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CLEP American Literature
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1. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Broadside
Allen Ginsberg
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Scientism
2. 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.
Lyres
Social Darwinism
Poetry
Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Dorthy Parker
Jonathan Edwards
Jack Kerouac
Scientism
4. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Abigail Adams
Ballad
Bret Harte
William Byrd
5. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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6. 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.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Stephen Crane
Lyric Poem
7. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Jack London
The 3 primary literary genres
Alice Walker
Edwin Arlington Robinson
8. 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.
Thomas Morton
Realism
William Faulkner
Foot
9. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Saul Bellow
Melting Pot
Verse
Booker T. Washington
10. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Henry James
Monologue
Kate Chopin
James Weldon Johnson
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
William S. Burroughs
Transcendental Club
Thomas Paine
Cotton Mather
12. (Colonial Period) One of the most brilliant of American thinkers. Theologian and philosopher; vigorous defender of Calvinistic orthodoxy at the end of the Puritan era. Influenced major nineteenth century writers such as Emerson - Hawthorne - Melville
American Adam
The Day of Doom
Allegory
Jonathan Edwards
13. 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
Nativism
Ballad
Gwendolyn Brooks
14. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
Modernism
Kate Chopin
Three main colonial era poets
15. 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.
Jack Kerouac
Edgar Lee Masters
Nativism
Transcendentalism
16. 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.'
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Mayflower Compact
Flannery O'Connor
Broadside
17. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Robert Frost
Racialism
Iambic Pentameter
Scientism
18. 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
Meter
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Allen Poe
19. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Meter
Nativism
American Adam
Edward Teller
20. 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.
Richard Wright
William Faulkner
Robert Lowell
Walt Whitman
21. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dorthy Parker
Prose
Edwin Arlington Robinson
22. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
James Baldwin
Nietzscheism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Adam
23. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Darwinism
Emily Dickinson
Norman Mailer
Allegory
24. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Toni Morrison
Polemic
Norman Mailer
Henry David Thoreau
25. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Adams
J.D Salinger
Rhyme Scheme
26. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Mary Wilkins Freeman
W.E.B Du Bois
Nietzscheism
Epic Story
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.
Washington Irving
Epic Story
James Baldwin
Blank Verse
28. 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.
Washington Irving
Countee Cullen
Kate Chopin
James Baldwin
29. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Poetry
Dorthy Parker
Foot
Loss of Traditional Values
30. 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
Melting Pot
The 3 primary literary genres
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ezra Pound
31. 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.
Benjamin Franklin
Racialism
Darwinism
Nathaniel Hawthorne
32. 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
The Day of Doom
Genteel Tradition
John Adams
33. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
The 3 primary literary genres
Maya Angelou
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Langston Hughes
34. 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
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Transcendentalism
Rhythm
Sylvia Plath
35. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Ralph Ellison
John Adams
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Foot
36. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Langston Hughes
The 3 primary literary genres
Anne Sexton
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
37. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Sylvia Plath
Determinism
Maya Angelou
Benjamin Franklin
38. Wrote 'Grapes of Wrath -' 'Of Mice and Men -' and 'East of Eden -' and 'Winter of Our Discontent.' Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature - Pulitzer and and the National Book Award.
William Byrd
Jonathan Edwards
John Steinbeck
William Bradford
39. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Transcendentalism
Genteel Tradition
John Adams
Rhyme
40. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Polemic
Allen Ginsberg
Prose
Racialism
41. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Racialism
Langston Hughes
Rhythm
Thomas Jefferson
42. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Henry David Thoreau
The 3 primary literary genres
Iambic Pentameter
Poetry
43. 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
Racialism
John Adams
Mary Wilkins Freeman
44. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Carl Sandburg
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jack Kerouac
Nativism
45. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Benjamin Franklin
Blank Verse
John Winthrop
46. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
W.E.B Du Bois
Countee Cullen
Social Darwinism
Jonathan Edwards
47. 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
Robert Lowell
Kate Chopin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
48. 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
Allegory
Jack London
Edith Wharton
Jonathan Edwards
49. 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
Transcendental Club
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Iambic Pentameter
Abigail Adams
50. 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
Thomas Jefferson
Walt Whitman
Nativism