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CLEP American Literature
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1. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Puritan Poetry
Stanza
Maya Angelou
Transcendental Club
2. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
John Winthrop
James Fenimore Cooper
Genteel Tradition
Loaded Words
3. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Rhyme
Monologue
Jack Kerouac
Robert Lowell
4. (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
Rhythm
Imagist Poetry
Calvinism
Atavism
5. 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.'
Beat Movement
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Jack London
Richard Wright
6. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Broadside
Washington Irving
William Byrd
Scientism
7. Wished to return to more primitive principles - to simplicity - sobriety - religious earnestness - and personal self-control. Aim was to purify church of England from 'Popery' - Persecuted harshly by Charles I and Archbishop of Canterbury William Lau
Norman Mailer
Nativism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Rhyme
8. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Countee Cullen
Lyric Poem
John Smith
9. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Frank Norris
James Baldwin
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John Smith
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
Henry David Thoreau
William Faulkner
The Declaration of Independence
William S. Burroughs
11. 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
Sonnet
Edith Wharton
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
James Thurbur
12. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Edith Wharton
Persona
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Ellison
13. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Genteel Tradition
James Weldon Johnson
Robert Lowell
Saul Bellow
14. 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
Nietzscheism
Wonders of the Invisible World
Thomas Morton
Walt Whitman
15. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
William Faulkner
Scientism
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Narrative Poem
16. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ezra Pound
Darwinism
Ballad
Racialism
17. 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
Scan
Phillip Roth
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
18. (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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Bradford
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Edith Wharton
19. Characterized by: Ordinary Language - Free Verse - Concentrated Word Pictures - Very specific words and phrases - Advanced by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell; also utilized by Robert Frost
Calvinism
Stanza
William Faulkner
Imagist Poetry
20. 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.
Jack London
Atavism
Aphorisms
Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Ezra Pound
Sarah Orne Jewett
Gwendolyn Brooks
22. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Verse
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Smith
Robert Lowell
23. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Rhyme
Emile Zola
James Weldon Johnson
Persona
24. 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
Ezra Pound
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Scientism
Beat Movement
25. 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.
William Byrd
Mayflower Compact
Countee Cullen
William Faulkner
26. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
T.S Eliot
Jack Kerouac
Atavism
Sylvia Plath
27. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Broadside
Henry James
Saul Bellow
Scientism
28. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
William Byrd
Richard Wright
Mayflower Compact
Frank Norris
29. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Rhyme
James Thurbur
John Adams
James Baldwin
30. 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.
Frederick Douglass
Herman Melville
Scientism
Zora Neal Hurston
31. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Refrain
Rhyme
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The 3 primary literary genres
32. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Ernest Hemmingway
Emily Dickinson
William Byrd
Cotton Mather
33. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
James Thurbur
Scan
Melting Pot
Narrative Poem
34. 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
Realism
Abigail Adams
Langston Hughes
Henry James
35. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sarah Orne Jewett
Lyres
36. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Washington Irving
William Bradford
Beat Writers
37. 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.
Vachel Lindsay
Jonathan Edwards
Frederick Douglass
Zora Neal Hurston
38. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Puritan Poetry
Vachel Lindsay
Nietzscheism
Walt Whitman
39. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Determinism
Ballad
Ralph Ellison
Three main colonial era poets
40. 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'
Countee Cullen
Beat Movement
Toni Morrison
Sylvia Plath
41. A stanza.
Norman Mailer
Frank Norris
Vachel Lindsay
Verse
42. Well-known humorists.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Beat Movement
Determinism
Anne Sexton
43. '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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemmingway
Polemic
Washington Irving
44. (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
Determinism
Jonathan Edwards
Rhyme
Romanticism
45. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Frank Norris
Nativism
Thomas Morton
Benjamin Franklin
46. 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.
William S. Burroughs
Theodore Dreiser
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Flannery O'Connor
47. 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
Toni Morrison
Monologue
Nathaniel Hawthorne
48. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Frank Norris
The 3 primary literary genres
Nativism
Realism
49. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Allegory
Benjamin Franklin
Richard Wright
50. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Modernism
The Day of Doom
Phillip Roth
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