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CLEP American Literature

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






2. Wrote Catcher in the Rye






3. The repeated use of identical sounds.






4. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'






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






6. 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.






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






8. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.






9. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'






10. 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






11. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'






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






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.






16. 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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






21. (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






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






23. Prose - Poetry - Drama






24. 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






25. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist






26. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'






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

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28. 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.






29. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.






30. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)






31. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.






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






33. 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






34. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'






35. 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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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






42. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP






43. Major theme of 20th Century literature.






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






45. (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






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. 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.






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






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






50. 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.