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CLEP American Literature
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1. (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
Benjamin Franklin
John Steinbeck
Cotton Mather
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Erica Jong
Willa Cather
Nativism
Lyric Poem
3. 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
Sonnet
Iambic Pentameter
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Langston Hughes
4. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Emile Zola
Prose
William Faulkner
Dorthy Parker
5. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
James Baldwin
Iambic Pentameter
Carl Sandburg
Maya Angelou
6. 'The Old Man and the Sea -' 'The Sun Also Rises -' 'A Farewell to Arms -' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Writing style emphasizes: Short sentences - brief paragraphs - active verbs - authenticity - compression - clarity - and immediacy. Produced some
William Byrd
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemmingway
Ralph Ellison
7. All events follow natural laws.
Imagist Poetry
James Thurbur
Determinism
Loss of Traditional Values
8. 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.
Iambic Pentameter
Willa Cather
The Day of Doom
Nativism
9. 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
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Robert Lowell
Thomas Paine
Sarah Orne Jewett
10. Well-known humorists.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Benjamin Franklin
Walt Whitman
Allen Ginsberg
11. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Robert Lowell
Imagist Poetry
Drama
Foot
12. 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
Walt Whitman
Frank Norris
Richard Wright
13. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Flannery O'Connor
The Declaration of Independence
Loaded Words
Saul Bellow
14. 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
Willa Cather
The Day of Doom
15. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Kate Chopin
Iambic Pentameter
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
16. A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's - in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature - and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter - intuiti
Scan
Calvinism
Transcendentalism
Lyric Poem
17. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Thomas Jefferson
Sonnet
Lyres
Verse
18. Chicago School - Wrote 'Lucinda Matlock' - Created 'Spoon River Anthology' - Spoon River poems are characterized by: An unpoetic - colloquial style - frank descriptions of sex - a very critical view of small town life - and a description of he inner
Edgar Lee Masters
Lyric Poem
Monologue
Epic Story
19. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Darwinism
Thomas Jefferson
Dorthy Parker
Nathaniel Hawthorne
20. 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.
Anne Sexton
Genteel Tradition
Persona
Realism
21. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Allegory
Zora Neal Hurston
William S. Burroughs
Scientism
22. 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
Kate Chopin
Racialism
Thomas Paine
Transcendental Club
23. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Romanticism
Zora Neal Hurston
W.E.B Du Bois
The 3 primary literary genres
24. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Nativism
Kate Chopin
Three main colonial era poets
Imagist Poetry
25. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Abigail Adams
Benjamin Franklin
James Baldwin
John Steinbeck
26. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Jack Kerouac
Calvinism
Persona
Lyres
27. 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'
Toni Morrison
Allegory
Henry David Thoreau
Broadside
28. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Richard Wright
Claude McKay
Genteel Tradition
Edith Wharton
29. (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
Rhyme Scheme
Calvinism
Langston Hughes
Allen Ginsberg
30. 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
John Adams
Henry David Thoreau
The 3 primary literary genres
Sylvia Plath
31. 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
William Faulkner
Stephen Crane
Countee Cullen
Imagist Poetry
32. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Emily Dickinson
Broadside
Verse
Toni Morrison
33. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Stephen Crane
Prose
James Weldon Johnson
William Byrd
34. (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
Abigail Adams
Kate Chopin
Puritan Poetry
Genteel Tradition
35. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
Claude McKay
Racialism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
36. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Benjamin Franklin
Iambic Pentameter
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. 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
Carl Sandburg
Imagist Poetry
Foot
38. 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.
William Bradford
Frank Norris
Puritan Poetry
Mayflower Compact
39. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Mary Wilkins Freeman
e.e cummings
Poetry
Thomas Jefferson
40. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
John Winthrop
Frank Norris
Romanticism
Maya Angelou
41. 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
Sonnet
Willa Cather
The Declaration of Independence
42. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Anne Sexton
Poetry
Nativism
Puritan Poetry
43. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Sonnet
Abigail Adams
Naturalism
Theodore Dreiser
44. 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.
John Steinbeck
The Day of Doom
e.e cummings
Nietzscheism
45. 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
Modernism
Wonders of the Invisible World
Abigail Adams
Poetry
46. 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
Alice Walker
Puritan Poetry
Transcendentalism
47. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Robert Lowell
Scan
Norman Mailer
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
48. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sarah Orne Jewett
Henry David Thoreau
J.D Salinger
49. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Thomas Morton
Ballad
American Adam
Genteel Tradition
50. Prose - Poetry - Drama
The 3 primary literary genres
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Emily Dickinson
Langston Hughes