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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Emile Zola
Determinism
Abigail Adams
Rhythm
2. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Saul Bellow
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Sewall
Abigail Adams
3. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Emile Zola
Meter
Alice Walker
Transcendental Club
4. 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
The Declaration of Independence
Carl Sandburg
Romanticism
Gwendolyn Brooks
5. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Edward Teller
Monologue
Persona
Sylvia Plath
6. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Narrative Poem
Ezra Pound
Kate Chopin
Allegory
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
Frederick Douglass
Loss of Traditional Values
Zora Neal Hurston
8. 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
Jonathan Edwards
The Declaration of Independence
Calvinism
9. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Nativism
Iambic Pentameter
Free Verse
The Day of Doom
10. 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
The Day of Doom
J.D Salinger
James Fenimore Cooper
William Faulkner
11. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Jack Kerouac
Claude McKay
Monologue
Lyric Poem
12. 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
T.S Eliot
Naturalism
James Weldon Johnson
The Day of Doom
13. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Beat Writers
Jack London
Abigail Adams
Erica Jong
14. Pilgrim's constitution. Shaped the politics - religion - and social behavior of the first settlers. Eventually influenced the shape - style and content of the U.S Constitution. William Bradford was famous for being one of the authors and signers.
Robert Frost
Jack Kerouac
Mayflower Compact
Jean Toomer
15. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Richard Wright
Gothic
Phillip Roth
Drama
16. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Verse
Realism
Edward Teller
Vachel Lindsay
17. (Colonial Period) Stands in direct opposition to the principles - personalities and literary styles of William Bradford and John Winthrop. Did not come to settle the land and establish God's Kingdom - but to trade beaver pelts and live pleasantly. Es
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Morton
John Smith
Beat Movement
18. '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
Ernest Hemmingway
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Epic Story
Stephen Crane
19. 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.
Edgar Allen Poe
James Thurbur
Realism
Edward Teller
20. 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
Foot
Transcendental Club
Edward Teller
John Smith
21. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Beat Movement
Harriet Beecher Stowe
James Weldon Johnson
The 3 primary literary genres
22. 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.
Transcendentalism
Meter
Stanza
Sarah Orne Jewett
23. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Benjamin Franklin
T.S Eliot
William Faulkner
Melting Pot
24. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Jonathan Edwards
Free Verse
Richard Wright
25. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Alice Walker
Epic Story
William Byrd
Monologue
26. Well-known humorists.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Loaded Words
William Bradford
Atavism
27. (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
Refrain
Thomas Morton
Allen Ginsberg
John Winthrop
28. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rhyme Scheme
T.S Eliot
Willa Cather
29. 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
John Steinbeck
Wonders of the Invisible World
Theodore Dreiser
Ezra Pound
30. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
John Smith
James Baldwin
Aphorisms
Theodore Dreiser
31. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Ralph Ellison
Zora Neal Hurston
Herman Melville
Sylvia Plath
32. 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
Darwinism
Verse
Transcendentalism
Naturalism
33. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Erica Jong
Edith Wharton
Edwin Arlington Robinson
American Adam
34. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Maya Angelou
The Declaration of Independence
Blank Verse
Jonathan Edwards
35. 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
J.D Salinger
Meter
Allegory
36. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Blank Verse
Henry James
Willa Cather
Sylvia Plath
37. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Norman Mailer
Beat Movement
Lyres
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
38. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Kate Chopin
Epic Story
Loaded Words
John Adams
39. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Verse
Prose
Jack London
Blank Verse
40. (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
James Weldon Johnson
Puritan Poetry
Jonathan Edwards
Blank Verse
41. 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.
John Winthrop
Atavism
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jack London
42. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
J.D Salinger
Flannery O'Connor
Allegory
Wonders of the Invisible World
43. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Nietzscheism
Flannery O'Connor
Modernism
Jonathan Edwards
44. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Scan
Anne Sexton
Monologue
James Baldwin
45. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Imagist Poetry
Transcendental Club
Benjamin Franklin
Countee Cullen
46. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Scientism
Beat Movement
Edgar Allen Poe
John Adams
47. 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
Three main colonial era poets
Foot
Emily Dickinson
48. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Persona
Gothic
Rhythm
49. American novelist - essayist - social critic - painter and spoken performer. Most of his works are autobiographical. Frequently experimented with drugs. He wrote the 'Naked Lunch' and the 'Cities of Red Night'
William S. Burroughs
Carl Sandburg
Prose
Three main colonial era poets
50. (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
Genteel Tradition
Abigail Adams
e.e cummings
Puritan Poetry