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CLEP American Literature

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1. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot






2. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.






3. 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.






4. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'






5. 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.






6. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist






7. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'






8. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.






9. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'






10. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical






11. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'






12. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP






13. 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.






14. An organization of the leading transcendentalists living around Boston. They were interested in new developments in theology - philosophy - and literature. Major writers: Ripley - Emerson - Alcott - Fuller - Hawthorne - Thoreau - Channing - Hedge - P






15. 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






16. 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






17. 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






18. 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






19. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.






20. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'






21. 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'






22. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'






23. 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






24. 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






25. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.






26. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.






27. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.






28. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'






29. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.






30. 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






31. 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






32. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.






33. (Colonial Period) Wrote Of Plymouth Plantation (First Thanksgiving) - Chronicled the Pilgrim experience from the religious considerations that caused them to leave England for Holland and then for America.Style is dignified and Grave - and events are






34. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'






35. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature






36. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.






37. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.






38. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.






39. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'






40. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.






41. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.






42. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet






43. 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.






44. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.


45. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.






46. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.






47. 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






48. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture






49. A stanza.






50. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.