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CLEP American Literature
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1. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Broadside
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
Allegory
2. 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.
Robert Frost
Nativism
Benjamin Franklin
Allegory
3. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Imagist Poetry
Naturalism
Theodore Dreiser
Anne Sexton
4. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Monologue
Prose
Transcendentalism
Ballad
5. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Nietzscheism
Lyres
Melting Pot
6. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Benjamin Franklin
Norman Mailer
Racialism
Loss of Traditional Values
7. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Racialism
Sonnet
Mayflower Compact
Realism
8. (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
William Bradford
Allen Ginsberg
Mayflower Compact
Nativism
9. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Edward Teller
William Byrd
Wonders of the Invisible World
Rhythm
10. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Jack Kerouac
Modernism
Foot
Emile Zola
11. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Maya Angelou
Ezra Pound
Rhythm
Aphorisms
12. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Social Darwinism
Henry David Thoreau
T.S Eliot
Drama
13. 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Booker T. Washington
Loaded Words
Polemic
14. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Social Darwinism
Free Verse
Iambic Pentameter
The 3 primary literary genres
15. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Vachel Lindsay
John Adams
Jack London
Richard Wright
16. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Richard Wright
Narrative Poem
Racialism
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
17. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Calvinism
Frank Norris
Lyres
Social Darwinism
18. Created the first American adventure story. First successful American novelist. 'Father of the American novel.' Very litigious - cranky and vain. Most famous for the 'Leatherstocking Tales': A series of five novels about the frontiersman - Natty Bump
Allegory
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The 3 primary literary genres
James Fenimore Cooper
19. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Sylvia Plath
John Winthrop
Anne Sexton
Edwin Arlington Robinson
20. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Puritan Poetry
Edgar Allen Poe
Darwinism
Rhythm
21. 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.
The Day of Doom
Norman Mailer
Romanticism
James Baldwin
22. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Epic Story
The 3 primary literary genres
Zora Neal Hurston
Racialism
23. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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24. 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
Refrain
Abigail Adams
Bret Harte
Mayflower Compact
25. 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
Ballad
Transcendentalism
T.S Eliot
Broadside
26. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Washington Irving
W.E.B Du Bois
John Adams
Langston Hughes
27. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Lyric Poem
Edward Teller
Emile Zola
Verse
28. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Broadside
Three main colonial era poets
Racialism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Vachel Lindsay
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Booker T. Washington
James Thurbur
30. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Theodore Dreiser
Norman Mailer
Modernism
Darwinism
31. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Allegory
Benjamin Franklin
Epic Story
The 3 primary literary genres
32. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Edith Wharton
Washington Irving
Melting Pot
Mary Wilkins Freeman
33. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Realism
Kate Chopin
James Fenimore Cooper
Willa Cather
34. 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
Carl Sandburg
Emile Zola
Anne Sexton
William Faulkner
35. 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
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
John Adams
Henry David Thoreau
Realism
36. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Persona
Imagist Poetry
Maya Angelou
The Declaration of Independence
37. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Booker T. Washington
Stephen Crane
Saul Bellow
Atavism
38. Well-known humorists.
Henry David Thoreau
William Faulkner
The 3 primary literary genres
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
39. First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Novel focus on black cultural identity in contemporary America. Wrote 'The Bluest Eye -' 'Tar Baby -' and 'Beloved'
Toni Morrison
Persona
Jack Kerouac
Erica Jong
40. (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
Theodore Dreiser
Abigail Adams
Frederick Douglass
Puritan Poetry
41. 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.
John Steinbeck
Norman Mailer
Narrative Poem
Wonders of the Invisible World
42. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Polemic
Prose
Allegory
Edward Teller
43. 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.
Racialism
Phillip Roth
Ballad
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
44. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
William Faulkner
Robert Lowell
Genteel Tradition
Richard Wright
45. 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.'
Flannery O'Connor
Transcendental Club
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Sylvia Plath
46. 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
Jonathan Edwards
Abigail Adams
Iambic Pentameter
47. 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.
Dorthy Parker
Henry James
Aphorisms
Anne Sexton
48. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Phillip Roth
Racialism
James Fenimore Cooper
Robert Frost
49. The reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some distant ancestor that have not been present in intervening generations - such as hand like a hairy paw.
Epic Story
Loaded Words
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Atavism
50. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Walt Whitman
Jack Kerouac
James Fenimore Cooper
James Weldon Johnson