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CLEP American Literature
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1. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Thomas Paine
Broadside
Loaded Words
Stanza
2. A stanza.
Herman Melville
Langston Hughes
Verse
Cotton Mather
3. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
William Byrd
Maya Angelou
Flannery O'Connor
Social Darwinism
4. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Norman Mailer
Erica Jong
Scan
Meter
5. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Allen Ginsberg
Carl Sandburg
Allegory
Saul Bellow
6. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Stephen Crane
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Melting Pot
7. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
William Faulkner
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Blank Verse
8. 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
Alice Walker
The 3 primary literary genres
Transcendentalism
Lyric Poem
9. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Sylvia Plath
Rhyme
Claude McKay
Persona
10. 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
John Smith
Henry David Thoreau
Social Darwinism
Henry James
11. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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12. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Allegory
Booker T. Washington
Loss of Traditional Values
Anne Sexton
13. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Flannery O'Connor
Free Verse
Refrain
Robert Lowell
14. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Walt Whitman
Maya Angelou
Thomas Paine
John Adams
15. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Darwinism
J.D Salinger
Richard Wright
Iambic Pentameter
16. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Lyric Poem
Foot
Persona
The 3 primary literary genres
17. (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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edgar Lee Masters
Jonathan Edwards
Verse
18. 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
Calvinism
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Emily Dickinson
Samuel Sewall
19. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Allegory
Modernism
Robert Frost
Edward Teller
20. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Edgar Lee Masters
Mayflower Compact
Willa Cather
Lyric Poem
21. 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.
Loss of Traditional Values
John Adams
T.S Eliot
Sarah Orne Jewett
22. 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
Rhythm
Sarah Orne Jewett
T.S Eliot
Romanticism
23. Wrote gold-rush stories like 'The Luck of Roaring Camp' and 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat'; never matched up to his previous fame local colorist
William S. Burroughs
Verse
Bret Harte
Toni Morrison
24. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Nietzscheism
Gothic
Frank Norris
Carl Sandburg
25. (Colonial Period) Wrote Of Plymouth Plantation (First Thanksgiving) - Chronicled the Pilgrim experience from the religious considerations that caused them to leave England for Holland and then for America.Style is dignified and Grave - and events are
Genteel Tradition
William Bradford
Darwinism
James Weldon Johnson
26. The belief that 'true' Americans were those of earlier Anglo-Saxon descent - and that this 'race' was under threat from the growing influx of Central European and Asian immigrants.
Meter
Nativism
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
27. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Lyres
Modernism
Emile Zola
Edward Teller
28. (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
William Bradford
John Winthrop
Realism
Kate Chopin
29. (Colonial Period) Primarily written to set forth orthodox Calvinist Christianity. Not considered the best representation of poetry during the whole period. Rarely approached excellence of English models. Too much of an emphasis on heavenly values and
Puritan Poetry
Romanticism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Vachel Lindsay
30. 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.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
John Steinbeck
Robert Lowell
Transcendentalism
31. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Robert Lowell
Poetry
John Smith
Frank Norris
32. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Dorthy Parker
Romanticism
Iambic Pentameter
33. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Anne Sexton
American Adam
Saul Bellow
Realism
34. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Stanza
Beat Movement
Jack London
35. 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'
Realism
Ezra Pound
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Verse
36. 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.'
Richard Wright
Henry James
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
37. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Mayflower Compact
Beat Writers
Modernism
Harriet Beecher Stowe
38. Prose - Poetry - Drama
T.S Eliot
The 3 primary literary genres
Mayflower Compact
Wonders of the Invisible World
39. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
John Steinbeck
Polemic
Robert Lowell
Carl Sandburg
40. Well-known humorists.
James Baldwin
James Fenimore Cooper
Rhyme
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
41. 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
Poetry
Emily Dickinson
John Adams
42. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
W.E.B Du Bois
Phillip Roth
Aphorisms
The Declaration of Independence
43. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Abigail Adams
Henry James
Foot
Gothic
44. 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
J.D Salinger
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herman Melville
Edgar Allen Poe
45. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Foot
Racialism
Maya Angelou
Narrative Poem
46. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
W.E.B Du Bois
Wonders of the Invisible World
John Winthrop
Blank Verse
47. Chicago School - Wrote 'Lucinda Matlock' - Created 'Spoon River Anthology' - Spoon River poems are characterized by: An unpoetic - colloquial style - frank descriptions of sex - a very critical view of small town life - and a description of he inner
Edward Teller
Ernest Hemmingway
J.D Salinger
Edgar Lee Masters
48. Clever - memorable sayings.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Persona
Aphorisms
William S. Burroughs
49. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Narrative Poem
Frank Norris
Langston Hughes
Calvinism
50. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Poetry
Beat Movement
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nathaniel Hawthorne