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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'






2. A stanza.






3. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'






4. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'






5. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet






6. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot






7. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.






8. 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






9. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet






10. 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






11. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.

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12. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.






13. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.






14. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.






15. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.






16. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.






17. (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






18. 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






19. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'






20. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'






21. 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.






22. An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th Century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature - emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination - departure from the attitudes and forms of






23. 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






24. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.






25. (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






26. 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.






27. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.






28. (Colonial Period) Began 'The History of New England' aboard the Arbella in 1630. Lead 2 -000 English emigrant to Massachusetts Bay. Made daily journal-style entries until his death. Intended it to be an account of his long governorship. Style is pla






29. (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






30. 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.






31. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.






32. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.






33. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'






34. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist






35. 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'






36. 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.'






37. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.






38. Prose - Poetry - Drama






39. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.






40. Well-known humorists.






41. American novelist - essayist - social critic - painter and spoken performer. Most of his works are autobiographical. Frequently experimented with drugs. He wrote the 'Naked Lunch' and the 'Cities of Red Night'






42. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.






43. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.






44. 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






45. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.






46. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.






47. 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






48. Clever - memorable sayings.






49. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.






50. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.