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CLEP American Literature
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1. Well-known humorists.
Aphorisms
Edward Teller
Sarah Orne Jewett
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
2. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Edgar Allen Poe
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Emile Zola
Jean Toomer
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'
William S. Burroughs
Melting Pot
Rhyme
Jack Kerouac
4. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Booker T. Washington
James Fenimore Cooper
Kate Chopin
Vachel Lindsay
5. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
J.D Salinger
Sarah Orne Jewett
6. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
John Winthrop
Aphorisms
Theodore Dreiser
Monologue
7. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Robert Lowell
Phillip Roth
Verse
Social Darwinism
8. 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
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Melting Pot
Walt Whitman
Loss of Traditional Values
9. 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
Samuel Sewall
Carl Sandburg
Willa Cather
Wonders of the Invisible World
10. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Countee Cullen
William S. Burroughs
Jack London
Sonnet
11. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rhyme Scheme
Imagist Poetry
12. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Monologue
Vachel Lindsay
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Lyres
13. 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
J.D Salinger
Thomas Jefferson
Herman Melville
14. 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.
Narrative Poem
Dorthy Parker
Langston Hughes
Robert Lowell
15. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Ralph Ellison
Darwinism
John Steinbeck
16. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Stephen Crane
Rhyme
James Baldwin
Narrative Poem
17. 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
Lyric Poem
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Naturalism
Claude McKay
18. Resisted materialism and chose a life of simplicity - close to nature. Walden is a guidebook for life - showing the reader how to live wisely in a world designed to make wise living impossible. 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience' has become a primer
Henry David Thoreau
Melting Pot
Booker T. Washington
Allegory
19. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Melting Pot
Booker T. Washington
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
20. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Anne Sexton
Allegory
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mary Wilkins Freeman
21. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Refrain
The 3 primary literary genres
Rhyme
Drama
22. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Foot
Loaded Words
Booker T. Washington
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
23. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
William Bradford
Willa Cather
W.E.B Du Bois
Carl Sandburg
24. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Modernism
Epic Story
Blank Verse
25. 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
Atavism
Ezra Pound
Thomas Jefferson
Persona
26. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
James Thurbur
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Transcendentalism
Modernism
27. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Imagist Poetry
Rhythm
Willa Cather
Prose
28. 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
e.e cummings
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Realism
Bret Harte
29. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Racialism
American Adam
Thomas Morton
John Adams
30. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Langston Hughes
F. Scott Fitzgerald
W.E.B Du Bois
31. The Bard of Harlem; most successful black writer in America during the Harlem Renaissance. Wanted to capture the dominant oral traditions of black culture in written form. Best known for his poetry: 'The Weary Blues -' 'Fields of Wonder -' and 'The D
William Bradford
Langston Hughes
Toni Morrison
Racialism
32. 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
Puritan Poetry
Toni Morrison
Bret Harte
Transcendental Club
33. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Persona
Jean Toomer
Allen Ginsberg
Richard Wright
34. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Emile Zola
Scientism
Samuel Sewall
Modernism
35. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
James Baldwin
e.e cummings
Zora Neal Hurston
Thomas Jefferson
36. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Frank Norris
Emile Zola
Samuel Sewall
Edith Wharton
37. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Prose
Wonders of the Invisible World
Jean Toomer
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
38. 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.'
Prose
Willa Cather
Mayflower Compact
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
39. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Beat Writers
John Adams
Phillip Roth
Darwinism
40. (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
Genteel Tradition
The Day of Doom
Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Epic Story
Calvinism
Thomas Jefferson
James Weldon Johnson
42. A stanza.
Verse
Frank Norris
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Zora Neal Hurston
43. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Flannery O'Connor
Lyric Poem
Refrain
Stephen Crane
44. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
John Steinbeck
Henry James
Rhythm
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
45. 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
Langston Hughes
Ballad
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46. 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
Lyres
Herman Melville
William Faulkner
Henry David Thoreau
47. 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
Saul Bellow
Washington Irving
Romanticism
Atavism
48. (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
Willa Cather
Cotton Mather
Jean Toomer
Naturalism
49. 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.
Sylvia Plath
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Social Darwinism
Melting Pot
50. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Rhyme Scheme
Emile Zola
Lyres
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