pentameter
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Poetry
38. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Edgar Lee Masters
Gothic
Kate Chopin
39. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Norman Mailer
Willa Cather
American Adam
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
40. Considered the greatest humorist of 19th century American Literature. Wrote 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' Master of 'Local Color' writing. Used vernacular - exaggeration and deadpan narrator to create humor.
William Faulkner
Henry David Thoreau
Dorthy Parker
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
41. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Bret Harte
Ballad
Emily Dickinson
William S. Burroughs
42. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Lyric Poem
Edwin Arlington Robinson
William Bradford
Robert Frost
43. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Washington Irving
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Phillip Roth
J.D Salinger
44. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Loss of Traditional Values
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Washington Irving
Rhyme
45. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Refrain
Dorthy Parker
Sonnet
Beat Movement
46. 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
James Fenimore Cooper
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Thomas Morton
James Weldon Johnson
47. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Poetry
Stanza
Thomas Paine
Vachel Lindsay
48. 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
John Adams
e.e cummings
Edith Wharton
Thomas Jefferson
49. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
James Weldon Johnson
Wonders of the Invisible World
Narrative Poem
Frank Norris
50. 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
Washington Irving
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Allen Ginsberg
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