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CLEP American Literature

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1. Clever - memorable sayings.






2. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet






3. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'






4. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.






5. Well-known humorists.






6. 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






7. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'






8. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.






9. 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






10. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.






11. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.






12. 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






13. All events follow natural laws.






14. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP






15. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor






16. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.

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17. 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






18. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.






19. 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






20. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'






21. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.






22. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot






23. 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.






24. 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






25. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'






26. 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'






27. 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






28. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.






29. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.






30. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.






31. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.






32. 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






33. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.






34. 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.






35. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'






36. 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






37. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.






38. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'






39. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'






40. 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






41. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'






42. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur






43. 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






44. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.






45. Literary movement of the 19th century that traced the effects of heredity and environment on people who ere helpless to change their situations. Also called Determinism for its belief in the effects of environment - heredity - and chance on human fat






46. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'






47. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.






48. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart






49. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.






50. 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