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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Sylvia Plath
Edith Wharton
Prose
Mary Wilkins Freeman
2. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Flannery O'Connor
American Adam
Darwinism
William Bradford
3. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Maya Angelou
Iambic Pentameter
Allen Ginsberg
Naturalism
4. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Scientism
Poetry
Romanticism
Drama
5. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Phillip Roth
Jack Kerouac
Beat Writers
Mary Wilkins Freeman
6. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
Sylvia Plath
Gothic
Lyres
7. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Prose
Willa Cather
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Allen Ginsberg
8. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Ralph Ellison
Scientism
Alice Walker
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9. 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.
American Adam
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jonathan Edwards
Edward Teller
10. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Washington Irving
Puritan Poetry
Nietzscheism
Melting Pot
11. 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.
Melting Pot
The Day of Doom
Mayflower Compact
Langston Hughes
12. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Stanza
Beat Movement
Polemic
Calvinism
13. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
John Adams
Loss of Traditional Values
Robert Frost
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
14. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Richard Wright
Langston Hughes
Wonders of the Invisible World
Ballad
15. First great writer of psychological fiction; obsessed with sin and guilt. 'The Scarlet Letter' - 'Young Goodman Brown' - Claimed his work was romance and therefore not required to be realistic.
Jack Kerouac
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Meter
Jonathan Edwards
16. 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.
Jonathan Edwards
Zora Neal Hurston
William Bradford
Booker T. Washington
17. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Jack London
Edward Teller
Verse
Free Verse
18. 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
Henry James
Abigail Adams
Langston Hughes
Polemic
19. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Erica Jong
Prose
Lyric Poem
20. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Washington Irving
Three main colonial era poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
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
Dorthy Parker
Sarah Orne Jewett
Emily Dickinson
William Faulkner
22. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Dorthy Parker
The 3 primary literary genres
Ezra Pound
Norman Mailer
23. (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
Zora Neal Hurston
Bret Harte
Beat Movement
24. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
John Steinbeck
Genteel Tradition
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Emile Zola
25. (Colonial Period) Began 'The History of New England' aboard the Arbella in 1630. Lead 2 -000 English emigrant to Massachusetts Bay. Made daily journal-style entries until his death. Intended it to be an account of his long governorship. Style is pla
Robert Lowell
John Winthrop
Stephen Crane
Anne Sexton
26. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Gwendolyn Brooks
Toni Morrison
Walt Whitman
Frank Norris
27. 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
Iambic Pentameter
James Thurbur
Carl Sandburg
28. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
John Adams
Blank Verse
Zora Neal Hurston
Jonathan Edwards
29. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
James Fenimore Cooper
Rhyme
Maya Angelou
Calvinism
30. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Carl Sandburg
Rhyme Scheme
John Smith
Gwendolyn Brooks
31. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Wonders of the Invisible World
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anne Sexton
Prose
32. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Ernest Hemmingway
Transcendental Club
Countee Cullen
Realism
33. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Kate Chopin
Genteel Tradition
Polemic
Thomas Jefferson
34. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Epic Story
Polemic
Narrative Poem
Drama
35. 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.
Alice Walker
Darwinism
Rhyme
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
36. 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.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
The Day of Doom
Jean Toomer
James Weldon Johnson
37. Well-known humorists.
Scientism
Persona
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
38. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Vachel Lindsay
John Steinbeck
Verse
Beat Movement
39. 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'
Polemic
Gwendolyn Brooks
Toni Morrison
Herman Melville
40. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Flannery O'Connor
Beat Writers
James Baldwin
William Byrd
41. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Alice Walker
Monologue
Determinism
Benjamin Franklin
42. 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
John Steinbeck
Herman Melville
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Atavism
43. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Carl Sandburg
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rhythm
Ezra Pound
44. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Persona
Racialism
Calvinism
Imagist Poetry
45. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Allegory
Transcendentalism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Modernism
46. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Erica Jong
Prose
Modernism
Rhyme
47. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Rhyme
Robert Lowell
Ralph Ellison
James Weldon Johnson
48. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Foot
Loaded Words
Rhythm
Modernism
49. 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
Naturalism
Free Verse
Walt Whitman
James Fenimore Cooper
50. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
The 3 primary literary genres
Beat Movement
Allegory
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