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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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.
Toni Morrison
William Faulkner
Ezra Pound
Drama
2. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Lyric Poem
Langston Hughes
John Smith
Meter
3. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Calvinism
Jonathan Edwards
Robert Lowell
Stanza
4. 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.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Scan
Lyres
Mayflower Compact
5. 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
Kate Chopin
Drama
Abigail Adams
Verse
6. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Saul Bellow
Langston Hughes
Sarah Orne Jewett
Jack Kerouac
7. 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
Nietzscheism
Romanticism
James Fenimore Cooper
Ezra Pound
8. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Three main colonial era poets
Realism
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Stephen Crane
9. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Narrative Poem
John Smith
Gwendolyn Brooks
Anne Sexton
10. 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
Gothic
Transcendentalism
Emile Zola
Henry David Thoreau
11. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Henry James
Allegory
Sylvia Plath
Imagist Poetry
12. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Frank Norris
Persona
Darwinism
Narrative Poem
13. (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
William Bradford
Genteel Tradition
Naturalism
Puritan Poetry
14. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Flannery O'Connor
Jack London
The 3 primary literary genres
Erica Jong
15. 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
Thomas Jefferson
Epic Story
Emile Zola
Herman Melville
16. 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.
Phillip Roth
Polemic
Saul Bellow
Atavism
17. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Stanza
Samuel Sewall
The Declaration of Independence
18. 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
Prose
Transcendentalism
Ezra Pound
Willa Cather
19. 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Meter
Calvinism
Atavism
20. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Herman Melville
Abigail Adams
Epic Story
Benjamin Franklin
21. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Thomas Morton
Poetry
Transcendentalism
22. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Prose
Samuel Sewall
Sarah Orne Jewett
William Bradford
23. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Claude McKay
Erica Jong
Poetry
Theodore Dreiser
24. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Lyric Poem
Alice Walker
Theodore Dreiser
Persona
25. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
John Smith
Thomas Jefferson
Wonders of the Invisible World
Maya Angelou
26. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Mayflower Compact
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Jack London
Gothic
27. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Jack London
Booker T. Washington
Wonders of the Invisible World
Allen Ginsberg
28. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Rhyme Scheme
Herman Melville
Washington Irving
Walt Whitman
29. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
American Adam
Drama
Iambic Pentameter
Epic Story
30. 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
Imagist Poetry
James Fenimore Cooper
Lyric Poem
31. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Sonnet
Darwinism
Puritan Poetry
Edith Wharton
32. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Jack Kerouac
Countee Cullen
Jonathan Edwards
Alice Walker
33. Chicago School - Wrote 'Lucinda Matlock' - Created 'Spoon River Anthology' - Spoon River poems are characterized by: An unpoetic - colloquial style - frank descriptions of sex - a very critical view of small town life - and a description of he inner
James Weldon Johnson
Edgar Lee Masters
Drama
Ezra Pound
34. 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
Emile Zola
Carl Sandburg
Stanza
Sarah Orne Jewett
35. 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
Mayflower Compact
Sonnet
Herman Melville
36. 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
Imagist Poetry
Jonathan Edwards
Transcendentalism
Narrative Poem
37. 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
Sonnet
Edward Teller
Romanticism
Dorthy Parker
38. All events follow natural laws.
Gothic
Free Verse
Frederick Douglass
Determinism
39. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Willa Cather
Transcendental Club
Ralph Ellison
James Weldon Johnson
40. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Racialism
Carl Sandburg
Beat Movement
Narrative Poem
41. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Willa Cather
Atavism
Alice Walker
Nathaniel Hawthorne
42. 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.'
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Epic Story
Flannery O'Connor
James Fenimore Cooper
43. 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
Beat Writers
James Fenimore Cooper
Genteel Tradition
Gothic
44. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Meter
Monologue
James Thurbur
Thomas Jefferson
45. 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
Naturalism
John Adams
Epic Story
Toni Morrison
46. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Benjamin Franklin
Refrain
Stanza
Flannery O'Connor
47. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
William Bradford
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Scientism
Emile Zola
48. 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.
Darwinism
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Zora Neal Hurston
Jonathan Edwards
49. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
James Thurbur
Atavism
Poetry
Jack Kerouac
50. (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
Jonathan Edwards
The Declaration of Independence
Stephen Crane
William Bradford