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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Realism
Gwendolyn Brooks
Samuel Sewall
Herman Melville
2. 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
Modernism
Vachel Lindsay
Melting Pot
Walt Whitman
3. 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'
Jean Toomer
William S. Burroughs
Monologue
Mary Wilkins Freeman
4. 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
Samuel Sewall
J.D Salinger
Naturalism
Maya Angelou
5. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Phillip Roth
Henry James
Frank Norris
Jonathan Edwards
6. (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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lyric Poem
Calvinism
Allegory
7. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Gwendolyn Brooks
Romanticism
William Faulkner
Loaded Words
8. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Claude McKay
Edith Wharton
Genteel Tradition
9. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Carl Sandburg
Narrative Poem
Scan
Verse
10. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Loaded Words
Edgar Lee Masters
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Samuel Sewall
11. (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
Melting Pot
Countee Cullen
Lyric Poem
12. 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'
Aphorisms
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Loaded Words
Frank Norris
13. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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14. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Alice Walker
Puritan Poetry
Sylvia Plath
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. 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
Persona
Foot
Flannery O'Connor
Ezra Pound
16. 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
Thomas Morton
Henry David Thoreau
Imagist Poetry
Puritan Poetry
17. 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
e.e cummings
Iambic Pentameter
John Adams
18. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Loss of Traditional Values
Stanza
Beat Movement
Melting Pot
19. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Edward Teller
Toni Morrison
Romanticism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
20. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
The Declaration of Independence
Imagist Poetry
James Fenimore Cooper
The 3 primary literary genres
21. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Carl Sandburg
Beat Writers
Beat Movement
Samuel Sewall
22. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Emile Zola
Jack London
Rhythm
Scientism
23. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
James Baldwin
Scientism
Ballad
Jack London
24. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Abigail Adams
Washington Irving
Broadside
Calvinism
25. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
James Thurbur
Persona
Willa Cather
Countee Cullen
26. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Persona
Nativism
Flannery O'Connor
J.D Salinger
27. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Samuel Sewall
Anne Sexton
Wonders of the Invisible World
Theodore Dreiser
28. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Imagist Poetry
Ballad
Edgar Lee Masters
Monologue
29. (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
American Adam
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Romanticism
30. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Narrative Poem
Ralph Ellison
Theodore Dreiser
Alice Walker
31. Typically referred to as the greatest American novelist (next to Mark Twain) of the second half of the 19th century. Main theme of his work was the innocence and exuberance of America compared to the corruption and wisdom of Europe. Wrote 'The Portra
Henry James
John Adams
Phillip Roth
William Bradford
32. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Edith Wharton
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Kate Chopin
Meter
33. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Emile Zola
Norman Mailer
Rhyme
Nathaniel Hawthorne
34. (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 Faulkner
William Bradford
Flannery O'Connor
Robert Lowell
35. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Blank Verse
Darwinism
Realism
Lyres
36. 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.
Frederick Douglass
Edith Wharton
Social Darwinism
Henry David Thoreau
37. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Stanza
Edward Teller
John Smith
Emily Dickinson
38. 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
Genteel Tradition
Modernism
Edgar Lee Masters
Aphorisms
39. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Broadside
John Adams
Prose
Iambic Pentameter
40. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Langston Hughes
American Adam
Abigail Adams
James Thurbur
41. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
The 3 primary literary genres
Zora Neal Hurston
Racialism
William S. Burroughs
42. 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.
Anne Sexton
The Day of Doom
Washington Irving
Atavism
43. Wrote 'Grapes of Wrath -' 'Of Mice and Men -' and 'East of Eden -' and 'Winter of Our Discontent.' Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature - Pulitzer and and the National Book Award.
John Steinbeck
Thomas Jefferson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
44. Work did not have a political agenda. Wrote 'Their Eyes Were Watching God -' 'Mules and Men -' and 'Jonahs Gourd Vine.' Considered one of the key black writers of the 20th Century.
Atavism
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Edgar Lee Masters
Zora Neal Hurston
45. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Zora Neal Hurston
Emily Dickinson
Benjamin Franklin
James Baldwin
46. 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
Rhyme
Edgar Allen Poe
T.S Eliot
Bret Harte
47. 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.
Calvinism
Saul Bellow
e.e cummings
John Smith
48. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Rhythm
Henry David Thoreau
Loaded Words
49. 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.
Stephen Crane
William Faulkner
Cotton Mather
Saul Bellow
50. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Nativism
Refrain
Epic Story
Beat Movement