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CLEP American Literature
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1. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Carl Sandburg
Loss of Traditional Values
Poetry
Rhyme Scheme
2. 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.
American Adam
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
William Byrd
Kate Chopin
3. Ranked as top American novelist - even though few of his contemporaries recognized his genius. Moby Dick is considered to be America's greatest prose epic. It is also top contender for best American novel. Wrote the first great romance about the Sout
Emile Zola
Ernest Hemmingway
Herman Melville
Prose
4. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Nativism
Frank Norris
Loaded Words
Emily Dickinson
5. '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
Edgar Lee Masters
Melting Pot
Allegory
Ernest Hemmingway
6. 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
Edith Wharton
Vachel Lindsay
James Baldwin
Meter
7. A stanza.
Jean Toomer
John Smith
Alice Walker
Verse
8. 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
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Three main colonial era poets
Lyric Poem
9. Wished to return to more primitive principles - to simplicity - sobriety - religious earnestness - and personal self-control. Aim was to purify church of England from 'Popery' - Persecuted harshly by Charles I and Archbishop of Canterbury William Lau
Realism
Aphorisms
Samuel Sewall
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
10. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Persona
Social Darwinism
Loaded Words
Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Jonathan Edwards
Rhyme
Foot
Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Beat Writers
Calvinism
13. 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.
Scan
Sonnet
Atavism
Vachel Lindsay
14. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Henry David Thoreau
Countee Cullen
Transcendentalism
Three main colonial era poets
15. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Booker T. Washington
Stanza
Allen Ginsberg
F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
J.D Salinger
American Adam
Blank Verse
Saul Bellow
17. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Carl Sandburg
Jack Kerouac
Booker T. Washington
The Day of Doom
18. 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.
Transcendentalism
Abigail Adams
James Weldon Johnson
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
19. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Edith Wharton
Nativism
Monologue
J.D Salinger
20. 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
Rhyme
Washington Irving
Poetry
Mary Wilkins Freeman
21. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Polemic
Epic Story
James Baldwin
Transcendental Club
22. 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.
John Steinbeck
Alice Walker
Edward Teller
Bret Harte
23. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Henry David Thoreau
Lyric Poem
Blank Verse
Lyres
24. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
William S. Burroughs
Iambic Pentameter
Theodore Dreiser
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
25. 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
Transcendentalism
William Byrd
Gothic
26. Well-known humorists.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Foot
Edward Teller
27. Local Colorist Wrote 'The Country of the Pointed Firs' Famous for use of idiomatic language - conservative values and imagery and vivid descriptions of rural New England.
Sarah Orne Jewett
James Baldwin
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
28. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Robert Frost
Jack London
Stanza
Foot
29. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Blank Verse
Epic Story
Sonnet
James Weldon Johnson
30. 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
Transcendentalism
Social Darwinism
William Faulkner
Norman Mailer
31. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Sonnet
Toni Morrison
Stanza
Blank Verse
32. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Nietzscheism
Free Verse
Ezra Pound
Loss of Traditional Values
33. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Allegory
Refrain
Romanticism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
34. (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
Determinism
Romanticism
Edith Wharton
Thomas Morton
35. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
William Byrd
Maya Angelou
Naturalism
Nietzscheism
36. 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.
Ralph Ellison
e.e cummings
Jean Toomer
Sarah Orne Jewett
37. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Atavism
Claude McKay
Theodore Dreiser
Nathaniel Hawthorne
38. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Norman Mailer
Kate Chopin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Willa Cather
39. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Jack Kerouac
Meter
The Declaration of Independence
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
40. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
Social Darwinism
Mayflower Compact
Broadside
41. 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
Broadside
Three main colonial era poets
Richard Wright
42. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Beat Movement
Edward Teller
Washington Irving
Edwin Arlington Robinson
43. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Willa Cather
Countee Cullen
Transcendentalism
Racialism
44. 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
Kate Chopin
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Langston Hughes
Puritan Poetry
45. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Abigail Adams
Naturalism
Genteel Tradition
Ralph Ellison
46. 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
Naturalism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Zora Neal Hurston
Broadside
47. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Broadside
Norman Mailer
Henry James
William Bradford
48. 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
Atavism
Theodore Dreiser
Carl Sandburg
Thomas Morton
49. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Free Verse
Edgar Allen Poe
Gwendolyn Brooks
50. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Edward Teller
Abigail Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Willa Cather