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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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.
Mayflower Compact
Robert Frost
Rhyme
Mary Wilkins Freeman
2. 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'
Loss of Traditional Values
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Anne Sexton
William S. Burroughs
3. 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
Ezra Pound
J.D Salinger
Imagist Poetry
4. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Thomas Morton
Rhyme
Samuel Sewall
Edith Wharton
5. Local Colorist Wrote 'The Awakening' Writing is memorable for its : Vivid and economical style - Rich Local Dialect - and Penetrating view of the culture of South Louisiana.
Allen Ginsberg
Ralph Ellison
Kate Chopin
Henry James
6. 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.
Zora Neal Hurston
Lyres
Nativism
Aphorisms
7. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Ellison
Herman Melville
Aphorisms
8. Well-known humorists.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sarah Orne Jewett
Monologue
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
9. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Monologue
Ezra Pound
Realism
Dorthy Parker
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.
Emile Zola
John Steinbeck
Booker T. Washington
Realism
11. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Drama
Stephen Crane
Washington Irving
Booker T. Washington
12. 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
Transcendentalism
Imagist Poetry
Countee Cullen
Rhythm
13. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Saul Bellow
Norman Mailer
Free Verse
William Faulkner
14. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Willa Cather
Bret Harte
Countee Cullen
John Winthrop
15. All events follow natural laws.
Langston Hughes
Determinism
Claude McKay
T.S Eliot
16. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
John Adams
W.E.B Du Bois
Alice Walker
Epic Story
17. 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
Naturalism
Zora Neal Hurston
Allegory
Romanticism
18. 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
James Baldwin
Bret Harte
Beat Writers
Herman Melville
19. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Racialism
Abigail Adams
William Faulkner
Henry David Thoreau
20. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Robert Frost
Blank Verse
Scientism
Flannery O'Connor
21. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Genteel Tradition
Rhyme
James Baldwin
J.D Salinger
22. 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
Claude McKay
Walt Whitman
Rhyme Scheme
Wonders of the Invisible World
23. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Melting Pot
Carl Sandburg
Mayflower Compact
Polemic
24. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Loss of Traditional Values
e.e cummings
Frank Norris
Jonathan Edwards
25. 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.
William S. Burroughs
Realism
The Day of Doom
Nativism
26. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
Edgar Lee Masters
Ezra Pound
John Smith
27. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Washington Irving
John Adams
Anne Sexton
Lyric Poem
28. 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
Emily Dickinson
Edward Teller
Norman Mailer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
29. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Loaded Words
Flannery O'Connor
Edgar Allen Poe
Stanza
30. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Samuel Sewall
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Modernism
Epic Story
31. (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
Cotton Mather
William Bradford
Naturalism
Monologue
32. Prose - Poetry - Drama
The 3 primary literary genres
Rhyme Scheme
William Bradford
Emile Zola
33. 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.
Washington Irving
John Winthrop
Atavism
Lyres
34. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Langston Hughes
Benjamin Franklin
Verse
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
35. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Determinism
Monologue
Realism
James Weldon Johnson
36. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendental Club
Nietzscheism
Meter
37. 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
Thomas Morton
Dorthy Parker
Free Verse
James Fenimore Cooper
38. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Willa Cather
Toni Morrison
Bret Harte
Foot
39. (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
Maya Angelou
John Winthrop
William S. Burroughs
Puritan Poetry
40. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Naturalism
Realism
Aphorisms
Sylvia Plath
41. 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.'
Polemic
Edgar Lee Masters
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Narrative Poem
Persona
Poetry
Atavism
43. 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
Booker T. Washington
Alice Walker
Richard Wright
44. 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
Flannery O'Connor
Polemic
Washington Irving
Edith Wharton
45. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Meter
William Faulkner
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Emile Zola
46. 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
e.e cummings
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Carl Sandburg
Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. A stanza.
Vachel Lindsay
Iambic Pentameter
Langston Hughes
Verse
48. 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.
Willa Cather
Racialism
Nativism
Mayflower Compact
49. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Persona
Foot
Thomas Morton
Polemic
50. '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
Meter
Kate Chopin
Ernest Hemmingway
James Fenimore Cooper
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