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CLEP American Literature
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1. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
John Winthrop
Blank Verse
Vachel Lindsay
Norman Mailer
2. 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.
e.e cummings
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Frost
Richard Wright
3. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Transcendentalism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
William Byrd
Toni Morrison
4. 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
J.D Salinger
James Fenimore Cooper
Phillip Roth
Henry David Thoreau
5. 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.
Cotton Mather
Beat Movement
Frank Norris
Social Darwinism
6. 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
Zora Neal Hurston
Atavism
Thomas Jefferson
Edith Wharton
7. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Atavism
Flannery O'Connor
The 3 primary literary genres
Ballad
8. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
William Faulkner
Zora Neal Hurston
Frank Norris
Beat Movement
9. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
J.D Salinger
Richard Wright
Darwinism
Herman Melville
10. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Imagist Poetry
Broadside
Sylvia Plath
11. 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.
William Faulkner
Determinism
Willa Cather
Mayflower Compact
12. 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
The Day of Doom
Walt Whitman
Social Darwinism
Richard Wright
13. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Herman Melville
Rhyme Scheme
Calvinism
Toni Morrison
14. 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 Kerouac
Drama
Carl Sandburg
The Declaration of Independence
15. 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'
Henry David Thoreau
Claude McKay
Ralph Ellison
Toni Morrison
16. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Edward Teller
Thomas Paine
Samuel Sewall
17. 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
Romanticism
Polemic
Puritan Poetry
Transcendental Club
18. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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19. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
e.e cummings
Vachel Lindsay
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Harriet Beecher Stowe
20. 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
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Racialism
21. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Phillip Roth
Sylvia Plath
James Weldon Johnson
Flannery O'Connor
22. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Verse
Foot
Poetry
Edith Wharton
23. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Allen Ginsberg
Norman Mailer
Sylvia Plath
Drama
24. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Lyric Poem
Countee Cullen
Edward Teller
Iambic Pentameter
25. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
William Byrd
Meter
Zora Neal Hurston
Robert Frost
26. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Flannery O'Connor
Refrain
Imagist Poetry
27. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
John Winthrop
Racialism
American Adam
Stephen Crane
28. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Wonders of the Invisible World
T.S Eliot
Edgar Lee Masters
Foot
29. (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
Modernism
Thomas Paine
John Winthrop
e.e cummings
30. 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.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Claude McKay
Stanza
John Steinbeck
31. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Edgar Allen Poe
Jack London
Langston Hughes
Melting Pot
32. 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.
Melting Pot
Realism
Abigail Adams
Booker T. Washington
33. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Jonathan Edwards
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nietzscheism
Sonnet
34. 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
Dorthy Parker
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mayflower Compact
Ezra Pound
35. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Poetry
Walt Whitman
Henry James
36. 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
Flannery O'Connor
T.S Eliot
Transcendental Club
Edgar Allen Poe
37. 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
Bret Harte
Countee Cullen
Claude McKay
Allen Ginsberg
38. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Thomas Jefferson
Iambic Pentameter
Edgar Allen Poe
Nietzscheism
39. (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
Edgar Allen Poe
John Winthrop
40. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Lyric Poem
Genteel Tradition
William Byrd
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
41. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Toni Morrison
Realism
Rhythm
Rhyme
42. 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.
William S. Burroughs
Transcendentalism
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Blank Verse
43. 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
Claude McKay
Gothic
Edgar Allen Poe
Thomas Paine
44. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Phillip Roth
William S. Burroughs
American Adam
Three main colonial era poets
45. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Alice Walker
Lyres
Jean Toomer
Rhyme
46. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Drama
Darwinism
Claude McKay
47. 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
James Thurbur
Stanza
John Steinbeck
Emily Dickinson
48. End : occurs when words at the ends of lines of poetry rhyme. Internal: occurs when words within a sentences share the same sound - such as 'Each narrow cell in which we dwell.'
Genteel Tradition
American Adam
Rhythm
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
49. Pilgrim's constitution. Shaped the politics - religion - and social behavior of the first settlers. Eventually influenced the shape - style and content of the U.S Constitution. William Bradford was famous for being one of the authors and signers.
Norman Mailer
Iambic Pentameter
Verse
Mayflower Compact
50. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Imagist Poetry
Samuel Sewall
Frank Norris
Nativism