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CLEP American Literature
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1. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
T.S Eliot
Wonders of the Invisible World
Polemic
James Thurbur
2. 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.
Imagist Poetry
Beat Movement
John Steinbeck
John Winthrop
3. 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
Robert Frost
Sylvia Plath
American Adam
4. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
American Adam
Determinism
Broadside
Gothic
5. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Erica Jong
Monologue
Alice Walker
Phillip Roth
6. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Melting Pot
Benjamin Franklin
William Bradford
Booker T. Washington
7. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
James Baldwin
Persona
Willa Cather
Iambic Pentameter
8. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Allegory
Nativism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Edith Wharton
9. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Narrative Poem
Cotton Mather
The 3 primary literary genres
10. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Richard Wright
e.e cummings
Robert Lowell
John Adams
11. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Phillip Roth
Scientism
Jonathan Edwards
Free Verse
12. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Sonnet
John Adams
Determinism
13. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Three main colonial era poets
Edgar Allen Poe
William S. Burroughs
James Fenimore Cooper
14. 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
Atavism
Racialism
Sarah Orne Jewett
Romanticism
15. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Beat Writers
Stanza
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Adams
16. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Willa Cather
Walt Whitman
Lyric Poem
Transcendentalism
17. 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
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Washington Irving
Allen Ginsberg
Poetry
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
Wonders of the Invisible World
Henry David Thoreau
Emily Dickinson
Beat Writers
19. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Anne Sexton
Ernest Hemmingway
Sarah Orne Jewett
W.E.B Du Bois
20. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Mayflower Compact
Edgar Allen Poe
Atavism
Ralph Ellison
21. (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
Foot
Rhyme
Calvinism
Social Darwinism
22. 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.
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
John Winthrop
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edwin Arlington Robinson
23. 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)
Refrain
James Baldwin
Sarah Orne Jewett
24. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Phillip Roth
Loss of Traditional Values
T.S Eliot
Sonnet
25. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
W.E.B Du Bois
Benjamin Franklin
Frank Norris
Henry James
26. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Broadside
John Winthrop
Emile Zola
J.D Salinger
27. (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
Norman Mailer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jonathan Edwards
Beat Writers
28. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Loaded Words
Broadside
Erica Jong
29. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ballad
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nietzscheism
Langston Hughes
30. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Booker T. Washington
Scientism
James Weldon Johnson
Edith Wharton
31. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Foot
Imagist Poetry
Epic Story
Scan
32. Clever - memorable sayings.
Ernest Hemmingway
Genteel Tradition
Iambic Pentameter
Aphorisms
33. Use of medieval - wild - or mysterious elements in literature. Features gloomy settings and horrifying events. Edgar Allen Poe is regarded as the American Master of Gothic writing.
Gothic
Ballad
Free Verse
Mayflower Compact
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
Transcendental Club
Calvinism
Thomas Morton
Thomas Jefferson
35. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Sonnet
Anne Sexton
Genteel Tradition
Romanticism
36. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Langston Hughes
Frank Norris
James Thurbur
Modernism
37. 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
Edith Wharton
Edgar Allen Poe
Benjamin Franklin
Bret Harte
38. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Stanza
Polemic
Rhyme Scheme
Phillip Roth
39. (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
Drama
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Kate Chopin
William Bradford
40. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
James Baldwin
Nietzscheism
Transcendental Club
Polemic
41. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Romanticism
Dorthy Parker
Beat Writers
Scan
42. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
Emily Dickinson
Persona
Narrative Poem
43. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
James Fenimore Cooper
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Darwinism
John Adams
44. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Racialism
Vachel Lindsay
45. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
John Steinbeck
Emile Zola
Modernism
Mary Wilkins Freeman
46. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Washington Irving
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Prose
Samuel Sewall
47. 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
Kate Chopin
Abigail Adams
Drama
Thomas Jefferson
48. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Richard Wright
Nativism
Foot
Henry David Thoreau
49. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Three main colonial era poets
Monologue
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Emile Zola
50. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
Edward Teller
The Day of Doom
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