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CLEP American Literature
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1. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
J.D Salinger
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Bret Harte
John Smith
2. 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
Scientism
James Fenimore Cooper
Epic Story
T.S Eliot
3. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Epic Story
Anne Sexton
Henry David Thoreau
John Adams
4. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Henry James
Iambic Pentameter
Allen Ginsberg
Allegory
5. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Loaded Words
Polemic
Calvinism
Edwin Arlington Robinson
6. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Lyres
Robert Frost
Poetry
Saul Bellow
7. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Jonathan Edwards
Social Darwinism
Jean Toomer
T.S Eliot
8. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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9. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ballad
Genteel Tradition
Emily Dickinson
10. 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
Beat Writers
Frederick Douglass
Determinism
11. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Transcendentalism
John Adams
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Frost
12. 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.
Jack London
Nativism
Beat Movement
Darwinism
13. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Benjamin Franklin
Richard Wright
James Weldon Johnson
Jonathan Edwards
14. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
William Byrd
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Nietzscheism
Lyres
15. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Jean Toomer
Ballad
Epic Story
Genteel Tradition
16. 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
Three main colonial era poets
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Langston Hughes
Willa Cather
17. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Lyres
Ernest Hemmingway
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Persona
18. 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.
Epic Story
W.E.B Du Bois
Henry James
e.e cummings
19. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Henry David Thoreau
Broadside
Ralph Ellison
20. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Edith Wharton
Jack Kerouac
Richard Wright
The 3 primary literary genres
21. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Anne Sexton
Jack Kerouac
Willa Cather
Emile Zola
22. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin
Zora Neal Hurston
23. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Edward Teller
Stephen Crane
Scientism
Ernest Hemmingway
24. 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
Thomas Jefferson
Modernism
Foot
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
25. 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.
Epic Story
Flannery O'Connor
Thomas Morton
Sarah Orne Jewett
26. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
The Declaration of Independence
James Weldon Johnson
Zora Neal Hurston
Rhythm
27. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Cotton Mather
Nietzscheism
W.E.B Du Bois
Anne Sexton
28. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Modernism
Genteel Tradition
Wonders of the Invisible World
Allen Ginsberg
29. 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'
Claude McKay
William S. Burroughs
Wonders of the Invisible World
Edward Teller
30. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Rhyme
Jack Kerouac
Monologue
John Winthrop
31. Chicago School - Wrote 'Lucinda Matlock' - Created 'Spoon River Anthology' - Spoon River poems are characterized by: An unpoetic - colloquial style - frank descriptions of sex - a very critical view of small town life - and a description of he inner
Edgar Lee Masters
Beat Writers
Realism
Blank Verse
32. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Vachel Lindsay
Frank Norris
Sonnet
Cotton Mather
33. 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.
Anne Sexton
The Day of Doom
Flannery O'Connor
William Faulkner
34. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Broadside
Atavism
Frank Norris
Lyres
35. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Saul Bellow
Beat Movement
Naturalism
Blank Verse
36. Well-known humorists.
Robert Lowell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Refrain
37. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Free Verse
e.e cummings
Social Darwinism
Robert Lowell
38. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
W.E.B Du Bois
Rhythm
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
39. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Blank Verse
William Byrd
Willa Cather
John Steinbeck
40. '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
Ernest Hemmingway
Rhythm
Melting Pot
Stephen Crane
41. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Flannery O'Connor
Nietzscheism
Emile Zola
42. 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
James Thurbur
Transcendentalism
Ballad
Edward Teller
43. 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
Rhyme Scheme
Benjamin Franklin
Bret Harte
Walt Whitman
44. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Washington Irving
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Alice Walker
James Thurbur
45. 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.
Cotton Mather
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Vachel Lindsay
Poetry
46. 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
Dorthy Parker
Cotton Mather
Langston Hughes
Edith Wharton
47. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Narrative Poem
Verse
Romanticism
Nativism
48. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Washington Irving
Beat Writers
James Thurbur
Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. 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.
Frank Norris
John Steinbeck
James Baldwin
Transcendentalism
50. 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
Poetry
Loaded Words
Edgar Lee Masters
Thomas Paine
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