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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
Alice Walker
W.E.B Du Bois
Puritan Poetry
Frederick Douglass
2. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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3. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Realism
Willa Cather
Jonathan Edwards
Genteel Tradition
4. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Romanticism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ralph Ellison
Thomas Paine
5. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Kate Chopin
William S. Burroughs
Henry James
Rhyme
6. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Toni Morrison
Three main colonial era poets
Sonnet
Sylvia Plath
7. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Robert Lowell
Phillip Roth
Sarah Orne Jewett
8. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Meter
Ralph Ellison
Abigail Adams
Mary Wilkins Freeman
9. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Jean Toomer
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Jack London
10. 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
Henry James
Robert Frost
Sarah Orne Jewett
11. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Vachel Lindsay
Sylvia Plath
Emily Dickinson
12. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Bret Harte
Wonders of the Invisible World
William Bradford
Thomas Morton
13. 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
John Winthrop
Edgar Allen Poe
William Faulkner
14. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Narrative Poem
John Winthrop
Gwendolyn Brooks
Calvinism
15. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Refrain
Phillip Roth
Ezra Pound
Ralph Ellison
16. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Maya Angelou
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Atavism
17. 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
Jean Toomer
Imagist Poetry
Darwinism
18. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Scientism
Broadside
Racialism
William Byrd
19. 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
Polemic
Rhythm
Bret Harte
20. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Transcendental Club
Persona
Samuel Sewall
Alice Walker
21. (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
Calvinism
James Thurbur
Darwinism
Frederick Douglass
22. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Loaded Words
Calvinism
Theodore Dreiser
23. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Richard Wright
Scan
John Winthrop
24. 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.
Lyres
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Smith
Stanza
25. Written by Michael Wigglesworth - the most famous poem of 17th Century - proceeds from judgement day to hell and then to paradise. First American Best Seller.
Edith Wharton
Sylvia Plath
The Day of Doom
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
26. 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
Jack Kerouac
Phillip Roth
James Weldon Johnson
Transcendentalism
27. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Henry David Thoreau
Three main colonial era poets
Polemic
Loss of Traditional Values
28. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Darwinism
Toni Morrison
Robert Lowell
Prose
29. (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
Anne Sexton
William Bradford
Cotton Mather
Drama
30. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Thomas Paine
Cotton Mather
Theodore Dreiser
Blank Verse
31. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Willa Cather
Rhyme
Erica Jong
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
32. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Willa Cather
W.E.B Du Bois
Racialism
Lyric Poem
33. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Emily Dickinson
Norman Mailer
Mayflower Compact
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
34. Key intellectual and philosophical voice of 19th-century America. Key player in the transcendentalist movement. First to define what made American poetry American - it is verse that celebrates ordinary experience rather than the epic themes of the pa
Edith Wharton
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Byrd
Iambic Pentameter
35. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Robert Lowell
Herman Melville
W.E.B Du Bois
Thomas Jefferson
36. 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
James Baldwin
Refrain
Romanticism
Nativism
37. 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.
Puritan Poetry
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Jean Toomer
Sarah Orne Jewett
38. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Langston Hughes
Nietzscheism
Emily Dickinson
Maya Angelou
39. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Rhyme Scheme
Saul Bellow
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
40. 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.
Drama
Jean Toomer
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Flannery O'Connor
41. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Flannery O'Connor
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Epic Story
Beat Movement
42. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Richard Wright
Thomas Jefferson
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Imagist Poetry
43. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Iambic Pentameter
William Byrd
F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. (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
James Weldon Johnson
John Winthrop
Walt Whitman
Determinism
45. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Genteel Tradition
Robert Frost
Allegory
Langston Hughes
46. 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
Flannery O'Connor
Robert Lowell
J.D Salinger
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
47. A stanza.
Poetry
Melting Pot
Verse
Sylvia Plath
48. 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
Puritan Poetry
Atavism
e.e cummings
49. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Lyres
Benjamin Franklin
Beat Writers
Broadside
50. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Richard Wright
Determinism
Lyres
Jean Toomer