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CLEP American Literature
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1. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Edgar Lee Masters
Aphorisms
Emily Dickinson
Iambic Pentameter
2. 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.
Realism
Lyres
Zora Neal Hurston
Poetry
3. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Alice Walker
Atavism
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Jack Kerouac
4. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Rhythm
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edith Wharton
Racialism
5. 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.
James Thurbur
Edith Wharton
John Steinbeck
Countee Cullen
6. In the 1920s - became the symbol of the liberated woman for her wit and independence. Known for her caustic and clever poems and short stories.
Meter
Henry James
Thomas Jefferson
Dorthy Parker
7. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Broadside
Transcendental Club
The Day of Doom
Vachel Lindsay
8. 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
James Weldon Johnson
Carl Sandburg
e.e cummings
Realism
9. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Melting Pot
James Baldwin
Samuel Sewall
Refrain
10. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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11. (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
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Kate Chopin
Calvinism
Booker T. Washington
12. 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
Loss of Traditional Values
William Faulkner
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
13. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Prose
Blank Verse
F. Scott Fitzgerald
T.S Eliot
14. 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.
Langston Hughes
William Faulkner
Jack Kerouac
Jack London
15. 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
Abigail Adams
Darwinism
Ezra Pound
e.e cummings
16. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
John Winthrop
Ezra Pound
Theodore Dreiser
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
17. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Calvinism
Foot
Toni Morrison
James Weldon Johnson
18. 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.
Social Darwinism
Sarah Orne Jewett
Kate Chopin
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
19. Wrote 'The Red Badge of Courage' and 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets -' and 'The Open Boat.' Red Badge of Courage is considered the first modern war novel. Work is celebrated for its images and symbolism. Work is often described as impressionist due t
J.D Salinger
James Baldwin
Stephen Crane
Wonders of the Invisible World
20. 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
Abigail Adams
Drama
Meter
Henry James
21. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
Walt Whitman
Booker T. Washington
Allen Ginsberg
22. '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
Edgar Allen Poe
John Steinbeck
Beat Movement
Ernest Hemmingway
23. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Lyric Poem
The Day of Doom
Loss of Traditional Values
Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. 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
Monologue
William S. Burroughs
Edgar Allen Poe
Sarah Orne Jewett
25. 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
T.S Eliot
Willa Cather
Aphorisms
Flannery O'Connor
26. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
William Faulkner
Scan
Blank Verse
John Smith
27. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Rhyme
Henry James
James Baldwin
Allegory
28. 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'
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Verse
The 3 primary literary genres
Frank Norris
29. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
J.D Salinger
Blank Verse
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Allen Ginsberg
30. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Atavism
Zora Neal Hurston
Vachel Lindsay
31. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Foot
Sonnet
Jack Kerouac
Scientism
32. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Benjamin Franklin
Gwendolyn Brooks
Bret Harte
Edwin Arlington Robinson
33. 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.
Loaded Words
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Booker T. Washington
Broadside
34. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Jack London
Edward Teller
Claude McKay
John Adams
35. (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
Sarah Orne Jewett
Social Darwinism
Jonathan Edwards
Verse
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
Vachel Lindsay
Imagist Poetry
Ezra Pound
Transcendentalism
37. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allen Poe
38. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Iambic Pentameter
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Frank Norris
Sarah Orne Jewett
39. 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.
Loss of Traditional Values
Zora Neal Hurston
Booker T. Washington
William Faulkner
40. 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
William S. Burroughs
Drama
Imagist Poetry
41. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Allen Poe
William Byrd
Puritan Poetry
42. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Jack Kerouac
William S. Burroughs
Edith Wharton
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
43. Written by Michael Wigglesworth - the most famous poem of 17th Century - proceeds from judgement day to hell and then to paradise. First American Best Seller.
Zora Neal Hurston
The Day of Doom
Wonders of the Invisible World
Ernest Hemmingway
44. 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
Jack Kerouac
Edgar Allen Poe
James Baldwin
Washington Irving
45. 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'
Puritan Poetry
Meter
Stephen Crane
William S. Burroughs
46. 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
Abigail Adams
Calvinism
Walt Whitman
Three main colonial era poets
47. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Verse
Anne Sexton
Erica Jong
William Byrd
48. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Rhyme Scheme
James Fenimore Cooper
Wonders of the Invisible World
Henry James
49. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Zora Neal Hurston
Racialism
Refrain
Rhythm
50. 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.
Herman Melville
e.e cummings
Transcendentalism
Ernest Hemmingway