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CLEP American Literature

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1. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.






2. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.






3. (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






4. 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






5. Major theme of 20th Century literature.






6. 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






7. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.






8. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'






9. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.






10. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.






11. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.






12. 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






13. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'






14. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman






15. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet






16. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.






17. Local Colorist Wrote 'The Country of the Pointed Firs' Famous for use of idiomatic language - conservative values and imagery and vivid descriptions of rural New England.






18. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot






19. 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






20. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor






21. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.






22. The reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some distant ancestor that have not been present in intervening generations - such as hand like a hairy paw.






23. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture






24. 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






25. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.






26. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.






27. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.






28. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.






29. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.






30. 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






31. 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






32. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'






33. Wrote Catcher in the Rye






34. 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






35. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'






36. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.






37. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.






38. 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.'






39. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical






40. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'






41. 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






42. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.






43. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.






44. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.






45. 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.






46. (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






47. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.

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48. 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.






49. (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






50. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'