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CLEP American Literature
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1. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Allen Ginsberg
Transcendentalism
Persona
Willa Cather
2. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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3. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Stephen Crane
Stanza
Sonnet
Calvinism
4. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Allegory
Nativism
Jack London
The Declaration of Independence
5. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Erica Jong
W.E.B Du Bois
Monologue
Polemic
6. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Beat Writers
Edwin Arlington Robinson
J.D Salinger
Melting Pot
7. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Atavism
Rhyme
8. 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.
Polemic
e.e cummings
Nietzscheism
Imagist Poetry
9. 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
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Darwinism
Carl Sandburg
Jack Kerouac
10. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
John Steinbeck
Scan
Racialism
Sylvia Plath
11. 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.
Booker T. Washington
Mayflower Compact
Kate Chopin
Modernism
12. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Lyric Poem
Lyres
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
William Faulkner
13. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Stanza
Blank Verse
Robert Frost
James Fenimore Cooper
14. 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
William S. Burroughs
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Emile Zola
Monologue
15. 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.
Emily Dickinson
Atavism
Samuel Sewall
James Weldon Johnson
16. 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.
Social Darwinism
Three main colonial era poets
Persona
Gothic
17. 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
Sylvia Plath
Scientism
The Day of Doom
18. Well-known humorists.
American Adam
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Flannery O'Connor
Maya Angelou
19. 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
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Lyric Poem
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sonnet
20. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
James Fenimore Cooper
Dorthy Parker
Loss of Traditional Values
Verse
21. 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.
Polemic
Gothic
Allegory
Harriet Beecher Stowe
22. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Persona
The 3 primary literary genres
Emily Dickinson
Darwinism
23. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Aphorisms
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Edward Teller
Meter
24. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
T.S Eliot
Nietzscheism
Free Verse
Thomas Morton
25. (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
Nativism
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edgar Lee Masters
26. (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
Bret Harte
Puritan Poetry
Emile Zola
Edith Wharton
27. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
The 3 primary literary genres
Mary Wilkins Freeman
William Faulkner
Cotton Mather
28. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Robert Lowell
Racialism
Saul Bellow
Jean Toomer
29. First great writer of psychological fiction; obsessed with sin and guilt. 'The Scarlet Letter' - 'Young Goodman Brown' - Claimed his work was romance and therefore not required to be realistic.
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emily Dickinson
Richard Wright
30. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Loss of Traditional Values
Kate Chopin
American Adam
Calvinism
31. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Beat Movement
Frederick Douglass
Racialism
William Byrd
32. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Imagist Poetry
Booker T. Washington
Thomas Paine
Gothic
33. Work did not have a political agenda. Wrote 'Their Eyes Were Watching God -' 'Mules and Men -' and 'Jonahs Gourd Vine.' Considered one of the key black writers of the 20th Century.
Social Darwinism
Kate Chopin
Zora Neal Hurston
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
34. A stanza.
Cotton Mather
Narrative Poem
Verse
Edith Wharton
35. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Robert Frost
Saul Bellow
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Polemic
36. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Bret Harte
Nativism
Wonders of the Invisible World
Allegory
37. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
J.D Salinger
Washington Irving
Lyres
Broadside
38. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Realism
Naturalism
Polemic
Carl Sandburg
39. 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
Monologue
Emily Dickinson
Blank Verse
Drama
40. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Samuel Sewall
Prose
Gwendolyn Brooks
John Adams
41. 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
Jack Kerouac
Verse
Refrain
Abigail Adams
42. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Vachel Lindsay
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Ezra Pound
Scientism
43. 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
Thomas Paine
Iambic Pentameter
Edgar Allen Poe
44. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Imagist Poetry
Rhyme Scheme
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Ezra Pound
45. 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
William Bradford
Emily Dickinson
Booker T. Washington
Langston Hughes
46. 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'
Booker T. Washington
Drama
Toni Morrison
Jack London
47. (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
Aphorisms
William Faulkner
Zora Neal Hurston
William Bradford
48. 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
Herman Melville
Ralph Ellison
Jack Kerouac
Thomas Morton
49. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Refrain
Thomas Morton
Lyres
Richard Wright
50. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Henry David Thoreau
James Weldon Johnson
Verse
Dorthy Parker