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CLEP American Literature
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1. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
James Thurbur
Loss of Traditional Values
Sonnet
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2. 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
The Day of Doom
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Thomas Jefferson
3. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bret Harte
Lyres
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
4. 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
Stephen Crane
Modernism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scientism
5. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Ballad
Beat Writers
Verse
James Baldwin
6. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Imagist Poetry
Benjamin Franklin
Herman Melville
7. 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
Polemic
Rhythm
Henry James
Norman Mailer
8. 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'
American Adam
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Monologue
Zora Neal Hurston
9. 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.
Epic Story
Ernest Hemmingway
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Benjamin Franklin
10. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Verse
Lyric Poem
Erica Jong
Stanza
11. 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.
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Zora Neal Hurston
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Lyres
12. 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.
Countee Cullen
Dorthy Parker
Poetry
Sarah Orne Jewett
13. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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14. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Narrative Poem
Rhyme Scheme
15. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Gothic
Henry James
Rhyme Scheme
Allegory
16. 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
Loss of Traditional Values
Edward Teller
Bret Harte
Stephen Crane
17. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
American Adam
Willa Cather
Frederick Douglass
18. 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.
Walt Whitman
Genteel Tradition
Polemic
Realism
19. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Emile Zola
Loss of Traditional Values
Jack London
T.S Eliot
20. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Booker T. Washington
Edgar Allen Poe
Anne Sexton
Narrative Poem
21. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Nietzscheism
Melting Pot
Prose
Wonders of the Invisible World
22. 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
Social Darwinism
Frank Norris
e.e cummings
23. 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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atavism
T.S Eliot
James Baldwin
24. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Foot
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Richard Wright
Modernism
25. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Transcendentalism
Frank Norris
Blank Verse
J.D Salinger
26. 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.
Robert Frost
James Baldwin
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Mayflower Compact
27. (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
Verse
Calvinism
Langston Hughes
Narrative Poem
28. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Carl Sandburg
Free Verse
Edgar Lee Masters
Allen Ginsberg
29. A stanza.
Ezra Pound
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Verse
Rhyme Scheme
30. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Ballad
Nativism
Maya Angelou
William Faulkner
31. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Jack Kerouac
Jack London
Norman Mailer
32. Clever - memorable sayings.
Aphorisms
Polemic
The Declaration of Independence
Modernism
33. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Sonnet
Modernism
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
James Thurbur
34. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Loaded Words
W.E.B Du Bois
Edward Teller
35. In the 1920s - became the symbol of the liberated woman for her wit and independence. Known for her caustic and clever poems and short stories.
Allen Ginsberg
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dorthy Parker
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36. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
James Weldon Johnson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Drama
John Steinbeck
37. 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.
Persona
Maya Angelou
Frederick Douglass
Rhyme
38. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Mayflower Compact
Vachel Lindsay
Willa Cather
Modernism
39. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Rhyme
Dorthy Parker
Transcendental Club
The Declaration of Independence
40. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Saul Bellow
James Weldon Johnson
Anne Sexton
41. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
William Faulkner
Stanza
The 3 primary literary genres
Aphorisms
42. 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
Stephen Crane
William S. Burroughs
Henry David Thoreau
Calvinism
43. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Racialism
Polemic
Alice Walker
Social Darwinism
44. Wrote 'The Red Badge of Courage' and 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets -' and 'The Open Boat.' Red Badge of Courage is considered the first modern war novel. Work is celebrated for its images and symbolism. Work is often described as impressionist due t
Stephen Crane
Drama
Verse
Jonathan Edwards
45. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
John Smith
Broadside
Herman Melville
Edgar Lee Masters
46. Written by Michael Wigglesworth - the most famous poem of 17th Century - proceeds from judgement day to hell and then to paradise. First American Best Seller.
The Day of Doom
Gothic
Gwendolyn Brooks
Transcendental Club
47. 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
Romanticism
Drama
Nativism
Edith Wharton
48. 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
Edgar Lee Masters
Cotton Mather
Washington Irving
Atavism
49. First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Novel focus on black cultural identity in contemporary America. Wrote 'The Bluest Eye -' 'Tar Baby -' and 'Beloved'
James Thurbur
The Day of Doom
Toni Morrison
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50. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Realism
Beat Writers
John Adams
Phillip Roth