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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Gwendolyn Brooks
Thomas Paine
Henry David Thoreau
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
2. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
T.S Eliot
Anne Sexton
Lyric Poem
Bret Harte
3. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Edward Teller
Prose
Determinism
Emile Zola
4. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Benjamin Franklin
Rhyme
Iambic Pentameter
Beat Writers
5. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Robert Lowell
Theodore Dreiser
Beat Writers
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
6. (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
Richard Wright
Wonders of the Invisible World
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Cotton Mather
7. Work did not have a political agenda. Wrote 'Their Eyes Were Watching God -' 'Mules and Men -' and 'Jonahs Gourd Vine.' Considered one of the key black writers of the 20th Century.
Zora Neal Hurston
Rhyme
Washington Irving
Emile Zola
8. 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
Edith Wharton
Robert Lowell
Imagist Poetry
Wonders of the Invisible World
9. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
James Weldon Johnson
Erica Jong
Racialism
Nietzscheism
10. 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
Loss of Traditional Values
Melting Pot
11. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
James Fenimore Cooper
Polemic
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrative Poem
12. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
J.D Salinger
Mayflower Compact
Abigail Adams
Thomas Morton
13. Key intellectual and philosophical voice of 19th-century America. Key player in the transcendentalist movement. First to define what made American poetry American - it is verse that celebrates ordinary experience rather than the epic themes of the pa
Jonathan Edwards
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
e.e cummings
14. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
The Day of Doom
Transcendentalism
Darwinism
Refrain
15. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Iambic Pentameter
Allen Ginsberg
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Jack London
16. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Jack London
Blank Verse
Determinism
Calvinism
17. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
James Thurbur
The Declaration of Independence
The Day of Doom
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
18. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Frank Norris
William Byrd
Flannery O'Connor
Imagist Poetry
19. 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
Genteel Tradition
Mayflower Compact
Robert Lowell
20. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Allegory
Edith Wharton
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Refrain
21. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Theodore Dreiser
Social Darwinism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dorthy Parker
22. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Jean Toomer
Poetry
Persona
Cotton Mather
23. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
James Fenimore Cooper
Gwendolyn Brooks
24. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Samuel Sewall
Robert Lowell
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dorthy Parker
25. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Calvinism
William Byrd
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American Adam
26. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Melting Pot
Anne Sexton
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Zora Neal Hurston
27. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Benjamin Franklin
Carl Sandburg
Beat Writers
Sonnet
28. 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
The Day of Doom
Ezra Pound
Nietzscheism
29. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Loss of Traditional Values
T.S Eliot
Monologue
Wonders of the Invisible World
30. 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.
Blank Verse
Mayflower Compact
Rhyme
Lyric Poem
31. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Foot
Vachel Lindsay
Maya Angelou
Norman Mailer
32. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Lee Masters
Alice Walker
Prose
33. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
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The Declaration of Independence
Erica Jong
Meter
34. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Monologue
John Steinbeck
Sylvia Plath
Darwinism
35. 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.
Richard Wright
John Steinbeck
Emily Dickinson
Rhythm
36. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Lyric Poem
Loss of Traditional Values
Rhyme
Epic Story
37. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Washington Irving
The Declaration of Independence
Broadside
Foot
38. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Ralph Ellison
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Walt Whitman
Refrain
39. (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
Social Darwinism
Scan
Thomas Morton
Ezra Pound
40. 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
Washington Irving
Maya Angelou
Free Verse
Sonnet
41. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Prose
Naturalism
James Fenimore Cooper
Mary Wilkins Freeman
42. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
Naturalism
Epic Story
43. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
Countee Cullen
Gwendolyn Brooks
Frederick Douglass
44. Wrote 'Songs of Jamaica' - Poetry and 'Harlem Shadows' (first great literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance. Much of his poetry evokes the rich heritage of Jamaica.
Claude McKay
Richard Wright
Scientism
Gothic
45. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Nietzscheism
Narrative Poem
Sonnet
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
46. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Herman Melville
Three main colonial era poets
Rhythm
Henry James
47. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Calvinism
Frank Norris
Social Darwinism
Polemic
48. 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.
Henry James
Imagist Poetry
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sarah Orne Jewett
49. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Prose
Loaded Words
Broadside
Free Verse
50. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Edith Wharton
Herman Melville
Maya Angelou
Ernest Hemmingway