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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Modernism
John Winthrop
Edgar Allen Poe
2. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Lyres
Verse
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Samuel Sewall
3. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Richard Wright
Nietzscheism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Abigail Adams
4. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
John Adams
Mayflower Compact
Henry David Thoreau
Refrain
5. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Refrain
Calvinism
Beat Writers
Thomas Morton
6. 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.
Edith Wharton
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dorthy Parker
John Steinbeck
7. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Gothic
Ernest Hemmingway
The 3 primary literary genres
Social Darwinism
8. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Aphorisms
American Adam
Lyres
William Bradford
9. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
W.E.B Du Bois
Norman Mailer
Langston Hughes
10. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Claude McKay
Edith Wharton
Washington Irving
Loss of Traditional Values
11. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Booker T. Washington
Robert Lowell
Broadside
12. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Racialism
Drama
Melting Pot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
13. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Romanticism
Polemic
Meter
Stanza
14. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
James Fenimore Cooper
Beat Movement
Realism
Thomas Jefferson
15. 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
Richard Wright
Naturalism
Loaded Words
Refrain
16. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Jean Toomer
Richard Wright
Nativism
Booker T. Washington
17. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Saul Bellow
Foot
Lyres
Booker T. Washington
18. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Benjamin Franklin
Washington Irving
James Thurbur
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
19. Wrote 'Songs of Jamaica' - Poetry and 'Harlem Shadows' (first great literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance. Much of his poetry evokes the rich heritage of Jamaica.
Thomas Paine
Claude McKay
Calvinism
Allegory
20. 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
Carl Sandburg
Erica Jong
Melting Pot
Beat Writers
21. 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.
Rhyme
Zora Neal Hurston
Willa Cather
Sylvia Plath
22. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Herman Melville
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Romanticism
23. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Nativism
The Day of Doom
Lyres
Allen Ginsberg
24. 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
Refrain
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Meter
25. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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26. 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
William Byrd
Frederick Douglass
James Fenimore Cooper
Broadside
27. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Vachel Lindsay
Edgar Allen Poe
Countee Cullen
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
28. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Alice Walker
Verse
Jack Kerouac
Monologue
29. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Dorthy Parker
Alice Walker
Edgar Allen Poe
Free Verse
30. 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.
James Weldon Johnson
Edgar Allen Poe
Gothic
James Thurbur
31. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
William Faulkner
Imagist Poetry
Darwinism
32. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Transcendental Club
Aphorisms
Thomas Jefferson
Sylvia Plath
33. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Stanza
Allegory
Richard Wright
Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Carl Sandburg
Richard Wright
Allegory
Epic Story
35. 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
Poetry
Polemic
Naturalism
Edith Wharton
36. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Thomas Paine
Narrative Poem
Rhythm
Gwendolyn Brooks
37. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Racialism
Ralph Ellison
Zora Neal Hurston
W.E.B Du Bois
38. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Genteel Tradition
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
39. 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
Scan
Darwinism
Frederick Douglass
Thomas Paine
40. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Edgar Allen Poe
Free Verse
Walt Whitman
Thomas Jefferson
41. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Edgar Lee Masters
Free Verse
Norman Mailer
Aphorisms
42. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Emile Zola
Samuel Sewall
J.D Salinger
Rhyme
43. (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
Thomas Jefferson
John Steinbeck
Herman Melville
William Bradford
44. 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
Scientism
Henry David Thoreau
Nietzscheism
T.S Eliot
45. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Toni Morrison
James Baldwin
Ezra Pound
Bret Harte
46. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Allen Ginsberg
Genteel Tradition
William Faulkner
Walt Whitman
47. Well-known humorists.
Iambic Pentameter
Emily Dickinson
Ballad
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
48. 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
The Declaration of Independence
Norman Mailer
James Baldwin
49. 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.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Mayflower Compact
John Smith
Gwendolyn Brooks
50. (Colonial Period) Began 'The History of New England' aboard the Arbella in 1630. Lead 2 -000 English emigrant to Massachusetts Bay. Made daily journal-style entries until his death. Intended it to be an account of his long governorship. Style is pla
Blank Verse
John Winthrop
Robert Lowell
Washington Irving
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