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CLEP American Literature
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1. (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
Foot
Puritan Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Declaration of Independence
2. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Allen Ginsberg
Phillip Roth
William Bradford
Jonathan Edwards
3. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Carl Sandburg
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Frank Norris
Walt Whitman
4. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Loss of Traditional Values
Ezra Pound
Gothic
Allen Ginsberg
5. 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
J.D Salinger
Erica Jong
Abigail Adams
e.e cummings
6. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Samuel Sewall
Drama
Racialism
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
7. 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
Persona
Transcendentalism
Thomas Paine
Mayflower Compact
8. 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
Bret Harte
W.E.B Du Bois
Melting Pot
Robert Lowell
9. 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'
Iambic Pentameter
Walt Whitman
Toni Morrison
Robert Frost
10. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Cotton Mather
Ezra Pound
J.D Salinger
Modernism
11. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
John Smith
Ezra Pound
Monologue
Bret Harte
12. 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.
Beat Writers
Jack Kerouac
Gothic
Drama
13. 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
Rhyme Scheme
Edgar Lee Masters
Langston Hughes
Mary Wilkins Freeman
14. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
W.E.B Du Bois
Ezra Pound
Imagist Poetry
15. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Vachel Lindsay
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nativism
16. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Rhyme Scheme
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. All events follow natural laws.
James Weldon Johnson
Determinism
Robert Lowell
Sonnet
18. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Henry James
Frederick Douglass
Poetry
Aphorisms
19. (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
Cotton Mather
Thomas Paine
Rhyme
Claude McKay
20. Imagist Poet - Wrote 'In a Station of the Metro -' ' The Pisan Cantos -' 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberly -' and 'Mauberly.' Modeled 'Cantos' after Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' - Infamous traitor; Staunch supporter of Mussolini during WWII. Didn't speak for the
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Scan
Ezra Pound
John Adams
21. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Transcendental Club
J.D Salinger
Genteel Tradition
James Thurbur
22. 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
Melting Pot
Imagist Poetry
Loaded Words
Prose
23. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Loaded Words
Alice Walker
Countee Cullen
Ernest Hemmingway
24. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Refrain
Stephen Crane
Romanticism
Broadside
25. 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'
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Jack Kerouac
Zora Neal Hurston
Loss of Traditional Values
26. 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
Lyric Poem
W.E.B Du Bois
Iambic Pentameter
27. 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
T.S Eliot
Lyres
Langston Hughes
28. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Abigail Adams
Beat Movement
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Meter
29. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Romanticism
Jonathan Edwards
Stephen Crane
Refrain
30. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Genteel Tradition
Ballad
Monologue
31. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Modernism
Saul Bellow
Alice Walker
William Bradford
32. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Nietzscheism
Stephen Crane
Racialism
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
33. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Transcendentalism
Norman Mailer
Loaded Words
John Adams
34. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Countee Cullen
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Robert Lowell
35. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Theodore Dreiser
Beat Movement
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. Created the first American adventure story. First successful American novelist. 'Father of the American novel.' Very litigious - cranky and vain. Most famous for the 'Leatherstocking Tales': A series of five novels about the frontiersman - Natty Bump
James Fenimore Cooper
Poetry
Foot
Iambic Pentameter
37. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Emily Dickinson
Iambic Pentameter
Sylvia Plath
Persona
38. 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.
Persona
Kate Chopin
Gothic
Maya Angelou
39. 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
Drama
Puritan Poetry
Nativism
40. 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.
Mayflower Compact
Drama
Thomas Morton
Theodore Dreiser
41. 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
W.E.B Du Bois
Drama
Imagist Poetry
Edgar Lee Masters
42. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Bret Harte
Beat Movement
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ralph Ellison
43. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
James Thurbur
Loss of Traditional Values
Willa Cather
44. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Rhyme Scheme
Nativism
Determinism
Nietzscheism
45. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Loaded Words
James Thurbur
Verse
Epic Story
46. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Toni Morrison
Flannery O'Connor
Emile Zola
Theodore Dreiser
47. An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th Century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature - emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination - departure from the attitudes and forms of
Mayflower Compact
Narrative Poem
Romanticism
Ballad
48. 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.
Herman Melville
Claude McKay
Allen Ginsberg
Racialism
49. 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.
Narrative Poem
Thomas Paine
Gwendolyn Brooks
William Faulkner
50. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
John Smith
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dorthy Parker