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CLEP American Literature

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1. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.






2. Wrote 'The Red Badge of Courage' and 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets -' and 'The Open Boat.' Red Badge of Courage is considered the first modern war novel. Work is celebrated for its images and symbolism. Work is often described as impressionist due t






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






5. 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






6. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'






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






8. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature






9. 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'






10. 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.






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






12. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'






13. Wrote Catcher in the Rye






14. Prose - Poetry - Drama






15. (Colonial Period) Wrote Of Plymouth Plantation (First Thanksgiving) - Chronicled the Pilgrim experience from the religious considerations that caused them to leave England for Holland and then for America.Style is dignified and Grave - and events are






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






17. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart






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






19. (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






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






21. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'






22. (Colonial Period) One of colonial New England's most eminent clergyman. Greatest achievement was as an historian of the Puritan experience. 'Diary of Cotton Mather' - Account of Mather wrestling with sexual temptation to marry a much younger women di






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






24. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'






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






26. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'






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






28. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.






29. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.






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






32. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.






33. 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






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






35. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.






36. Well-known humorists.






37. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot






38. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.






39. 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






40. 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






41. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.






42. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.






43. 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.






44. 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'






45. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'






46. 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






47. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.






48. 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.






49. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.






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