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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Poetry
Epic Story
Foot
2. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
John Winthrop
Free Verse
Beat Movement
Determinism
3. 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
Washington Irving
Ralph Ellison
Abigail Adams
Rhythm
4. 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.
Determinism
William Faulkner
Willa Cather
Harriet Beecher Stowe
5. 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.'
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Foot
Herman Melville
The Declaration of Independence
6. 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
John Smith
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
James Fenimore Cooper
James Thurbur
7. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Social Darwinism
Persona
Herman Melville
Loss of Traditional Values
8. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Erica Jong
Alice Walker
Transcendentalism
Benjamin Franklin
9. 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
Abigail Adams
Monologue
Ballad
The Day of Doom
10. 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
Kate Chopin
Langston Hughes
Herman Melville
11. Book of feline poems - 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats -' formed the basis of the Broadway hit 'Cats.' Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Published 'The Waste-Land' which became the most famous poem of the first half of the 20th Centur
Beat Movement
T.S Eliot
Puritan Poetry
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
12. (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
Realism
Benjamin Franklin
Naturalism
Jonathan Edwards
13. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Benjamin Franklin
Ernest Hemmingway
Melting Pot
Zora Neal Hurston
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
Verse
Blank Verse
Allen Ginsberg
15. (Colonial Period) Began 'The History of New England' aboard the Arbella in 1630. Lead 2 -000 English emigrant to Massachusetts Bay. Made daily journal-style entries until his death. Intended it to be an account of his long governorship. Style is pla
Imagist Poetry
John Winthrop
Kate Chopin
Jack Kerouac
16. Considered the greatest humorist of 19th century American Literature. Wrote 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' Master of 'Local Color' writing. Used vernacular - exaggeration and deadpan narrator to create humor.
Prose
Darwinism
John Adams
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
17. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Romanticism
Willa Cather
Social Darwinism
18. (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
Jack Kerouac
Thomas Jefferson
Loss of Traditional Values
Cotton Mather
19. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Transcendental Club
Gothic
Rhyme
Prose
20. Well-known humorists.
Theodore Dreiser
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Ernest Hemmingway
Frederick Douglass
21. 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.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
James Fenimore Cooper
e.e cummings
William S. Burroughs
22. 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
Dorthy Parker
John Smith
Determinism
23. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Thomas Jefferson
Henry David Thoreau
Nietzscheism
Wonders of the Invisible World
24. (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
Puritan Poetry
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Frederick Douglass
25. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Edith Wharton
Jack London
Claude McKay
Emily Dickinson
26. Created new poetic forms and subjects to fashion a distinctly American type of poetic expression. Rejected conventional themes - traditional literary references - allusions - and rhymes. Used long lines to capture rhythms of natural speech - free ver
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Kate Chopin
Prose
27. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Broadside
Scientism
Poetry
Rhyme Scheme
28. 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
Mayflower Compact
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Lee Masters
Herman Melville
29. 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.
Emile Zola
Atavism
Bret Harte
Edgar Allen Poe
30. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Robert Lowell
American Adam
Imagist Poetry
John Smith
31. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Rhyme
Mary Wilkins Freeman
W.E.B Du Bois
Loss of Traditional Values
32. 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.
Aphorisms
Kate Chopin
Iambic Pentameter
William Faulkner
33. 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
Walt Whitman
Scientism
John Winthrop
Naturalism
34. 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
Edith Wharton
Imagist Poetry
Vachel Lindsay
Toni Morrison
35. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Beat Writers
James Weldon Johnson
Zora Neal Hurston
Transcendentalism
36. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Lyres
Loss of Traditional Values
Sarah Orne Jewett
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
37. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Foot
The 3 primary literary genres
James Fenimore Cooper
Transcendental Club
38. 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.
Walt Whitman
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Gothic
Frederick Douglass
39. (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
Three main colonial era poets
Calvinism
The 3 primary literary genres
Phillip Roth
40. 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.
Henry James
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Frederick Douglass
John Smith
41. 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.
Claude McKay
Loaded Words
Kate Chopin
Drama
42. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Sonnet
James Weldon Johnson
Benjamin Franklin
e.e cummings
43. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Jack Kerouac
Jonathan Edwards
Thomas Morton
J.D Salinger
44. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Transcendentalism
Lyres
Realism
Sonnet
45. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Rhythm
Drama
Epic Story
Edith Wharton
46. 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
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Meter
Stephen Crane
Genteel Tradition
47. A stanza.
Ballad
Verse
Iambic Pentameter
Cotton Mather
48. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
James Thurbur
Monologue
James Weldon Johnson
Edwin Arlington Robinson
49. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Benjamin Franklin
Lyric Poem
Darwinism
Toni Morrison
50. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Edgar Allen Poe
John Winthrop
Vachel Lindsay
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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