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CLEP American Literature
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1. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Sonnet
Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Allen Poe
Toni Morrison
2. 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.
Zora Neal Hurston
Langston Hughes
American Adam
Benjamin Franklin
3. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Meter
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Lowell
Determinism
4. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Sonnet
Maya Angelou
Ezra Pound
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
5. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
American Adam
Thomas Morton
Stanza
Ralph Ellison
6. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Loss of Traditional Values
Loaded Words
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lyric Poem
7. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Frank Norris
Narrative Poem
Willa Cather
Monologue
8. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Narrative Poem
Racialism
Willa Cather
Edwin Arlington Robinson
9. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Puritan Poetry
Darwinism
Broadside
10. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Allen Ginsberg
Theodore Dreiser
Lyric Poem
Thomas Morton
11. Ben Franklin paid his passage to America. First Pamphlet was Common Sense : credited with getting the colonists to see the 'advantage - necessity - and obligation' of breaking with Britain. Followed by a series of pamphlets - collectively called 'An
Meter
Thomas Paine
Monologue
James Weldon Johnson
12. 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
Rhythm
Transcendental Club
Mayflower Compact
James Thurbur
13. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Free Verse
Samuel Sewall
William Byrd
Frank Norris
14. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Gothic
John Winthrop
Meter
The 3 primary literary genres
15. (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
Henry James
Thomas Morton
Frederick Douglass
Melting Pot
16. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Poetry
Iambic Pentameter
Alice Walker
Beat Writers
17. (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
Modernism
William Bradford
Prose
William Byrd
18. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Free Verse
Robert Frost
Prose
19. (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
Robert Lowell
Iambic Pentameter
Carl Sandburg
Puritan Poetry
20. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Determinism
Jonathan Edwards
Henry James
Theodore Dreiser
21. 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
Allen Ginsberg
Emily Dickinson
Nietzscheism
Edgar Allen Poe
22. 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
Lyres
James Baldwin
Naturalism
Jonathan Edwards
23. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Stephen Crane
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maya Angelou
Dorthy Parker
24. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Allegory
Anne Sexton
Stanza
W.E.B Du Bois
25. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Vachel Lindsay
Robert Frost
Genteel Tradition
The 3 primary literary genres
26. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
J.D Salinger
Frank Norris
Sylvia Plath
Scientism
27. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
James Baldwin
Zora Neal Hurston
Modernism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Rhyme Scheme
Broadside
Aphorisms
Rhythm
29. Clever - memorable sayings.
Cotton Mather
Aphorisms
Flannery O'Connor
Lyric Poem
30. 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
Ballad
Emily Dickinson
Romanticism
Robert Lowell
31. 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
William Byrd
T.S Eliot
Sylvia Plath
Washington Irving
32. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Kate Chopin
Poetry
Frank Norris
Stanza
33. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Robert Frost
Henry David Thoreau
Henry James
Monologue
34. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Booker T. Washington
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Social Darwinism
John Smith
35. 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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atavism
Walt Whitman
Washington Irving
36. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
J.D Salinger
The Declaration of Independence
Saul Bellow
William Faulkner
37. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Claude McKay
Narrative Poem
Robert Frost
Edith Wharton
38. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Dorthy Parker
Prose
Thomas Morton
Determinism
39. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Edward Teller
Sarah Orne Jewett
Gwendolyn Brooks
Broadside
40. 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
Foot
Claude McKay
Anne Sexton
Stephen Crane
41. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Aphorisms
Calvinism
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Persona
42. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Jack Kerouac
Beat Writers
Anne Sexton
Frederick Douglass
43. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Loss of Traditional Values
Verse
Ballad
Dorthy Parker
44. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Refrain
John Smith
Phillip Roth
Erica Jong
45. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Imagist Poetry
Jack London
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Aphorisms
46. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Benjamin Franklin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lyric Poem
Drama
47. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Drama
Frederick Douglass
Rhyme Scheme
48. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Allegory
Mayflower Compact
Puritan Poetry
Rhyme Scheme
49. 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
John Steinbeck
Calvinism
John Smith
50. 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.'
Ballad
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Free Verse
John Winthrop