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CLEP American Literature
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1. (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
Scientism
Thomas Paine
Calvinism
Cotton Mather
2. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Abigail Adams
Richard Wright
Rhythm
John Steinbeck
3. 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.
Jonathan Edwards
Meter
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Racialism
4. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Erica Jong
John Adams
Nativism
Nietzscheism
5. 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.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gothic
Sonnet
6. 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
Calvinism
James Thurbur
Erica Jong
Bret Harte
7. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Ezra Pound
Henry James
Jean Toomer
Erica Jong
8. 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.'
Herman Melville
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Frank Norris
John Winthrop
9. 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
Imagist Poetry
Iambic Pentameter
Herman Melville
Lyric Poem
10. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
James Baldwin
Carl Sandburg
Lyric Poem
Wonders of the Invisible World
11. 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
Edward Teller
Cotton Mather
James Weldon Johnson
12. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Scientism
Imagist Poetry
Carl Sandburg
Kate Chopin
13. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Edgar Allen Poe
Abigail Adams
Genteel Tradition
Prose
14. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Genteel Tradition
Stanza
Transcendental Club
Polemic
15. Clever - memorable sayings.
Thomas Morton
Aphorisms
Refrain
Melting Pot
16. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Jean Toomer
Anne Sexton
William Faulkner
Maya Angelou
17. 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
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Foot
Ezra Pound
Harriet Beecher Stowe
18. 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.
Maya Angelou
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vachel Lindsay
James Fenimore Cooper
19. 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.
Sarah Orne Jewett
e.e cummings
Maya Angelou
Herman Melville
20. 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.
Aphorisms
Henry James
Foot
Claude McKay
21. Literary movement of the 19th century Presented the details of ordinary life in art. Realists rejected the heroic and adventurous and concentrated on pessimistic views of poverty - prostitution and pain. Reaction to Romanticism.
Gothic
Realism
Carl Sandburg
Melting Pot
22. 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
Imagist Poetry
John Winthrop
James Fenimore Cooper
Meter
23. 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
Darwinism
T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Stephen Crane
24. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gothic
The 3 primary literary genres
Mary Wilkins Freeman
25. 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
Rhyme
Bret Harte
26. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Anne Sexton
Frank Norris
Ballad
Sylvia Plath
27. 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
Sonnet
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Phillip Roth
Carl Sandburg
28. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lyric Poem
Polemic
Allegory
29. 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
Free Verse
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Carl Sandburg
Norman Mailer
30. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Foot
Sarah Orne Jewett
Atavism
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
31. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Beat Writers
Three main colonial era poets
Countee Cullen
Meter
32. 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.
Samuel Sewall
John Steinbeck
Toni Morrison
Meter
33. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Atavism
T.S Eliot
Countee Cullen
Racialism
34. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Anne Sexton
Monologue
Booker T. Washington
Loss of Traditional Values
35. 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
Atavism
Naturalism
Lyres
Cotton Mather
36. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Puritan Poetry
John Winthrop
Free Verse
Allen Ginsberg
37. 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'
Drama
Rhyme Scheme
William S. Burroughs
Frederick Douglass
38. (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
Lyric Poem
Jonathan Edwards
J.D Salinger
John Winthrop
39. 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
Imagist Poetry
Edgar Allen Poe
Richard Wright
Allen Ginsberg
40. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Racialism
Sarah Orne Jewett
Refrain
Puritan Poetry
41. 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.
Booker T. Washington
Phillip Roth
The Day of Doom
Langston Hughes
42. A stanza.
Verse
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Rhythm
Three main colonial era poets
43. (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
Jack Kerouac
Lyres
Bret Harte
Jonathan Edwards
44. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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45. 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'
Theodore Dreiser
Toni Morrison
Sylvia Plath
William Faulkner
46. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Norman Mailer
Scientism
Iambic Pentameter
Kate Chopin
47. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Refrain
Wonders of the Invisible World
Jack London
Lyric Poem
48. 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.
Rhythm
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Zora Neal Hurston
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
49. 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.
Zora Neal Hurston
T.S Eliot
Samuel Sewall
Realism
50. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Robert Frost
Modernism
Thomas Morton
J.D Salinger