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CLEP American Literature
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1. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Naturalism
Jean Toomer
Dorthy Parker
John Steinbeck
2. 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.
Stanza
Zora Neal Hurston
Ezra Pound
Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Prose
Genteel Tradition
James Baldwin
Allen Ginsberg
4. 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
Wonders of the Invisible World
Mayflower Compact
James Fenimore Cooper
Emily Dickinson
5. 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
Kate Chopin
Ernest Hemmingway
Imagist Poetry
Narrative Poem
6. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Rhyme
Verse
Alice Walker
7. 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.
Robert Frost
Rhythm
Zora Neal Hurston
Edward Teller
8. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Darwinism
Nietzscheism
The 3 primary literary genres
9. 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.
William S. Burroughs
John Steinbeck
Sarah Orne Jewett
James Thurbur
10. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Ernest Hemmingway
Broadside
The 3 primary literary genres
Anne Sexton
11. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Ezra Pound
Countee Cullen
Nativism
Sonnet
12. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Ezra Pound
Blank Verse
T.S Eliot
13. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Transcendental Club
The Day of Doom
Racialism
John Smith
14. 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
Atavism
Jean Toomer
Scientism
15. '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
Ralph Ellison
Ernest Hemmingway
John Steinbeck
Lyric Poem
16. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Realism
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Modernism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Rhythm
Melting Pot
Drama
Three main colonial era poets
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
American Adam
Rhythm
Transcendentalism
Norman Mailer
19. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Claude McKay
Henry David Thoreau
Stanza
Darwinism
20. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
J.D Salinger
The Declaration of Independence
Narrative Poem
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
21. 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
Melting Pot
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Darwinism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
22. 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
Benjamin Franklin
Henry James
Refrain
Nativism
23. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Thomas Morton
Calvinism
Loss of Traditional Values
Vachel Lindsay
24. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Three main colonial era poets
Zora Neal Hurston
Rhyme
25. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Flannery O'Connor
Beat Movement
Ballad
Darwinism
26. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Thomas Morton
Loaded Words
Meter
Edith Wharton
27. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Maya Angelou
Saul Bellow
Thomas Jefferson
Melting Pot
28. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Stephen Crane
Benjamin Franklin
Abigail Adams
American Adam
29. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Melting Pot
John Adams
Prose
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
30. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Stanza
Loaded Words
Alice Walker
Ralph Ellison
31. (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
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Jonathan Edwards
Allen Ginsberg
Herman Melville
32. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Henry James
Persona
William Byrd
Racialism
33. Wrote 'The House of Mirth -' and 'The Age of Innocence' most famous for 'Ethan Frome' Noted use of indirection and allusion. First women to win a Pulitzer for 'The Age of Innocence' Main themes were upper-class life and the constraints it placed on b
Norman Mailer
Social Darwinism
John Winthrop
Edith Wharton
34. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Kate Chopin
Determinism
Theodore Dreiser
Persona
35. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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36. Clever - memorable sayings.
Aphorisms
Jack London
Thomas Jefferson
Racialism
37. 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
Transcendental Club
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Broadside
38. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Rhyme Scheme
Persona
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Foot
39. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Iambic Pentameter
Cotton Mather
Richard Wright
Saul Bellow
40. 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
John Steinbeck
Edith Wharton
Frederick Douglass
Carl Sandburg
41. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Calvinism
Phillip Roth
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mayflower Compact
42. 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
Beat Writers
Calvinism
Walt Whitman
Dorthy Parker
43. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Jack London
Transcendentalism
Willa Cather
James Baldwin
44. 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.
Henry James
Mayflower Compact
William Faulkner
Stephen Crane
45. A stanza.
Verse
Sonnet
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Edwin Arlington Robinson
46. Well-known humorists.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Thomas Paine
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Washington Irving
47. Ben Franklin paid his passage to America. First Pamphlet was Common Sense : credited with getting the colonists to see the 'advantage - necessity - and obligation' of breaking with Britain. Followed by a series of pamphlets - collectively called 'An
Rhythm
Thomas Paine
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Monologue
48. 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
Washington Irving
Phillip Roth
Langston Hughes
Imagist Poetry
49. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Ernest Hemmingway
Walt Whitman
Prose
Loss of Traditional Values
50. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Jonathan Edwards
Lyric Poem
Nativism
J.D Salinger
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