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CLEP American Literature
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1. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Maya Angelou
Persona
Willa Cather
Polemic
2. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Benjamin Franklin
Henry David Thoreau
The Declaration of Independence
W.E.B Du Bois
3. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Frank Norris
Booker T. Washington
The 3 primary literary genres
Beat Movement
4. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Samuel Sewall
Benjamin Franklin
James Baldwin
Mayflower Compact
5. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Allegory
Lyres
Nietzscheism
John Winthrop
6. Wrote 'Richard Cory' - Created poems dealing with historic myths and characters. Known primarily for short - ironic characteristics of ordinary individuals. Won 3 Pulitzers : 'Collected Poems -' 'The Man Who Died Twice -' and 'Tristram'
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Poetry
W.E.B Du Bois
T.S Eliot
7. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Monologue
Polemic
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Romanticism
8. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Thomas Paine
The Declaration of Independence
Narrative Poem
Scan
9. Father of American Literature - First American writer to achieve an international reputation. Rip Van Winkle (antihero). Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Devil and Tom Walker. Was 50 years old before his real name appeared on any of his books. Used alias
Wonders of the Invisible World
Washington Irving
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Meter
10. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Willa Cather
Atavism
Aphorisms
Phillip Roth
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
Imagist Poetry
Maya Angelou
Robert Frost
12. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Willa Cather
Allen Ginsberg
Henry James
Verse
13. 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
Herman Melville
Meter
The Declaration of Independence
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
14. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Harriet Beecher Stowe
James Thurbur
William Byrd
Alice Walker
15. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Thomas Jefferson
Rhythm
Toni Morrison
Lyres
16. '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
Edgar Lee Masters
Alice Walker
Ernest Hemmingway
John Winthrop
17. Clever - memorable sayings.
Edward Teller
Genteel Tradition
Aphorisms
Nietzscheism
18. 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.
Edward Teller
Determinism
Social Darwinism
Flannery O'Connor
19. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Norman Mailer
John Adams
Saul Bellow
Bret Harte
20. (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
Zora Neal Hurston
American Adam
Ernest Hemmingway
John Winthrop
21. 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
Jack Kerouac
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Foot
22. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Gwendolyn Brooks
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Erica Jong
Herman Melville
23. (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
The Declaration of Independence
Calvinism
J.D Salinger
Foot
24. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Naturalism
Melting Pot
Frank Norris
James Weldon Johnson
25. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Blank Verse
Vachel Lindsay
Cotton Mather
Verse
26. 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
Bret Harte
William Byrd
Epic Story
Jack London
27. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Allegory
Polemic
Lyric Poem
Jack Kerouac
28. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Cotton Mather
Imagist Poetry
Richard Wright
Racialism
29. 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.
Toni Morrison
Scientism
Saul Bellow
Frederick Douglass
30. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Three main colonial era poets
Drama
Transcendental Club
Emile Zola
31. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
John Adams
Drama
Zora Neal Hurston
Cotton Mather
32. 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
James Thurbur
Drama
Imagist Poetry
William Bradford
33. 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'
Naturalism
Gwendolyn Brooks
Romanticism
William S. Burroughs
34. 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
Emily Dickinson
Melting Pot
Iambic Pentameter
Imagist Poetry
35. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Melting Pot
Persona
Flannery O'Connor
Gothic
36. (Colonial Period) Stands in direct opposition to the principles - personalities and literary styles of William Bradford and John Winthrop. Did not come to settle the land and establish God's Kingdom - but to trade beaver pelts and live pleasantly. Es
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jean Toomer
J.D Salinger
Thomas Morton
37. 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.
Poetry
Saul Bellow
John Steinbeck
Mayflower Compact
38. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
John Winthrop
Allegory
Booker T. Washington
Edgar Allen Poe
39. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Monologue
Edward Teller
James Fenimore Cooper
Sonnet
40. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Edward Teller
Ballad
Ralph Ellison
Allegory
41. All events follow natural laws.
Determinism
Lyric Poem
Genteel Tradition
John Steinbeck
42. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Jack London
Frank Norris
W.E.B Du Bois
Zora Neal Hurston
43. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Allen Ginsberg
Erica Jong
Emily Dickinson
Rhyme Scheme
44. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ballad
Polemic
Nativism
John Steinbeck
45. 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.'
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Edgar Allen Poe
Rhyme
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
46. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
William Faulkner
Sylvia Plath
Wonders of the Invisible World
Broadside
47. 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
Jack Kerouac
James Thurbur
Foot
48. 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.
Jean Toomer
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Bret Harte
Claude McKay
49. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Imagist Poetry
Modernism
Foot
50. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Countee Cullen
William Byrd
Rhyme
Mayflower Compact