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CLEP American Literature
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1. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Romanticism
Willa Cather
Scan
Narrative Poem
2. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Edith Wharton
e.e cummings
Poetry
Nativism
3. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Robert Lowell
Benjamin Franklin
Erica Jong
James Weldon Johnson
4. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Carl Sandburg
Jack London
Thomas Paine
Prose
5. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Romanticism
Polemic
Jack Kerouac
Alice Walker
6. Well-known humorists.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Walt Whitman
Aphorisms
Edward Teller
7. 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.
e.e cummings
John Adams
William Faulkner
Ralph Ellison
8. 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
William Faulkner
American Adam
Romanticism
Modernism
9. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Refrain
Beat Writers
Mayflower Compact
10. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Refrain
Rhythm
Racialism
Beat Writers
11. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Calvinism
Frederick Douglass
John Adams
Willa Cather
12. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Loss of Traditional Values
The 3 primary literary genres
Aphorisms
13. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Refrain
Epic Story
Gwendolyn Brooks
Calvinism
14. 'The Old Man and the Sea -' 'The Sun Also Rises -' 'A Farewell to Arms -' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Writing style emphasizes: Short sentences - brief paragraphs - active verbs - authenticity - compression - clarity - and immediacy. Produced some
William Faulkner
Edgar Allen Poe
Ernest Hemmingway
Harriet Beecher Stowe
15. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Loss of Traditional Values
Realism
Kate Chopin
W.E.B Du Bois
16. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Stanza
Toni Morrison
Vachel Lindsay
Nativism
17. The belief that 'true' Americans were those of earlier Anglo-Saxon descent - and that this 'race' was under threat from the growing influx of Central European and Asian immigrants.
Nativism
Gothic
Edgar Allen Poe
Three main colonial era poets
18. 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.
Abigail Adams
Norman Mailer
Dorthy Parker
Free Verse
19. Ben Franklin paid his passage to America. First Pamphlet was Common Sense : credited with getting the colonists to see the 'advantage - necessity - and obligation' of breaking with Britain. Followed by a series of pamphlets - collectively called 'An
The Day of Doom
Thomas Paine
Claude McKay
William Bradford
20. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Langston Hughes
Transcendental Club
William Byrd
21. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lyres
Scientism
Phillip Roth
22. Clever - memorable sayings.
John Adams
Aphorisms
Henry David Thoreau
American Adam
23. 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
Gothic
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allen Ginsberg
Emily Dickinson
24. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
Henry David Thoreau
Narrative Poem
J.D Salinger
25. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Allen Ginsberg
W.E.B Du Bois
26. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Racialism
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Determinism
Jack Kerouac
27. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
J.D Salinger
William S. Burroughs
Washington Irving
Allen Ginsberg
28. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wonders of the Invisible World
John Steinbeck
Erica Jong
29. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Puritan Poetry
William Byrd
James Thurbur
Wonders of the Invisible World
30. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Puritan Poetry
Lyres
Loaded Words
31. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Edith Wharton
W.E.B Du Bois
Social Darwinism
Wonders of the Invisible World
32. 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
Sylvia Plath
American Adam
John Smith
33. 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
Imagist Poetry
Naturalism
Frank Norris
Genteel Tradition
34. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Foot
Rhyme Scheme
The Declaration of Independence
Iambic Pentameter
35. 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
Edgar Lee Masters
Scan
Phillip Roth
Bret Harte
36. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Robert Lowell
Transcendentalism
T.S Eliot
Wonders of the Invisible World
37. 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
Jonathan Edwards
Washington Irving
William Faulkner
38. 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.
Jean Toomer
John Smith
e.e cummings
Social Darwinism
39. 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
Drama
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Racialism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
40. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Nietzscheism
Transcendental Club
Gwendolyn Brooks
Anne Sexton
41. 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
Ezra Pound
Frederick Douglass
Rhythm
Naturalism
42. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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43. 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
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Sonnet
Henry David Thoreau
Langston Hughes
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.
Herman Melville
Zora Neal Hurston
Blank Verse
William S. Burroughs
45. 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
Anne Sexton
Phillip Roth
Transcendentalism
Melting Pot
46. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Herman Melville
The Declaration of Independence
Sarah Orne Jewett
Three main colonial era poets
47. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Norman Mailer
Verse
Rhyme Scheme
Iambic Pentameter
48. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Stephen Crane
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Emile Zola
Cotton Mather
49. (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
Modernism
Social Darwinism
Calvinism
Jonathan Edwards
50. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Sylvia Plath
Racialism
Frank Norris
William Faulkner
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