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CLEP American Literature
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1. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Robert Frost
Benjamin Franklin
Gwendolyn Brooks
J.D Salinger
2. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
James Fenimore Cooper
John Smith
The Day of Doom
Scientism
3. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
American Adam
Langston Hughes
Sarah Orne Jewett
Iambic Pentameter
4. 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.
Loss of Traditional Values
Ralph Ellison
e.e cummings
Edgar Allen Poe
5. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Samuel Sewall
Washington Irving
William Bradford
William Byrd
6. 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
Transcendental Club
Allegory
Nietzscheism
Edith Wharton
7. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Drama
Darwinism
Broadside
T.S Eliot
8. 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.
The Day of Doom
Iambic Pentameter
Sarah Orne Jewett
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
9. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Countee Cullen
Loss of Traditional Values
Thomas Paine
Jonathan Edwards
10. Father of American Literature - First American writer to achieve an international reputation. Rip Van Winkle (antihero). Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Devil and Tom Walker. Was 50 years old before his real name appeared on any of his books. Used alias
Scientism
Washington Irving
Herman Melville
John Winthrop
11. (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
Naturalism
Norman Mailer
Jonathan Edwards
W.E.B Du Bois
12. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
The Day of Doom
James Weldon Johnson
Edward Teller
Allen Ginsberg
13. 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
Robert Frost
Frank Norris
Wonders of the Invisible World
14. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
James Thurbur
Poetry
Puritan Poetry
Vachel Lindsay
15. 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.
Nativism
Epic Story
James Baldwin
John Steinbeck
16. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
e.e cummings
Thomas Morton
Saul Bellow
Genteel Tradition
17. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Robert Lowell
Booker T. Washington
Beat Writers
Romanticism
18. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Drama
Jean Toomer
Booker T. Washington
James Baldwin
19. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Ballad
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jack London
Norman Mailer
20. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Gwendolyn Brooks
John Winthrop
Foot
Drama
21. 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'
William Bradford
Emily Dickinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Allen Ginsberg
22. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Richard Wright
Romanticism
Genteel Tradition
23. 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.
Mayflower Compact
Free Verse
Meter
John Smith
24. 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.
Lyric Poem
Calvinism
William Faulkner
Robert Lowell
25. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Countee Cullen
Sonnet
Persona
Langston Hughes
26. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Naturalism
Sylvia Plath
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Edith Wharton
27. Use of medieval - wild - or mysterious elements in literature. Features gloomy settings and horrifying events. Edgar Allen Poe is regarded as the American Master of Gothic writing.
Determinism
Scientism
Puritan Poetry
Gothic
28. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Jack London
Willa Cather
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Ernest Hemmingway
29. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
The Day of Doom
James Thurbur
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mary Wilkins Freeman
30. 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
J.D Salinger
Ezra Pound
Broadside
Henry David Thoreau
31. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Free Verse
Drama
Ralph Ellison
Abigail Adams
32. Applying the evolutionary 'survival of the fittest' concept to a world marked by struggle and competition. (Promulgated by Herbert Spencer - a best-selling sociologist of the late 19th Century.
Samuel Sewall
William S. Burroughs
Ralph Ellison
Social Darwinism
33. 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
Refrain
Walt Whitman
Naturalism
Allegory
34. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Epic Story
Modernism
Broadside
Abigail Adams
35. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Jack London
Imagist Poetry
Calvinism
Loaded Words
36. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Puritan Poetry
The Declaration of Independence
Ralph Ellison
Samuel Sewall
37. 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
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Abigail Adams
Anne Sexton
F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Scientism
William Faulkner
Prose
39. 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
Langston Hughes
Theodore Dreiser
Verse
Stephen Crane
40. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Frederick Douglass
T.S Eliot
Sarah Orne Jewett
Nietzscheism
41. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Three main colonial era poets
Genteel Tradition
Rhyme
Iambic Pentameter
42. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Melting Pot
Lyric Poem
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Scan
43. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Norman Mailer
Epic Story
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Jack Kerouac
44. A stanza.
Iambic Pentameter
Erica Jong
Verse
Flannery O'Connor
45. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Meter
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Booker T. Washington
Emily Dickinson
46. Literary movement of the 19th century Presented the details of ordinary life in art. Realists rejected the heroic and adventurous and concentrated on pessimistic views of poverty - prostitution and pain. Reaction to Romanticism.
Realism
Jean Toomer
The 3 primary literary genres
Emily Dickinson
47. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Thomas Paine
Melting Pot
Benjamin Franklin
Zora Neal Hurston
48. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Monologue
Edith Wharton
Determinism
Rhyme Scheme
49. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Gwendolyn Brooks
Prose
Stanza
Nietzscheism
50. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Claude McKay
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Sonnet
Richard Wright
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