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CLEP American Literature
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1. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Saul Bellow
American Adam
Transcendentalism
Melting Pot
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.
Kate Chopin
Robert Frost
Nativism
Allegory
3. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Erica Jong
Robert Frost
Walt Whitman
Stanza
4. (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
Loss of Traditional Values
Jean Toomer
Scan
Thomas Morton
5. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Broadside
Vachel Lindsay
Determinism
Harriet Beecher Stowe
6. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Alice Walker
Frank Norris
Social Darwinism
Nativism
7. 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.
Social Darwinism
Alice Walker
Frederick Douglass
The Day of Doom
8. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
John Smith
Sarah Orne Jewett
Nietzscheism
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
9. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Maya Angelou
Allen Ginsberg
Beat Writers
10. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Countee Cullen
Bret Harte
Allen Ginsberg
Persona
11. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Atavism
Edward Teller
James Weldon Johnson
12. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Anne Sexton
Zora Neal Hurston
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Willa Cather
13. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Imagist Poetry
Theodore Dreiser
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beat Writers
14. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Beat Movement
Ezra Pound
Emily Dickinson
Refrain
15. 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
Emily Dickinson
Samuel Sewall
Free Verse
Mayflower Compact
16. 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
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sylvia Plath
W.E.B Du Bois
17. 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.
Transcendental Club
The 3 primary literary genres
e.e cummings
Washington Irving
18. 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.'
Naturalism
American Adam
John Steinbeck
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
19. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Claude McKay
Erica Jong
Aphorisms
The Day of Doom
20. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
James Baldwin
Theodore Dreiser
Social Darwinism
Beat Writers
21. 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.
Persona
Jean Toomer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gothic
22. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Langston Hughes
Stanza
Jean Toomer
The Day of Doom
23. (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
Loss of Traditional Values
John Winthrop
Darwinism
Calvinism
24. 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
J.D Salinger
American Adam
Beat Movement
Transcendentalism
25. Typically referred to as the greatest American novelist (next to Mark Twain) of the second half of the 19th century. Main theme of his work was the innocence and exuberance of America compared to the corruption and wisdom of Europe. Wrote 'The Portra
William Faulkner
Broadside
Henry James
Walt Whitman
26. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Allegory
Thomas Paine
Edith Wharton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. 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
Lyric Poem
Polemic
Edgar Lee Masters
Booker T. Washington
28. 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.
Jonathan Edwards
Stephen Crane
Social Darwinism
Ralph Ellison
29. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Walt Whitman
Imagist Poetry
Frederick Douglass
J.D Salinger
30. 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'
William S. Burroughs
Rhyme
Transcendentalism
Meter
31. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
James Fenimore Cooper
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Lyres
W.E.B Du Bois
32. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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33. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Scan
Beat Writers
Edgar Lee Masters
Imagist Poetry
34. The repeated use of identical sounds.
The Declaration of Independence
Rhyme
Loss of Traditional Values
Edith Wharton
35. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Nietzscheism
Phillip Roth
Ernest Hemmingway
Robert Frost
36. 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
Bret Harte
Beat Movement
Imagist Poetry
Benjamin Franklin
37. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Maya Angelou
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagist Poetry
Broadside
38. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Jack London
Modernism
Ralph Ellison
William Byrd
39. '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
Ernest Hemmingway
Refrain
Benjamin Franklin
Determinism
40. 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.
Realism
The Day of Doom
Henry James
Ralph Ellison
41. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Prose
Drama
Poetry
John Smith
42. Created new poetic forms and subjects to fashion a distinctly American type of poetic expression. Rejected conventional themes - traditional literary references - allusions - and rhymes. Used long lines to capture rhythms of natural speech - free ver
Theodore Dreiser
J.D Salinger
Thomas Morton
Walt Whitman
43. 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
Darwinism
Three main colonial era poets
Naturalism
Rhyme
44. 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
John Smith
Washington Irving
J.D Salinger
Emile Zola
45. (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
Jack Kerouac
Benjamin Franklin
Jonathan Edwards
Edith Wharton
46. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Booker T. Washington
The Declaration of Independence
Persona
47. 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.
Herman Melville
e.e cummings
William Faulkner
Naturalism
48. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Alice Walker
Allen Ginsberg
Monologue
William Bradford
49. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
Ralph Ellison
Walt Whitman
Bret Harte
50. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Rhyme
Gwendolyn Brooks
Romanticism
Realism
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