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CLEP American Literature
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1. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Free Verse
Rhythm
Booker T. Washington
T.S Eliot
2. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Stanza
William S. Burroughs
Ralph Ellison
The Declaration of Independence
3. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Emily Dickinson
Prose
Dorthy Parker
Mary Wilkins Freeman
4. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edgar Allen Poe
Refrain
Genteel Tradition
Edward Teller
5. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
James Weldon Johnson
W.E.B Du Bois
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
William Faulkner
6. 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.
Meter
Nativism
John Steinbeck
Rhythm
7. All events follow natural laws.
Determinism
W.E.B Du Bois
The Day of Doom
Edgar Lee Masters
8. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Persona
Stanza
Countee Cullen
Allen Ginsberg
9. (Colonial Period) One of colonial New England's most eminent clergyman. Greatest achievement was as an historian of the Puritan experience. 'Diary of Cotton Mather' - Account of Mather wrestling with sexual temptation to marry a much younger women di
The Day of Doom
Dorthy Parker
Cotton Mather
Samuel Sewall
10. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Willa Cather
Alice Walker
John Winthrop
Puritan Poetry
11. 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
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Puritan Poetry
American Adam
12. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
Sarah Orne Jewett
Booker T. Washington
Ballad
13. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Imagist Poetry
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Scan
Darwinism
14. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Henry James
Broadside
Richard Wright
Ralph Ellison
15. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
Jack London
American Adam
Sarah Orne Jewett
16. Wrote 'Richard Cory' - Created poems dealing with historic myths and characters. Known primarily for short - ironic characteristics of ordinary individuals. Won 3 Pulitzers : 'Collected Poems -' 'The Man Who Died Twice -' and 'Tristram'
Countee Cullen
William Bradford
Thomas Jefferson
Edwin Arlington Robinson
17. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Sonnet
Romanticism
Social Darwinism
Edward Teller
18. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ernest Hemmingway
Ballad
Rhythm
Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Walt Whitman
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Free Verse
Benjamin Franklin
20. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
James Fenimore Cooper
Frank Norris
Blank Verse
Rhythm
21. (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
John Winthrop
Lyric Poem
Zora Neal Hurston
Free Verse
22. 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
James Baldwin
Meter
Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. 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
Poetry
Samuel Sewall
Herman Melville
Rhythm
24. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Foot
William Faulkner
e.e cummings
Lyres
25. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Willa Cather
Abigail Adams
John Smith
Richard Wright
26. 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
Stephen Crane
Rhyme
James Fenimore Cooper
Dorthy Parker
27. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Puritan Poetry
Benjamin Franklin
Allegory
Erica Jong
28. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Vachel Lindsay
Washington Irving
Kate Chopin
Allen Ginsberg
29. Wrote 'Songs of Jamaica' - Poetry and 'Harlem Shadows' (first great literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance. Much of his poetry evokes the rich heritage of Jamaica.
Ralph Ellison
Claude McKay
Meter
Henry David Thoreau
30. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Robert Lowell
James Baldwin
Gothic
Drama
31. 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.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
e.e cummings
Stephen Crane
William Bradford
32. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Beat Writers
Robert Frost
Nietzscheism
Aphorisms
33. Clever - memorable sayings.
Toni Morrison
The 3 primary literary genres
Claude McKay
Aphorisms
34. 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.
Langston Hughes
William Faulkner
Thomas Morton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
35. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Vachel Lindsay
Willa Cather
Samuel Sewall
James Weldon Johnson
36. 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
James Weldon Johnson
Transcendentalism
John Adams
Beat Movement
37. 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
Langston Hughes
Booker T. Washington
Rhyme
Thomas Paine
38. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Loss of Traditional Values
Willa Cather
Erica Jong
Anne Sexton
39. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Transcendentalism
Wonders of the Invisible World
William S. Burroughs
W.E.B Du Bois
40. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Anne Sexton
Broadside
Robert Lowell
J.D Salinger
41. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Sonnet
Theodore Dreiser
Phillip Roth
Poetry
42. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Foot
Gwendolyn Brooks
Scientism
Jack London
43. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Robert Lowell
Jack Kerouac
William Byrd
J.D Salinger
44. 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'
Sylvia Plath
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Beat Movement
William S. Burroughs
45. (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
Edgar Lee Masters
Thomas Morton
Willa Cather
Stanza
46. Wrote 'The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.' Escaped slave that became one o f the most effective orators of his day - an influential newspaper writer - a militant abolitionist - and a famous diplomat.
Norman Mailer
Frederick Douglass
Bret Harte
Mary Wilkins Freeman
47. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Edith Wharton
Lyric Poem
Zora Neal Hurston
Langston Hughes
48. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Social Darwinism
William Faulkner
Foot
Edwin Arlington Robinson
49. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
John Smith
Thomas Paine
Kate Chopin
Erica Jong
50. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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