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CLEP American Literature
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1. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Rhyme
William Byrd
Rhythm
2. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Edgar Allen Poe
Rhyme
Vachel Lindsay
Ballad
3. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Maya Angelou
Thomas Paine
Lyres
Loss of Traditional Values
4. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Frederick Douglass
James Fenimore Cooper
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edgar Allen Poe
5. 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
Naturalism
Ernest Hemmingway
Wonders of the Invisible World
6. (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
Rhyme Scheme
John Winthrop
Verse
Melting Pot
7. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Maya Angelou
Genteel Tradition
Racialism
Refrain
8. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Alice Walker
John Smith
Refrain
Racialism
9. (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
Carl Sandburg
Cotton Mather
Sonnet
Langston Hughes
10. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Blank Verse
Erica Jong
Ezra Pound
Ballad
11. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
John Adams
Epic Story
William Byrd
12. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Jean Toomer
Saul Bellow
James Weldon Johnson
Wonders of the Invisible World
13. 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
Modernism
Edgar Allen Poe
Beat Movement
Jonathan Edwards
14. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Loaded Words
Modernism
Booker T. Washington
John Winthrop
15. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Transcendental Club
Norman Mailer
Naturalism
Flannery O'Connor
16. 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.
Monologue
William Faulkner
Allegory
Erica Jong
17. 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.
Richard Wright
Sarah Orne Jewett
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Claude McKay
18. 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.
Loaded Words
e.e cummings
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Epic Story
19. 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
Stanza
Three main colonial era poets
Aphorisms
20. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Polemic
Sonnet
Lyres
Racialism
21. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
The Day of Doom
Jack Kerouac
Ralph Ellison
Drama
22. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Ballad
Edward Teller
Monologue
Henry James
23. 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
Robert Lowell
Transcendental Club
Kate Chopin
Prose
24. 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
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Imagist Poetry
John Adams
Booker T. Washington
25. 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
The 3 primary literary genres
John Adams
Thomas Morton
Henry David Thoreau
26. 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.
The Day of Doom
Carl Sandburg
Sylvia Plath
Persona
27. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Transcendentalism
Thomas Jefferson
Beat Movement
Willa Cather
28. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Jack Kerouac
Henry James
Nativism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Dorthy Parker
Vachel Lindsay
Puritan Poetry
American Adam
30. (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
Langston Hughes
William Bradford
Norman Mailer
James Weldon Johnson
31. 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.
Social Darwinism
Willa Cather
Darwinism
Frederick Douglass
32. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Aphorisms
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Free Verse
Edward Teller
33. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Robert Frost
Gothic
Beat Movement
Racialism
34. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Sonnet
Meter
Thomas Jefferson
The 3 primary literary genres
35. 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
Carl Sandburg
Edgar Allen Poe
Rhyme Scheme
Emile Zola
36. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Prose
Edith Wharton
Alice Walker
Puritan Poetry
37. 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
Flannery O'Connor
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stanza
38. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Rhyme Scheme
Emile Zola
Atavism
Jonathan Edwards
39. 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
Realism
Robert Frost
Three main colonial era poets
Transcendentalism
40. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Narrative Poem
James Baldwin
Flannery O'Connor
Persona
41. 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
Jean Toomer
Narrative Poem
Norman Mailer
Edith Wharton
42. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Phillip Roth
Saul Bellow
William Faulkner
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.
Theodore Dreiser
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Atavism
William S. Burroughs
44. 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
Epic Story
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Theodore Dreiser
Dorthy Parker
45. Clever - memorable sayings.
Rhyme Scheme
Maya Angelou
Edgar Lee Masters
Aphorisms
46. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Beat Writers
Nietzscheism
Jack London
Verse
47. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Frank Norris
Robert Lowell
Melting Pot
Modernism
48. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Iambic Pentameter
Allen Ginsberg
James Thurbur
Walt Whitman
49. 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
Carl Sandburg
Rhythm
Herman Melville
Stephen Crane
50. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Robert Lowell
Phillip Roth
Theodore Dreiser
Benjamin Franklin
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