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CLEP American Literature
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1. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
The 3 primary literary genres
Rhythm
Wonders of the Invisible World
Cotton Mather
2. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
John Winthrop
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Lowell
Rhyme Scheme
3. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
The Declaration of Independence
Jack Kerouac
Gothic
Lyric Poem
4. (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
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Morton
Frank Norris
Rhythm
5. 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
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Robert Frost
Carl Sandburg
Langston Hughes
6. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Maya Angelou
Calvinism
Ballad
Lyres
7. (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
Ralph Ellison
Lyric Poem
Jonathan Edwards
William Byrd
8. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Erica Jong
Scan
Scientism
John Adams
9. Credited with creating: the modern short story and the detective novel - and the entire genre of mystery. Wrote 'The Philosophy of Composition' - 'The Raven' - 'Tell-Tale Heart -' 'The Cask of Amontillado -' and 'The Gold Bug.' (The first detective
Lyric Poem
Edgar Allen Poe
Thomas Morton
Frederick Douglass
10. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Theodore Dreiser
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sonnet
John Winthrop
11. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Melting Pot
Edgar Lee Masters
Drama
Countee Cullen
12. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
William Byrd
Aphorisms
Stephen Crane
Calvinism
13. 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.
Walt Whitman
Nativism
The Day of Doom
The 3 primary literary genres
14. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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15. 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.
Erica Jong
James Fenimore Cooper
Prose
Sarah Orne Jewett
16. All events follow natural laws.
Frank Norris
Determinism
Theodore Dreiser
Prose
17. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Nietzscheism
Meter
Vachel Lindsay
W.E.B Du Bois
18. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Refrain
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Genteel Tradition
19. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Sylvia Plath
Lyric Poem
Maya Angelou
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
20. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Modernism
John Smith
James Baldwin
Poetry
21. (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
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Bradford
Zora Neal Hurston
Iambic Pentameter
22. 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
Emily Dickinson
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Walt Whitman
23. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Booker T. Washington
James Fenimore Cooper
Calvinism
Free Verse
24. 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
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Walt Whitman
Stanza
Melting Pot
25. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Maya Angelou
Poetry
Monologue
Epic Story
26. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Transcendental Club
Alice Walker
W.E.B Du Bois
Claude McKay
27. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Stanza
Carl Sandburg
Racialism
Imagist Poetry
28. 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.
Broadside
Foot
Samuel Sewall
Frederick Douglass
29. 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
Realism
Samuel Sewall
James Fenimore Cooper
Wonders of the Invisible World
30. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Carl Sandburg
Refrain
Scan
Broadside
31. 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.
Lyres
Beat Writers
William Faulkner
The 3 primary literary genres
32. Wrote 'Songs of Jamaica' - Poetry and 'Harlem Shadows' (first great literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance. Much of his poetry evokes the rich heritage of Jamaica.
Benjamin Franklin
Claude McKay
Scientism
Cotton Mather
33. (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
Cotton Mather
The 3 primary literary genres
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Transcendentalism
34. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Loss of Traditional Values
Robert Lowell
Cotton Mather
Henry James
35. 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
Poetry
Emily Dickinson
Saul Bellow
The Day of Doom
36. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
American Adam
Polemic
James Fenimore Cooper
Naturalism
37. 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.
Dorthy Parker
Saul Bellow
Emile Zola
Thomas Morton
38. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
e.e cummings
James Weldon Johnson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Prose
39. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Frank Norris
Dorthy Parker
Polemic
William Faulkner
40. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Stanza
Benjamin Franklin
Allen Ginsberg
Robert Frost
41. Characterized by: Ordinary Language - Free Verse - Concentrated Word Pictures - Very specific words and phrases - Advanced by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell; also utilized by Robert Frost
Stanza
Calvinism
Sonnet
Imagist Poetry
42. (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
Benjamin Franklin
Drama
Edgar Lee Masters
John Winthrop
43. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
The 3 primary literary genres
e.e cummings
Vachel Lindsay
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
44. Father of American Literature - First American writer to achieve an international reputation. Rip Van Winkle (antihero). Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Devil and Tom Walker. Was 50 years old before his real name appeared on any of his books. Used alias
Washington Irving
Stephen Crane
Edith Wharton
Modernism
45. 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
Social Darwinism
Ezra Pound
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Langston Hughes
46. A stanza.
Naturalism
Verse
Narrative Poem
Jack Kerouac
47. 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
Darwinism
Ballad
Transcendentalism
48. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
J.D Salinger
Genteel Tradition
Jack Kerouac
Edgar Allen Poe
49. 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
Stanza
Henry David Thoreau
Samuel Sewall
Lyric Poem
50. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Edgar Lee Masters
Emily Dickinson
Poetry
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century