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CLEP American Literature
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1. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Emile Zola
Narrative Poem
Modernism
William S. Burroughs
2. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Foot
The Day of Doom
Stanza
Norman Mailer
3. 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.
Blank Verse
T.S Eliot
Zora Neal Hurston
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
4. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Maya Angelou
Broadside
Ballad
Rhythm
5. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Refrain
Washington Irving
Booker T. Washington
Thomas Jefferson
6. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Genteel Tradition
Nietzscheism
Racialism
Thomas Morton
7. 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
Nietzscheism
Lyres
Gothic
Ezra Pound
8. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Loaded Words
Iambic Pentameter
Verse
9. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Erica Jong
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Drama
Jack Kerouac
10. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Aphorisms
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Sewall
Three main colonial era poets
11. Considered the greatest humorist of 19th century American Literature. Wrote 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' Master of 'Local Color' writing. Used vernacular - exaggeration and deadpan narrator to create humor.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Melting Pot
James Thurbur
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
12. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Ernest Hemmingway
Gothic
Scientism
Genteel Tradition
13. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Sonnet
The Day of Doom
Maya Angelou
Samuel Sewall
14. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Frederick Douglass
Atavism
James Weldon Johnson
Poetry
15. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vachel Lindsay
Thomas Jefferson
J.D Salinger
16. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Norman Mailer
Ralph Ellison
e.e cummings
Edgar Allen Poe
17. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Nietzscheism
Ezra Pound
Anne Sexton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
18. 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
Verse
Edith Wharton
Social Darwinism
Bret Harte
19. (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
J.D Salinger
Saul Bellow
Cotton Mather
James Baldwin
20. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Free Verse
Jack London
Vachel Lindsay
James Fenimore Cooper
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
William S. Burroughs
Maya Angelou
John Winthrop
Ezra Pound
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
Romanticism
Social Darwinism
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
James Baldwin
23. 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.
e.e cummings
Frederick Douglass
Allegory
Walt Whitman
24. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Meter
Aphorisms
Dorthy Parker
25. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Saul Bellow
Thomas Jefferson
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Racialism
26. Clever - memorable sayings.
Rhyme
Aphorisms
Transcendentalism
Sonnet
27. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Beat Writers
Nietzscheism
Toni Morrison
Theodore Dreiser
28. 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.
Ezra Pound
William S. Burroughs
Broadside
Frederick Douglass
29. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Kate Chopin
Iambic Pentameter
Realism
Allegory
30. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
James Weldon Johnson
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Countee Cullen
Modernism
31. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Epic Story
James Weldon Johnson
Loaded Words
Saul Bellow
32. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Puritan Poetry
Henry James
Prose
33. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Scan
Vachel Lindsay
W.E.B Du Bois
Verse
34. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Modernism
Frank Norris
Meter
Blank Verse
35. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
James Baldwin
Edward Teller
Foot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Iambic Pentameter
Edgar Allen Poe
John Smith
Washington Irving
37. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Beat Writers
Gwendolyn Brooks
Monologue
Free Verse
38. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Determinism
Narrative Poem
Rhythm
Gwendolyn Brooks
39. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Ballad
Prose
Jack London
Three main colonial era poets
40. 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Winthrop
Harriet Beecher Stowe
T.S Eliot
41. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Loaded Words
J.D Salinger
Transcendentalism
Darwinism
42. 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
Robert Lowell
Edgar Lee Masters
Epic Story
Zora Neal Hurston
43. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Drama
Robert Lowell
Erica Jong
Social Darwinism
44. 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
William S. Burroughs
Nativism
Henry David Thoreau
Cotton Mather
45. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Melting Pot
Allen Ginsberg
Edwin Arlington Robinson
46. 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
Ralph Ellison
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
James Thurbur
47. An organization of the leading transcendentalists living around Boston. They were interested in new developments in theology - philosophy - and literature. Major writers: Ripley - Emerson - Alcott - Fuller - Hawthorne - Thoreau - Channing - Hedge - P
Blank Verse
Transcendental Club
Anne Sexton
American Adam
48. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
James Weldon Johnson
The Declaration of Independence
Jonathan Edwards
Sarah Orne Jewett
49. A stanza.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Verse
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Scientism
50. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Edgar Lee Masters
Lyric Poem
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