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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stephen Crane
Beat Writers
Willa Cather
2. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Jack London
Toni Morrison
Robert Lowell
Realism
3. 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
Edward Teller
Genteel Tradition
Sarah Orne Jewett
Imagist Poetry
4. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
Social Darwinism
Walt Whitman
Sylvia Plath
5. Well-known humorists.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Toni Morrison
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Washington Irving
6. All events follow natural laws.
e.e cummings
Phillip Roth
James Baldwin
Determinism
7. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Nietzscheism
Bret Harte
8. 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
William Faulkner
Walt Whitman
Henry James
9. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Social Darwinism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Free Verse
W.E.B Du Bois
10. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Jean Toomer
Benjamin Franklin
Three main colonial era poets
Carl Sandburg
11. (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
Benjamin Franklin
Broadside
Calvinism
Beat Movement
12. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Broadside
William Byrd
Alice Walker
James Thurbur
13. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Bret Harte
Naturalism
Three main colonial era poets
Persona
14. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Racialism
Polemic
Persona
Beat Movement
15. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Prose
Darwinism
Rhyme
Lyric Poem
16. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Puritan Poetry
Carl Sandburg
Mayflower Compact
Anne Sexton
17. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Allen Ginsberg
Broadside
Alice Walker
Anne Sexton
18. 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.
Genteel Tradition
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Meter
19. (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
W.E.B Du Bois
Aphorisms
William Bradford
John Smith
20. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Naturalism
Claude McKay
Free Verse
Robert Frost
21. (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
Flannery O'Connor
Atavism
Alice Walker
Cotton Mather
22. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
James Baldwin
Booker T. Washington
Dorthy Parker
Blank Verse
23. 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
Beat Movement
Cotton Mather
Bret Harte
Harriet Beecher Stowe
24. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Polemic
e.e cummings
William S. Burroughs
Samuel Sewall
25. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
John Adams
Monologue
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Robert Lowell
26. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
John Adams
Imagist Poetry
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Puritan Poetry
27. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Modernism
Narrative Poem
Ezra Pound
Romanticism
28. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Herman Melville
Theodore Dreiser
Ezra Pound
Transcendental Club
29. 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
Walt Whitman
Gothic
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Stephen Crane
30. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Gothic
Emile Zola
Broadside
Cotton Mather
31. (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
Sarah Orne Jewett
Scan
Thomas Morton
American Adam
32. 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
Walt Whitman
Jack London
Poetry
33. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jean Toomer
Edith Wharton
34. 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.
Verse
Nietzscheism
Mayflower Compact
Meter
35. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Polemic
Imagist Poetry
Allegory
Jack London
36. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Gothic
Frank Norris
Broadside
Edith Wharton
37. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Countee Cullen
Frederick Douglass
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edward Teller
38. 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.
Realism
Emily Dickinson
Saul Bellow
Walt Whitman
39. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Countee Cullen
T.S Eliot
Wonders of the Invisible World
Booker T. Washington
40. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Washington Irving
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Loaded Words
41. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Flannery O'Connor
Darwinism
Allen Ginsberg
Dorthy Parker
42. 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
Genteel Tradition
Edward Teller
Stephen Crane
Meter
43. 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
Naturalism
Zora Neal Hurston
Carl Sandburg
Modernism
44. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Thomas Morton
Willa Cather
William Faulkner
Polemic
45. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Rhythm
Determinism
Transcendentalism
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
46. Typically referred to as the greatest American novelist (next to Mark Twain) of the second half of the 19th century. Main theme of his work was the innocence and exuberance of America compared to the corruption and wisdom of Europe. Wrote 'The Portra
Henry James
Modernism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Thomas Morton
47. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Kate Chopin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stanza
Saul Bellow
48. (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
James Baldwin
Wonders of the Invisible World
Samuel Sewall
49. She holds a unique place in American history as both the wife of one president and the mother of another. In her own right - she was an ardent American patriot. Her perseverance during the American Revolution kept her family together and enabled her
Atavism
Abigail Adams
Broadside
T.S Eliot
50. 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.
Gothic
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Willa Cather
Imagist Poetry