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CLEP American Literature
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1. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
John Steinbeck
Free Verse
Polemic
Rhythm
2. 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
Herman Melville
Prose
Erica Jong
Allegory
3. (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
Lyres
Jonathan Edwards
Determinism
Robert Frost
4. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Persona
John Adams
American Adam
Ernest Hemmingway
5. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Willa Cather
Thomas Jefferson
Modernism
Loss of Traditional Values
6. 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
The Declaration of Independence
Henry James
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jack London
7. (Colonial Period) 1. God is King and Ruler. 2. Our duty in this world is to see that God's will prevails.3. Man is depraved from birth. 4. Few will be saved. Damned are damned despite their best efforts. Belief in Covenant Theology : God's covenant w
Imagist Poetry
Calvinism
Scientism
Willa Cather
8. 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
John Smith
T.S Eliot
Jack London
Scientism
9. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Verse
Richard Wright
American Adam
Prose
10. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
James Weldon Johnson
Claude McKay
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lyric Poem
11. 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
William S. Burroughs
Henry David Thoreau
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ezra Pound
12. All events follow natural laws.
Determinism
William Faulkner
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Edward Teller
13. Use of medieval - wild - or mysterious elements in literature. Features gloomy settings and horrifying events. Edgar Allen Poe is regarded as the American Master of Gothic writing.
Frederick Douglass
Gothic
Refrain
Blank Verse
14. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Loss of Traditional Values
John Smith
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Dorthy Parker
15. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Baldwin
Social Darwinism
Atavism
16. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Maya Angelou
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Frederick Douglass
Jack Kerouac
17. Clever - memorable sayings.
Countee Cullen
Aphorisms
Kate Chopin
The 3 primary literary genres
18. 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.
Jonathan Edwards
Phillip Roth
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Frederick Douglass
19. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
James Fenimore Cooper
The Declaration of Independence
John Smith
Edwin Arlington Robinson
20. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Sarah Orne Jewett
Emile Zola
The 3 primary literary genres
Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. 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'
American Adam
Jack Kerouac
Edward Teller
William S. Burroughs
22. 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
Social Darwinism
Thomas Paine
Kate Chopin
23. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Edgar Lee Masters
Jean Toomer
Anne Sexton
Prose
24. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ballad
William Byrd
Allegory
25. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Langston Hughes
Frederick Douglass
Loss of Traditional Values
Epic Story
26. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Scientism
Rhyme Scheme
Richard Wright
Cotton Mather
27. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Broadside
Willa Cather
Allen Ginsberg
J.D Salinger
28. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Racialism
Alice Walker
Ralph Ellison
Washington Irving
29. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
J.D Salinger
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Cotton Mather
Refrain
30. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Free Verse
Erica Jong
Transcendentalism
Frederick Douglass
31. 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
Edith Wharton
Cotton Mather
Prose
Stephen Crane
32. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Stanza
Broadside
Saul Bellow
Alice Walker
33. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Broadside
Alice Walker
William Faulkner
Loss of Traditional Values
34. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Thomas Jefferson
Racialism
Norman Mailer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
35. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Nietzscheism
Beat Movement
Transcendental Club
Maya Angelou
36. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Rhyme
Beat Movement
Persona
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
37. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
James Thurbur
Persona
Realism
Booker T. Washington
38. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Thurbur
Ralph Ellison
Cotton Mather
39. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Jack Kerouac
Rhythm
Henry James
James Thurbur
40. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Prose
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
41. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Prose
Beat Writers
Scientism
Ralph Ellison
42. Well-known humorists.
American Adam
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
James Thurbur
Benjamin Franklin
43. 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.
Abigail Adams
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Realism
44. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Rhyme
James Weldon Johnson
Drama
Beat Movement
45. 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.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Washington Irving
Thomas Paine
Ralph Ellison
46. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Social Darwinism
Emile Zola
John Smith
Broadside
47. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Persona
Jack London
Meter
48. 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
Meter
Imagist Poetry
Romanticism
American Adam
49. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Anne Sexton
Vachel Lindsay
Frederick Douglass
Cotton Mather
50. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Beat Movement
Benjamin Franklin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rhyme Scheme
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