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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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.
Loaded Words
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Allegory
Maya Angelou
2. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Richard Wright
Loaded Words
Norman Mailer
Nietzscheism
3. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
e.e cummings
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ballad
American Adam
4. 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
Abigail Adams
Rhyme Scheme
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Naturalism
5. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Zora Neal Hurston
Romanticism
Harriet Beecher Stowe
James Weldon Johnson
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.
The Day of Doom
Loss of Traditional Values
Mary Wilkins Freeman
William Faulkner
7. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Jean Toomer
Frank Norris
Epic Story
Three main colonial era poets
8. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Vachel Lindsay
Calvinism
Determinism
Wonders of the Invisible World
9. 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
Imagist Poetry
Jack Kerouac
Edgar Lee Masters
10. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Naturalism
Emily Dickinson
11. 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.
The Day of Doom
Zora Neal Hurston
Stephen Crane
James Baldwin
12. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Genteel Tradition
Polemic
Three main colonial era poets
Prose
13. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Naturalism
Willa Cather
Jack Kerouac
14. (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
Puritan Poetry
Edward Teller
Realism
James Thurbur
15. 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
W.E.B Du Bois
Ezra Pound
Meter
Kate Chopin
16. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Willa Cather
The Day of Doom
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Poetry
17. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Sylvia Plath
John Smith
Iambic Pentameter
Frederick Douglass
18. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
James Thurbur
Ernest Hemmingway
Jean Toomer
Genteel Tradition
19. Wrote 'The House of Mirth -' and 'The Age of Innocence' most famous for 'Ethan Frome' Noted use of indirection and allusion. First women to win a Pulitzer for 'The Age of Innocence' Main themes were upper-class life and the constraints it placed on b
Aphorisms
Broadside
Ralph Ellison
Edith Wharton
20. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Emile Zola
Alice Walker
Washington Irving
Beat Movement
21. 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.
Langston Hughes
Dorthy Parker
John Winthrop
Gothic
22. In the 1920s - became the symbol of the liberated woman for her wit and independence. Known for her caustic and clever poems and short stories.
Saul Bellow
Dorthy Parker
Jack Kerouac
William S. Burroughs
23. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Calvinism
Nativism
Refrain
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
24. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Willa Cather
John Adams
John Winthrop
Aphorisms
25. 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.
Puritan Poetry
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Blank Verse
Modernism
26. 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
Atavism
Stanza
Cotton Mather
27. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Phillip Roth
Narrative Poem
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Smith
28. 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'
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Lyres
Toni Morrison
Sonnet
29. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Racialism
Scan
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
T.S Eliot
30. 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
Persona
Ernest Hemmingway
Transcendental Club
31. (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
Edgar Lee Masters
Calvinism
Countee Cullen
Abigail Adams
32. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Loaded Words
Loss of Traditional Values
James Baldwin
Edward Teller
33. Clever - memorable sayings.
Sonnet
Erica Jong
Aphorisms
Abigail Adams
34. 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
Lyres
Transcendentalism
Carl Sandburg
Ballad
35. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ballad
Refrain
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
James Weldon Johnson
36. 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.
Monologue
Toni Morrison
Sarah Orne Jewett
James Thurbur
37. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Vachel Lindsay
Booker T. Washington
Carl Sandburg
Blank Verse
38. 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
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Genteel Tradition
William Byrd
Stephen Crane
39. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
Theodore Dreiser
Zora Neal Hurston
John Steinbeck
40. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Romanticism
Lyric Poem
William S. Burroughs
Atavism
41. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Vachel Lindsay
William Faulkner
Saul Bellow
Edgar Lee Masters
42. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Naturalism
Loaded Words
Samuel Sewall
Sonnet
43. 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
The 3 primary literary genres
Emily Dickinson
Nietzscheism
Bret Harte
44. 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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
T.S Eliot
William Bradford
Toni Morrison
45. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Scan
Theodore Dreiser
Thomas Paine
Jack Kerouac
46. 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.
Langston Hughes
Atavism
Erica Jong
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
47. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Poetry
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Jack London
James Baldwin
48. All events follow natural laws.
Loaded Words
Phillip Roth
Determinism
Thomas Paine
49. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Rhyme
Epic Story
Free Verse
Jack Kerouac
50. (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
John Winthrop
Edith Wharton
W.E.B Du Bois
William Bradford
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