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CLEP American Literature

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1. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'






2. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.






3. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'






4. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.






5. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'






6. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical






7. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'






8. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language






9. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'






10. 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






11. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.






12. 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.






13. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'






14. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.






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.






16. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.






17. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot






18. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture






19. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.






20. Wrote Catcher in the Rye






21. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'






22. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet






23. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.






24. 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






25. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'






26. 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






27. Prose - Poetry - Drama






28. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'






29. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.






30. 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.






31. Book of feline poems - 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats -' formed the basis of the Broadway hit 'Cats.' Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Published 'The Waste-Land' which became the most famous poem of the first half of the 20th Centur






32. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.






33. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.






34. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.






35. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.






36. Clever - memorable sayings.






37. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.






38. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.






39. 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






40. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'






41. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart






42. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'






43. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)






44. '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






45. 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.'






46. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.






47. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.






48. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.






49. (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






50. The repeated use of identical sounds.







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