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CLEP American Literature
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1. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
e.e cummings
Polemic
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kate Chopin
2. 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
Drama
Monologue
Transcendentalism
Washington Irving
3. 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
Broadside
Jack Kerouac
Anne Sexton
4. Wrote 'Richard Cory' - Created poems dealing with historic myths and characters. Known primarily for short - ironic characteristics of ordinary individuals. Won 3 Pulitzers : 'Collected Poems -' 'The Man Who Died Twice -' and 'Tristram'
The Day of Doom
Gwendolyn Brooks
Frank Norris
Edwin Arlington Robinson
5. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Lyres
Melting Pot
Atavism
American Adam
6. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Broadside
Persona
Edgar Allen Poe
7. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Allegory
Jean Toomer
Jack Kerouac
Lyres
8. 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nativism
Henry David Thoreau
Gwendolyn Brooks
9. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Maya Angelou
Allen Ginsberg
Puritan Poetry
Ernest Hemmingway
10. The belief that 'true' Americans were those of earlier Anglo-Saxon descent - and that this 'race' was under threat from the growing influx of Central European and Asian immigrants.
Lyric Poem
Nativism
William Faulkner
Aphorisms
11. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Anne Sexton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Willa Cather
Robert Frost
12. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Scan
Monologue
John Steinbeck
Transcendentalism
13. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Broadside
Lyric Poem
Sarah Orne Jewett
Anne Sexton
14. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Nietzscheism
William Byrd
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Kate Chopin
15. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Samuel Sewall
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Frank Norris
Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
James Thurbur
Claude McKay
Ezra Pound
Edwin Arlington Robinson
17. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Anne Sexton
Beat Movement
Atavism
Ralph Ellison
18. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Naturalism
Allegory
Claude McKay
John Steinbeck
19. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Stanza
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Aphorisms
Henry David Thoreau
20. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Washington Irving
The Declaration of Independence
Norman Mailer
Determinism
21. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Wonders of the Invisible World
Lyres
Vachel Lindsay
Jack Kerouac
22. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Racialism
Sonnet
Prose
23. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Persona
Allen Ginsberg
Prose
T.S Eliot
24. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Rhyme
Foot
William Byrd
John Adams
25. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
J.D Salinger
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Transcendentalism
Lyric Poem
26. The Bard of Harlem; most successful black writer in America during the Harlem Renaissance. Wanted to capture the dominant oral traditions of black culture in written form. Best known for his poetry: 'The Weary Blues -' 'Fields of Wonder -' and 'The D
Langston Hughes
Flannery O'Connor
Henry James
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
27. 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
Frederick Douglass
Persona
Walt Whitman
Abigail Adams
28. 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
Nietzscheism
Stephen Crane
The Day of Doom
Gothic
29. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Lyres
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
John Adams
Walt Whitman
30. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Edith Wharton
Countee Cullen
Modernism
Scan
31. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
John Steinbeck
Wonders of the Invisible World
Abigail Adams
Puritan Poetry
32. 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.
Frederick Douglass
James Baldwin
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Vachel Lindsay
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
Jack Kerouac
Nietzscheism
Bret Harte
34. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ballad
Narrative Poem
Social Darwinism
Meter
35. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Blank Verse
Thomas Morton
Countee Cullen
Nietzscheism
36. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Nativism
Sonnet
Robert Lowell
Calvinism
37. 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
Carl Sandburg
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
James Weldon Johnson
Edgar Allen Poe
38. 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.
W.E.B Du Bois
Claude McKay
The Day of Doom
Ezra Pound
39. Well-known humorists.
Determinism
William Byrd
Cotton Mather
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
40. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Sylvia Plath
William Byrd
Langston Hughes
Three main colonial era poets
41. Considered the greatest humorist of 19th century American Literature. Wrote 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' Master of 'Local Color' writing. Used vernacular - exaggeration and deadpan narrator to create humor.
Henry James
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Thomas Morton
Lyric Poem
42. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Zora Neal Hurston
Edward Teller
Alice Walker
W.E.B Du Bois
43. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
William S. Burroughs
Monologue
Benjamin Franklin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
44. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Booker T. Washington
Drama
T.S Eliot
Carl Sandburg
45. 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.
John Winthrop
Booker T. Washington
Lyric Poem
Realism
46. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Three main colonial era poets
Walt Whitman
Social Darwinism
Meter
47. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Lyric Poem
Saul Bellow
Alice Walker
Ernest Hemmingway
48. Local Colorist Wrote 'The Awakening' Writing is memorable for its : Vivid and economical style - Rich Local Dialect - and Penetrating view of the culture of South Louisiana.
Kate Chopin
Gwendolyn Brooks
Harriet Beecher Stowe
J.D Salinger
49. 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
Meter
Carl Sandburg
Samuel Sewall
Genteel Tradition
50. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Thomas Morton
Sylvia Plath
Theodore Dreiser
Scientism
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