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CLEP American Literature
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1. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
John Adams
Booker T. Washington
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
2. (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
James Baldwin
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Thomas Morton
Verse
3. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Ezra Pound
Countee Cullen
Refrain
Vachel Lindsay
4. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Iambic Pentameter
Refrain
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Monologue
5. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
Rhyme
Jack London
Flannery O'Connor
6. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Iambic Pentameter
The 3 primary literary genres
Persona
Walt Whitman
7. 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
Ezra Pound
Dorthy Parker
John Winthrop
Transcendentalism
8. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Ballad
Thomas Paine
Rhyme
Prose
9. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Benjamin Franklin
Nietzscheism
Persona
Edgar Allen Poe
10. (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
Allegory
William Bradford
Anne Sexton
Saul Bellow
11. All events follow natural laws.
Rhyme Scheme
Blank Verse
Sarah Orne Jewett
Determinism
12. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Saul Bellow
Alice Walker
Romanticism
William Byrd
13. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Rhyme Scheme
Racialism
Benjamin Franklin
14. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Melting Pot
Epic Story
The Declaration of Independence
Theodore Dreiser
15. 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.
Sonnet
Zora Neal Hurston
Thomas Morton
Edith Wharton
16. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Three main colonial era poets
Abigail Adams
Anne Sexton
Scan
17. A stanza.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Iambic Pentameter
Verse
Scientism
18. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Emile Zola
Wonders of the Invisible World
Alice Walker
Sarah Orne Jewett
19. '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
Ernest Hemmingway
W.E.B Du Bois
Benjamin Franklin
James Thurbur
20. 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
Meter
Loaded Words
Naturalism
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
21. Well-known humorists.
Washington Irving
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Puritan Poetry
Sarah Orne Jewett
22. Book of feline poems - 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats -' formed the basis of the Broadway hit 'Cats.' Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Published 'The Waste-Land' which became the most famous poem of the first half of the 20th Centur
James Fenimore Cooper
Polemic
Naturalism
T.S Eliot
23. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Stephen Crane
Lyres
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Blank Verse
24. (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
Atavism
James Weldon Johnson
Cotton Mather
Jean Toomer
25. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Loss of Traditional Values
The 3 primary literary genres
Willa Cather
26. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Lyric Poem
Transcendental Club
Ernest Hemmingway
Jack Kerouac
27. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
William Byrd
Polemic
Scientism
28. 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.
Toni Morrison
The Day of Doom
Blank Verse
Aphorisms
29. 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.
Erica Jong
Allen Ginsberg
Blank Verse
Dorthy Parker
30. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Prose
James Thurbur
Maya Angelou
Sarah Orne Jewett
31. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Rhyme Scheme
Modernism
Sonnet
Saul Bellow
32. 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
Jack London
Carl Sandburg
Thomas Morton
Nativism
33. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Epic Story
American Adam
Henry David Thoreau
Lyres
34. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Beat Writers
Richard Wright
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. 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.
J.D Salinger
Social Darwinism
Rhyme Scheme
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
36. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Alice Walker
Henry David Thoreau
Sylvia Plath
Free Verse
37. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
W.E.B Du Bois
Cotton Mather
Maya Angelou
Sarah Orne Jewett
38. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Scientism
Henry James
Blank Verse
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
39. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrative Poem
Vachel Lindsay
Beat Writers
40. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Stanza
Persona
Sylvia Plath
41. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Nietzscheism
William Faulkner
Ralph Ellison
Meter
42. 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
The Day of Doom
Anne Sexton
Broadside
43. 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
Scan
Monologue
Edgar Lee Masters
Meter
44. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Robert Frost
Anne Sexton
Rhyme
William Faulkner
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
Puritan Poetry
Willa Cather
Emile Zola
Lyric Poem
46. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Walt Whitman
Maya Angelou
Sylvia Plath
47. 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'
Booker T. Washington
William S. Burroughs
Norman Mailer
Lyric Poem
48. 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
The 3 primary literary genres
Stephen Crane
Allen Ginsberg
Darwinism
49. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Narrative Poem
Flannery O'Connor
Beat Movement
Modernism
50. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Robert Frost
Jean Toomer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scientism
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