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CLEP American Literature
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1. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Beat Movement
Jonathan Edwards
Nietzscheism
Melting Pot
2. (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
Washington Irving
William Bradford
Puritan Poetry
Anne Sexton
3. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Alice Walker
Samuel Sewall
Lyres
Allegory
4. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Lyres
Rhyme
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
John Steinbeck
5. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Rhyme Scheme
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Carl Sandburg
Toni Morrison
6. (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
Blank Verse
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Calvinism
Iambic Pentameter
7. 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
Stephen Crane
Persona
Phillip Roth
Benjamin Franklin
8. 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.
Frederick Douglass
Transcendentalism
Loaded Words
Polemic
9. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Jack London
Benjamin Franklin
Scientism
10. 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
Puritan Poetry
Naturalism
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Lyres
11. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Poetry
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Lee Masters
12. 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
Ezra Pound
Beat Movement
J.D Salinger
Three main colonial era poets
13. 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
Atavism
Emily Dickinson
Racialism
Carl Sandburg
14. 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.
Modernism
e.e cummings
Epic Story
Dorthy Parker
15. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Aphorisms
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Anne Sexton
Theodore Dreiser
16. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Beat Movement
Frederick Douglass
Phillip Roth
Verse
17. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Edith Wharton
Claude McKay
Narrative Poem
Atavism
18. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Gwendolyn Brooks
Beat Writers
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Rhythm
19. Clever - memorable sayings.
Toni Morrison
Aphorisms
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Nathaniel Hawthorne
20. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Dorthy Parker
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Thurbur
Prose
21. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Sylvia Plath
Rhyme
Sarah Orne Jewett
Booker T. Washington
22. 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
Beat Writers
Broadside
Abigail Adams
23. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
Meter
Rhyme
24. 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
T.S Eliot
Determinism
Romanticism
Monologue
25. 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
The Declaration of Independence
Bret Harte
Ezra Pound
Sonnet
26. 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
Iambic Pentameter
The 3 primary literary genres
Atavism
Thomas Paine
27. 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
Benjamin Franklin
Rhythm
Aphorisms
Carl Sandburg
28. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
William Bradford
W.E.B Du Bois
Flannery O'Connor
29. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Beat Writers
Sonnet
James Weldon Johnson
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30. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Stanza
Determinism
John Adams
Vachel Lindsay
31. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Samuel Sewall
Ballad
Blank Verse
Gwendolyn Brooks
32. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Nietzscheism
Jack Kerouac
Edgar Lee Masters
Sylvia Plath
33. 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
Transcendental Club
Herman Melville
James Fenimore Cooper
Samuel Sewall
34. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Mayflower Compact
Norman Mailer
Three main colonial era poets
Saul Bellow
35. 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.
Iambic Pentameter
Racialism
Realism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. 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
Walt Whitman
The Declaration of Independence
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Meter
37. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Thomas Paine
John Steinbeck
Robert Frost
Edward Teller
38. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Free Verse
Benjamin Franklin
Flannery O'Connor
The Declaration of Independence
39. 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
Puritan Poetry
Persona
Prose
40. Credited with creating: the modern short story and the detective novel - and the entire genre of mystery. Wrote 'The Philosophy of Composition' - 'The Raven' - 'Tell-Tale Heart -' 'The Cask of Amontillado -' and 'The Gold Bug.' (The first detective
Anne Sexton
Edgar Allen Poe
James Weldon Johnson
Edward Teller
41. 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.
Robert Lowell
James Baldwin
Drama
Claude McKay
42. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Henry James
Frank Norris
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Washington Irving
43. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Bret Harte
James Baldwin
Lyres
Naturalism
44. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Iambic Pentameter
John Adams
Genteel Tradition
Thomas Paine
45. 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.
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End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Nativism
Walt Whitman
46. 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.
Dorthy Parker
Herman Melville
Gothic
Persona
47. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Stanza
Three main colonial era poets
Rhythm
John Adams
48. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Meter
Sarah Orne Jewett
James Fenimore Cooper
Atavism
49. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Jack London
Claude McKay
Poetry
Edgar Allen Poe
50. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Transcendental Club
Samuel Sewall
Allegory
Frank Norris