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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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'
Jack London
William S. Burroughs
Frank Norris
Countee Cullen
2. 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
Scientism
Stanza
Henry James
American Adam
3. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Calvinism
Nietzscheism
American Adam
Prose
4. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Robert Lowell
Poetry
Alice Walker
Wonders of the Invisible World
5. 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
Verse
Prose
Realism
6. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Walt Whitman
The 3 primary literary genres
John Adams
Aphorisms
7. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Allen Ginsberg
Melting Pot
Phillip Roth
Dorthy Parker
8. 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.
Meter
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Carl Sandburg
Rhythm
9. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
The Day of Doom
Thomas Jefferson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Social Darwinism
10. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Allen Ginsberg
Alice Walker
Gothic
Theodore Dreiser
11. '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
Calvinism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Ernest Hemmingway
Realism
12. Well-known humorists.
Erica Jong
Thomas Jefferson
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
American Adam
13. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rhythm
Thomas Paine
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
14. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Racialism
Blank Verse
Narrative Poem
John Winthrop
15. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Rhythm
Anne Sexton
Booker T. Washington
16. (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
Cotton Mather
Wonders of the Invisible World
Robert Lowell
Thomas Morton
17. 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.
Langston Hughes
Verse
William S. Burroughs
Nativism
18. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Edith Wharton
Herman Melville
Anne Sexton
e.e cummings
19. She holds a unique place in American history as both the wife of one president and the mother of another. In her own right - she was an ardent American patriot. Her perseverance during the American Revolution kept her family together and enabled her
Carl Sandburg
Aphorisms
Abigail Adams
William S. Burroughs
20. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Racialism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edith Wharton
Thomas Morton
21. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Atavism
Loss of Traditional Values
Frederick Douglass
22. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Nietzscheism
Mayflower Compact
Robert Lowell
Booker T. Washington
23. Book of feline poems - 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats -' formed the basis of the Broadway hit 'Cats.' Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Published 'The Waste-Land' which became the most famous poem of the first half of the 20th Centur
Thomas Morton
Lyric Poem
T.S Eliot
Toni Morrison
24. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Sylvia Plath
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Narrative Poem
Zora Neal Hurston
25. 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
Stanza
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
John Adams
26. 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.
Kate Chopin
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Bret Harte
Poetry
27. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
James Weldon Johnson
The Day of Doom
William S. Burroughs
Emile Zola
28. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Iambic Pentameter
Zora Neal Hurston
Polemic
Lyres
29. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Realism
Thomas Jefferson
T.S Eliot
William Faulkner
30. 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.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Langston Hughes
31. 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.
Washington Irving
William S. Burroughs
Foot
e.e cummings
32. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Ralph Ellison
Sylvia Plath
Benjamin Franklin
33. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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34. 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.
Ezra Pound
Edgar Allen Poe
Dorthy Parker
Bret Harte
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'
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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Allen Ginsberg
T.S Eliot
36. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
James Weldon Johnson
Ballad
Sarah Orne Jewett
Cotton Mather
37. All events follow natural laws.
Atavism
Scan
Puritan Poetry
Determinism
38. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Transcendental Club
Jack London
Foot
Racialism
39. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Abigail Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Foot
The Declaration of Independence
40. Key intellectual and philosophical voice of 19th-century America. Key player in the transcendentalist movement. First to define what made American poetry American - it is verse that celebrates ordinary experience rather than the epic themes of the pa
Kate Chopin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Sewall
Norman Mailer
41. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Frank Norris
John Adams
Jack Kerouac
Beat Movement
42. 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.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Bret Harte
Transcendental Club
Jack Kerouac
43. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
American Adam
William Bradford
Transcendental Club
Phillip Roth
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
Iambic Pentameter
Edgar Allen Poe
Atavism
Social Darwinism
45. 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
Lyres
Langston Hughes
Edith Wharton
Booker T. Washington
46. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Benjamin Franklin
Modernism
Darwinism
Henry James
47. 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.
Polemic
Phillip Roth
Emile Zola
Zora Neal Hurston
48. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Jean Toomer
Nietzscheism
Carl Sandburg
Ballad
49. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Saul Bellow
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Scientism
Langston Hughes
50. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Rhythm
Scientism
John Smith
James Weldon Johnson