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CLEP American Literature
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1. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
John Smith
Edgar Lee Masters
Jack London
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. 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
Determinism
Racialism
Frederick Douglass
3. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Henry David Thoreau
Richard Wright
Stephen Crane
Modernism
4. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Stephen Crane
Iambic Pentameter
Edward Teller
F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. 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
Allen Ginsberg
Thomas Morton
William Faulkner
Ezra Pound
6. 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'
Walt Whitman
Toni Morrison
William S. Burroughs
Naturalism
7. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
J.D Salinger
Puritan Poetry
Rhyme
8. 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
Stephen Crane
Herman Melville
The Day of Doom
Drama
9. 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
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Willa Cather
Anne Sexton
10. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Vachel Lindsay
Countee Cullen
11. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Nietzscheism
Kate Chopin
Benjamin Franklin
Social Darwinism
12. 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
Gothic
John Smith
Beat Writers
Stephen Crane
13. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Rhythm
Epic Story
Meter
Robert Frost
14. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Countee Cullen
Jonathan Edwards
James Baldwin
Realism
15. 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.
Meter
Zora Neal Hurston
Calvinism
Racialism
16. 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.
Allen Ginsberg
Saul Bellow
Realism
Gwendolyn Brooks
17. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Beat Movement
Imagist Poetry
Allen Ginsberg
James Weldon Johnson
18. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Alice Walker
J.D Salinger
Rhyme Scheme
James Weldon Johnson
19. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
William Bradford
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Modernism
Scientism
20. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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21. (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
William Byrd
John Steinbeck
Ralph Ellison
Cotton Mather
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.
Ezra Pound
Washington Irving
Mayflower Compact
Three main colonial era poets
23. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Meter
Verse
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Ralph Ellison
24. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Flannery O'Connor
Beat Writers
Polemic
Epic Story
25. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Norman Mailer
James Fenimore Cooper
William S. Burroughs
James Weldon Johnson
26. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Foot
Edward Teller
Melting Pot
Bret Harte
27. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Allen Ginsberg
Prose
James Thurbur
Thomas Paine
28. 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.
Blank Verse
Nativism
John Steinbeck
Carl Sandburg
29. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Samuel Sewall
Beat Writers
Toni Morrison
Foot
30. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Flannery O'Connor
Benjamin Franklin
Anne Sexton
Ezra Pound
31. 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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gothic
Foot
Transcendentalism
32. '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
Mayflower Compact
Phillip Roth
Ernest Hemmingway
Anne Sexton
33. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Imagist Poetry
Calvinism
Broadside
Jack London
34. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Ballad
Nativism
Ernest Hemmingway
The 3 primary literary genres
35. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Blank Verse
Erica Jong
Herman Melville
Poetry
36. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Jean Toomer
Ralph Ellison
Drama
Meter
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
Scientism
Romanticism
Scan
Polemic
38. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Rhyme
Toni Morrison
Rhyme Scheme
Carl Sandburg
39. 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.
Langston Hughes
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Loss of Traditional Values
Zora Neal Hurston
40. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Monologue
Ralph Ellison
Erica Jong
41. 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
Epic Story
Thomas Paine
W.E.B Du Bois
Saul Bellow
42. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Beat Movement
The Declaration of Independence
Drama
Vachel Lindsay
43. Well-known humorists.
Racialism
Refrain
Polemic
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
44. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Prose
Monologue
Scan
Imagist Poetry
45. Local Colorist Wrote 'The Awakening' Writing is memorable for its : Vivid and economical style - Rich Local Dialect - and Penetrating view of the culture of South Louisiana.
e.e cummings
Allen Ginsberg
Kate Chopin
Loss of Traditional Values
46. 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
Richard Wright
John Smith
Alice Walker
47. A stanza.
Verse
Thomas Paine
Henry James
Lyres
48. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Jack London
Thomas Paine
Narrative Poem
Melting Pot
49. 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
William Bradford
Emily Dickinson
Saul Bellow
Washington Irving
50. 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
Henry David Thoreau
James Thurbur
The Day of Doom
Abigail Adams