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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Herman Melville
Narrative Poem
John Steinbeck
James Weldon Johnson
2. 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'
Edgar Lee Masters
William Byrd
Cotton Mather
Edwin Arlington Robinson
3. 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
Imagist Poetry
Edward Teller
Loaded Words
Henry James
4. 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.
Frank Norris
Foot
Genteel Tradition
Frederick Douglass
5. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Alice Walker
Cotton Mather
Poetry
Sylvia Plath
6. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Stanza
Jean Toomer
Richard Wright
William Byrd
7. 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
William Bradford
Beat Writers
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
8. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Broadside
Edith Wharton
Samuel Sewall
Monologue
9. (Colonial Period) One of the most brilliant of American thinkers. Theologian and philosopher; vigorous defender of Calvinistic orthodoxy at the end of the Puritan era. Influenced major nineteenth century writers such as Emerson - Hawthorne - Melville
Stanza
Polemic
Genteel Tradition
Jonathan Edwards
10. 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
Claude McKay
Beat Movement
Three main colonial era poets
11. 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
Langston Hughes
The 3 primary literary genres
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Edgar Lee Masters
12. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Richard Wright
T.S Eliot
Theodore Dreiser
13. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Alice Walker
Scientism
Booker T. Washington
The 3 primary literary genres
14. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Cotton Mather
Jack Kerouac
Erica Jong
Allegory
15. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Modernism
Wonders of the Invisible World
James Fenimore Cooper
Gothic
16. 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.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Richard Wright
Sarah Orne Jewett
Lyric Poem
17. (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
Iambic Pentameter
Puritan Poetry
Transcendentalism
Jean Toomer
18. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Melting Pot
Beat Writers
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Maya Angelou
19. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
John Smith
Meter
Stephen Crane
Henry James
20. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Jonathan Edwards
Gwendolyn Brooks
Cotton Mather
Genteel Tradition
21. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Beat Movement
William Bradford
The Day of Doom
Puritan Poetry
22. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
John Smith
Monologue
Frederick Douglass
Stanza
23. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Jonathan Edwards
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
James Fenimore Cooper
Lyric Poem
24. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
James Thurbur
Gothic
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Langston Hughes
25. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Rhythm
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Beat Movement
26. A stanza.
Phillip Roth
Ralph Ellison
Verse
Gwendolyn Brooks
27. All events follow natural laws.
Determinism
Drama
Transcendentalism
Robert Lowell
28. 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
Edgar Lee Masters
Persona
Emile Zola
William Byrd
29. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
John Adams
Puritan Poetry
Samuel Sewall
Toni Morrison
30. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Beat Writers
Refrain
Vachel Lindsay
Rhyme
31. 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
Herman Melville
Thomas Paine
Sarah Orne Jewett
Cotton Mather
32. 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.
John Steinbeck
Sarah Orne Jewett
Zora Neal Hurston
Bret Harte
33. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rhyme Scheme
Lyres
Thomas Jefferson
34. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Claude McKay
Melting Pot
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lyres
35. (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
Transcendentalism
Dorthy Parker
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Bradford
36. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rhythm
Calvinism
Sonnet
37. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
William S. Burroughs
Sarah Orne Jewett
Theodore Dreiser
Drama
38. 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
William S. Burroughs
Henry David Thoreau
Nativism
Beat Movement
39. '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
Melting Pot
Drama
Stanza
Ernest Hemmingway
40. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Loss of Traditional Values
Thomas Morton
41. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Calvinism
The Day of Doom
Loss of Traditional Values
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
42. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Jonathan Edwards
Kate Chopin
Foot
William Bradford
43. 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.
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemmingway
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
John Adams
44. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Scan
Darwinism
Iambic Pentameter
Vachel Lindsay
45. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Winthrop
Prose
e.e cummings
46. 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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nativism
Frederick Douglass
Sonnet
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
Edgar Lee Masters
Romanticism
Anne Sexton
Narrative Poem
48. 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
Edith Wharton
Scan
William S. Burroughs
Epic Story
49. 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
Robert Lowell
James Baldwin
Washington Irving
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
50. 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.
Transcendental Club
Social Darwinism
Benjamin Franklin
Edward Teller
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