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CLEP American Literature
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1. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Epic Story
Lyric Poem
Wonders of the Invisible World
2. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Melting Pot
Jack London
Wonders of the Invisible World
Narrative Poem
3. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Thomas Paine
Ralph Ellison
Nietzscheism
Beat Movement
4. 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.
Beat Writers
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Robert Lowell
Gothic
5. 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
T.S Eliot
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Ballad
Edith Wharton
6. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Vachel Lindsay
Dorthy Parker
Refrain
Theodore Dreiser
7. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Foot
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Imagist Poetry
8. 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.
Claude McKay
Three main colonial era poets
William S. Burroughs
Ezra Pound
9. 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
Aphorisms
Loss of Traditional Values
Emily Dickinson
Carl Sandburg
10. 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
Gothic
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thomas Morton
11. 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.
Rhyme
John Steinbeck
The Declaration of Independence
Willa Cather
12. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Drama
Phillip Roth
Edgar Lee Masters
Three main colonial era poets
13. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
William Byrd
Blank Verse
Monologue
Refrain
14. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Poetry
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Countee Cullen
15. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Racialism
Realism
Gothic
Willa Cather
16. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Allen Ginsberg
Social Darwinism
John Adams
Epic Story
17. 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.
Zora Neal Hurston
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Imagist Poetry
Mayflower Compact
18. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Nativism
Romanticism
Lyric Poem
J.D Salinger
19. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Robert Frost
Social Darwinism
James Weldon Johnson
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
20. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Free Verse
Refrain
Theodore Dreiser
John Smith
21. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Narrative Poem
Edith Wharton
Herman Melville
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
22. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Kate Chopin
James Fenimore Cooper
Edgar Allen Poe
23. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ballad
Erica Jong
Frederick Douglass
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
24. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Gothic
Abigail Adams
Foot
Erica Jong
25. Wrote 'The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.' Escaped slave that became one o f the most effective orators of his day - an influential newspaper writer - a militant abolitionist - and a famous diplomat.
Frederick Douglass
Romanticism
Jonathan Edwards
Anne Sexton
26. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Emile Zola
Henry James
Jonathan Edwards
Sylvia Plath
27. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Gothic
e.e cummings
Phillip Roth
Loaded Words
28. 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
Ballad
Allen Ginsberg
Gwendolyn Brooks
Edgar Allen Poe
29. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Jack London
Realism
Bret Harte
Allen Ginsberg
30. Well-known humorists.
Stanza
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Romanticism
31. 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
Stephen Crane
Cotton Mather
Robert Lowell
32. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Edward Teller
Scientism
Calvinism
Iambic Pentameter
33. 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
Countee Cullen
Bret Harte
Willa Cather
Langston Hughes
34. 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
Calvinism
Realism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William S. Burroughs
35. 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
Monologue
Loaded Words
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
36. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anne Sexton
Rhyme Scheme
37. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Three main colonial era poets
Loss of Traditional Values
Walt Whitman
John Steinbeck
38. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Ballad
Emile Zola
Narrative Poem
Blank Verse
39. (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
Scientism
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Thomas Jefferson
Cotton Mather
40. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Langston Hughes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Sexton
41. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
James Weldon Johnson
Anne Sexton
Lyres
Scan
42. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Epic Story
Benjamin Franklin
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Richard Wright
43. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genteel Tradition
Edith Wharton
Gothic
44. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Maya Angelou
Thomas Paine
Iambic Pentameter
Jean Toomer
45. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Ballad
Persona
Realism
Rhythm
46. 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
Epic Story
American Adam
Cotton Mather
47. 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
Jean Toomer
Blank Verse
Calvinism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
48. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Countee Cullen
Scientism
Drama
Rhythm
49. 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
The 3 primary literary genres
John Smith
Drama
Walt Whitman
50. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Wonders of the Invisible World
Flannery O'Connor
Walt Whitman
The Declaration of Independence