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CLEP American Literature
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1. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Sylvia Plath
Iambic Pentameter
Langston Hughes
Mayflower Compact
2. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
T.S Eliot
Richard Wright
Allegory
Jonathan Edwards
3. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Claude McKay
American Adam
Jack London
Beat Movement
4. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Washington Irving
James Thurbur
Bret Harte
Ralph Ellison
5. 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
Abigail Adams
Alice Walker
Henry James
John Steinbeck
6. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Lyres
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Henry James
James Weldon Johnson
7. 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
Ernest Hemmingway
Epic Story
William Faulkner
8. Wrote 'The Red Badge of Courage' and 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets -' and 'The Open Boat.' Red Badge of Courage is considered the first modern war novel. Work is celebrated for its images and symbolism. Work is often described as impressionist due t
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stephen Crane
The Declaration of Independence
American Adam
9. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Samuel Sewall
Free Verse
Scan
James Fenimore Cooper
10. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Wonders of the Invisible World
Lyres
Vachel Lindsay
Frank Norris
11. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Sarah Orne Jewett
Anne Sexton
Loss of Traditional Values
Naturalism
12. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Scientism
Sarah Orne Jewett
Naturalism
Ezra Pound
13. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
John Adams
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Loaded Words
J.D Salinger
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
Allen Ginsberg
William Faulkner
Romanticism
Frederick Douglass
15. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Ballad
Iambic Pentameter
Gwendolyn Brooks
Epic Story
16. 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.
The Day of Doom
John Winthrop
Modernism
Blank Verse
17. 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
Carl Sandburg
e.e cummings
Robert Frost
18. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Henry David Thoreau
James Baldwin
Alice Walker
Gothic
19. Characterized by: Ordinary Language - Free Verse - Concentrated Word Pictures - Very specific words and phrases - Advanced by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell; also utilized by Robert Frost
Imagist Poetry
Abigail Adams
W.E.B Du Bois
Emile Zola
20. Clever - memorable sayings.
Erica Jong
Sarah Orne Jewett
Poetry
Aphorisms
21. 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
Stanza
Gwendolyn Brooks
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Emily Dickinson
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
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Carl Sandburg
Jack Kerouac
Mary Wilkins Freeman
23. 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
Aphorisms
Monologue
Vachel Lindsay
24. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Sylvia Plath
Three main colonial era poets
Flannery O'Connor
John Adams
25. 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
Nativism
Aphorisms
e.e cummings
26. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Saul Bellow
Lyric Poem
Imagist Poetry
27. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Monologue
Henry James
Wonders of the Invisible World
Poetry
28. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Vachel Lindsay
Thomas Morton
Three main colonial era poets
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
29. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Kate Chopin
Rhythm
Edgar Allen Poe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
30. 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.
James Fenimore Cooper
Saul Bellow
Gothic
Narrative Poem
31. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Free Verse
Monologue
Loss of Traditional Values
Cotton Mather
32. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Broadside
Flannery O'Connor
Rhyme Scheme
J.D Salinger
33. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Epic Story
James Baldwin
Sarah Orne Jewett
Allegory
34. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Determinism
Herman Melville
James Thurbur
Vachel Lindsay
35. (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
Poetry
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Thomas Morton
Zora Neal Hurston
36. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Epic Story
Edward Teller
Aphorisms
American Adam
37. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Transcendental Club
Thomas Jefferson
Allen Ginsberg
Samuel Sewall
38. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Carl Sandburg
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Day of Doom
Melting Pot
39. 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.
Gothic
Henry James
Robert Frost
Atavism
40. Key intellectual and philosophical voice of 19th-century America. Key player in the transcendentalist movement. First to define what made American poetry American - it is verse that celebrates ordinary experience rather than the epic themes of the pa
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
John Adams
Racialism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. 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'
William S. Burroughs
Rhythm
Lyric Poem
Thomas Morton
42. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Allen Ginsberg
Alice Walker
William S. Burroughs
Mayflower Compact
43. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Epic Story
Blank Verse
Sarah Orne Jewett
Booker T. Washington
44. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Alice Walker
Rhyme
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
T.S Eliot
45. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
John Smith
Iambic Pentameter
Modernism
Saul Bellow
46. 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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Narrative Poem
Richard Wright
Thomas Paine
47. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Drama
Foot
W.E.B Du Bois
Countee Cullen
48. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Toni Morrison
Willa Cather
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Dreiser
49. 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
Emile Zola
Allegory
Edgar Lee Masters
William Faulkner
50. 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'
Darwinism
Toni Morrison
Robert Frost
Racialism