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CLEP American Literature
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1. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Narrative Poem
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Erica Jong
2. 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.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Phillip Roth
Racialism
Frederick Douglass
3. 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
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Transcendentalism
Jack London
Naturalism
4. '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
Naturalism
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Beat Movement
Ernest Hemmingway
5. Wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' - first American novel to sell a million copies. The most influential book of the 19th century. Credited with starting the Civil War. Most famous American woman of her day.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Transcendental Club
Samuel Sewall
Puritan Poetry
6. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
Realism
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Adam
7. (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
Robert Lowell
Monologue
Thomas Morton
Puritan Poetry
8. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Sylvia Plath
Meter
Richard Wright
Three main colonial era poets
9. 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'
Lyres
William S. Burroughs
Emily Dickinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson
10. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Genteel Tradition
Sarah Orne Jewett
Ballad
Edgar Allen Poe
11. 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.
Atavism
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Jonathan Edwards
Emile Zola
12. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Loss of Traditional Values
Foot
William Faulkner
Richard Wright
13. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Cotton Mather
Narrative Poem
Samuel Sewall
Vachel Lindsay
14. 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
Maya Angelou
Emile Zola
Wonders of the Invisible World
15. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Stephen Crane
Refrain
Anne Sexton
James Fenimore Cooper
16. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
The Declaration of Independence
Epic Story
Maya Angelou
Alice Walker
17. 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.
Determinism
Mayflower Compact
John Smith
Jonathan Edwards
18. 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.
Naturalism
Jean Toomer
The Day of Doom
Romanticism
19. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
Toni Morrison
Romanticism
William Faulkner
20. 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.
Gwendolyn Brooks
John Steinbeck
Sarah Orne Jewett
Benjamin Franklin
21. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Phillip Roth
Melting Pot
Romanticism
James Thurbur
22. 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'
Toni Morrison
The 3 primary literary genres
Emily Dickinson
The Day of Doom
23. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Jack Kerouac
Dorthy Parker
Rhyme Scheme
Aphorisms
24. 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
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edgar Lee Masters
Anne Sexton
Sarah Orne Jewett
25. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Beat Writers
Rhythm
Iambic Pentameter
Sonnet
26. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Broadside
Drama
Sarah Orne Jewett
Wonders of the Invisible World
27. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Countee Cullen
Racialism
John Steinbeck
Edgar Allen Poe
28. Wished to return to more primitive principles - to simplicity - sobriety - religious earnestness - and personal self-control. Aim was to purify church of England from 'Popery' - Persecuted harshly by Charles I and Archbishop of Canterbury William Lau
Lyric Poem
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Ballad
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
29. Ranked as top American novelist - even though few of his contemporaries recognized his genius. Moby Dick is considered to be America's greatest prose epic. It is also top contender for best American novel. Wrote the first great romance about the Sout
Scientism
Carl Sandburg
Herman Melville
Verse
30. 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
Calvinism
William Bradford
Emile Zola
31. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Edith Wharton
Rhyme Scheme
William Byrd
Jean Toomer
32. (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
Thomas Paine
Wonders of the Invisible World
Allen Ginsberg
Cotton Mather
33. 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
Theodore Dreiser
Edith Wharton
Beat Movement
Edwin Arlington Robinson
34. 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.
Nietzscheism
Iambic Pentameter
The Day of Doom
e.e cummings
35. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Flannery O'Connor
Henry David Thoreau
Persona
Robert Frost
36. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Kate Chopin
Jean Toomer
Ballad
William Byrd
37. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Jean Toomer
Theodore Dreiser
Free Verse
Robert Frost
38. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Emily Dickinson
William S. Burroughs
Loss of Traditional Values
Stanza
39. 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.
Melting Pot
Washington Irving
Kate Chopin
Edwin Arlington Robinson
40. The Bard of Harlem; most successful black writer in America during the Harlem Renaissance. Wanted to capture the dominant oral traditions of black culture in written form. Best known for his poetry: 'The Weary Blues -' 'Fields of Wonder -' and 'The D
J.D Salinger
John Steinbeck
Langston Hughes
Foot
41. (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
William S. Burroughs
William Faulkner
Narrative Poem
Calvinism
42. 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
Scan
Ballad
Transcendentalism
Monologue
43. 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
Erica Jong
Stephen Crane
Beat Writers
Abigail Adams
44. 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
Thomas Morton
Alice Walker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Weldon Johnson
45. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Gothic
Robert Frost
46. 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
Stanza
Walt Whitman
J.D Salinger
47. Well-known humorists.
Epic Story
Frank Norris
Iambic Pentameter
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
48. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Thomas Paine
J.D Salinger
Monologue
Edwin Arlington Robinson
49. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Richard Wright
Narrative Poem
William S. Burroughs
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
50. Ben Franklin paid his passage to America. First Pamphlet was Common Sense : credited with getting the colonists to see the 'advantage - necessity - and obligation' of breaking with Britain. Followed by a series of pamphlets - collectively called 'An
Thomas Paine
Zora Neal Hurston
Transcendentalism
Social Darwinism
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