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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Loss of Traditional Values
Stephen Crane
Samuel Sewall
Edgar Allen Poe
2. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
e.e cummings
Willa Cather
Wonders of the Invisible World
3. 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.
Nietzscheism
Mayflower Compact
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Walt Whitman
4. Well-known humorists.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Kate Chopin
Narrative Poem
5. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Alice Walker
The Declaration of Independence
Beat Movement
Norman Mailer
6. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Frank Norris
Atavism
Rhythm
Stanza
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
Henry James
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bret Harte
Mary Wilkins Freeman
8. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Jack London
Transcendental Club
James Baldwin
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
9. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Naturalism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Loss of Traditional Values
Beat Movement
10. All events follow natural laws.
Determinism
Benjamin Franklin
Claude McKay
William S. Burroughs
11. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Monologue
Wonders of the Invisible World
Loaded Words
John Smith
12. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Robert Frost
Loss of Traditional Values
Benjamin Franklin
13. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Benjamin Franklin
Wonders of the Invisible World
Naturalism
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
14. 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
Edward Teller
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Ralph Ellison
15. 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
Imagist Poetry
Poetry
James Baldwin
Thomas Jefferson
16. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Cotton Mather
Lyres
Maya Angelou
James Weldon Johnson
17. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Meter
Scientism
Puritan Poetry
Monologue
18. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Emily Dickinson
Richard Wright
Toni Morrison
Iambic Pentameter
19. 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
Modernism
Scientism
Naturalism
Edgar Lee Masters
20. 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.
Melting Pot
Toni Morrison
e.e cummings
John Steinbeck
21. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Melting Pot
John Adams
Genteel Tradition
Willa Cather
22. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Scientism
Emile Zola
Blank Verse
Dorthy Parker
23. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
The Declaration of Independence
Beat Writers
Three main colonial era poets
Transcendentalism
24. Chicago School : Verses often concern ordinary - everyday people; realistic poems and dramatic emphasis attract a large audience. Wrote 'Chicago -' and a biography of Abraham Lincoln. Poems describe everyday Americans - have a positive tone - use sim
T.S Eliot
Jack London
Carl Sandburg
Naturalism
25. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
T.S Eliot
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Polemic
Frederick Douglass
26. '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
Edward Teller
Claude McKay
W.E.B Du Bois
27. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Verse
Vachel Lindsay
William S. Burroughs
28. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flannery O'Connor
Sonnet
Gwendolyn Brooks
29. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Henry James
Stanza
Persona
James Weldon Johnson
30. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Jonathan Edwards
Refrain
Epic Story
Ballad
31. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Epic Story
Emile Zola
The Declaration of Independence
Wonders of the Invisible World
32. 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
Polemic
Bret Harte
Verse
33. 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.
John Winthrop
Claude McKay
Blank Verse
Transcendental Club
34. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Henry James
Thomas Jefferson
Walt Whitman
T.S Eliot
35. 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
Nietzscheism
Jack London
Robert Lowell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. 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
Imagist Poetry
Langston Hughes
W.E.B Du Bois
Erica Jong
37. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
W.E.B Du Bois
Edgar Lee Masters
James Baldwin
The Day of Doom
38. The belief that 'true' Americans were those of earlier Anglo-Saxon descent - and that this 'race' was under threat from the growing influx of Central European and Asian immigrants.
Ernest Hemmingway
Nativism
Jean Toomer
Gothic
39. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Persona
Ernest Hemmingway
Nietzscheism
Ballad
40. 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
Persona
Iambic Pentameter
Abigail Adams
Robert Lowell
41. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
42. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Robert Lowell
Kate Chopin
Scientism
Allegory
43. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Saul Bellow
Flannery O'Connor
Gothic
Broadside
44. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Frederick Douglass
Phillip Roth
James Thurbur
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
45. 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
W.E.B Du Bois
Frederick Douglass
Beat Writers
Naturalism
46. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Frederick Douglass
Washington Irving
Jean Toomer
Rhyme Scheme
47. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Rhythm
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Narrative Poem
Beat Movement
48. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Foot
Thomas Jefferson
Norman Mailer
Willa Cather
49. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Verse
Refrain
Maya Angelou
Booker T. Washington
50. 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.'
Theodore Dreiser
Aphorisms
Racialism
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme