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CLEP American Literature
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1. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Abigail Adams
Foot
John Smith
Transcendentalism
2. 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
Saul Bellow
T.S Eliot
Zora Neal Hurston
Cotton Mather
3. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
William Faulkner
Ezra Pound
John Adams
Phillip Roth
4. 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.
Rhyme Scheme
Social Darwinism
Abigail Adams
Atavism
5. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Henry David Thoreau
Determinism
The 3 primary literary genres
Prose
6. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Samuel Sewall
Allegory
Jack London
Erica Jong
7. 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
Foot
The Day of Doom
Bret Harte
Lyric Poem
8. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Racialism
Ballad
John Winthrop
Walt Whitman
9. (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
Sonnet
Emile Zola
Jonathan Edwards
Modernism
10. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Ernest Hemmingway
Richard Wright
John Smith
Jean Toomer
11. 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
Robert Lowell
John Winthrop
Realism
12. An artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 18th Century and characterized by a heightened interest in nature - emphasis on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination - departure from the attitudes and forms of
Romanticism
Edith Wharton
Erica Jong
Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. 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
Dorthy Parker
Three main colonial era poets
Jean Toomer
Transcendentalism
14. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Genteel Tradition
Booker T. Washington
Narrative Poem
Blank Verse
15. 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
John Adams
James Baldwin
Langston Hughes
Melting Pot
16. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Genteel Tradition
Lyres
American Adam
Sylvia Plath
17. 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.
Claude McKay
Gwendolyn Brooks
John Steinbeck
Mayflower Compact
18. 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
Edith Wharton
Atavism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Norman Mailer
19. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Beat Movement
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Emile Zola
20. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Frank Norris
J.D Salinger
Emily Dickinson
Romanticism
21. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Calvinism
Nietzscheism
Narrative Poem
Thomas Paine
22. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
William Byrd
Scientism
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
23. 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
Washington Irving
Gwendolyn Brooks
Nietzscheism
Allen Ginsberg
24. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Richard Wright
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dorthy Parker
Toni Morrison
25. 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
Transcendental Club
Edith Wharton
Willa Cather
Rhyme Scheme
26. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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27. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Refrain
The Day of Doom
Robert Lowell
Gwendolyn Brooks
28. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
John Winthrop
Benjamin Franklin
Toni Morrison
Anne Sexton
29. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Edgar Allen Poe
J.D Salinger
Claude McKay
Atavism
30. 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'
Jonathan Edwards
Theodore Dreiser
Cotton Mather
William S. Burroughs
31. Well-known humorists.
Social Darwinism
Romanticism
James Baldwin
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
32. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Norman Mailer
Transcendentalism
Robert Lowell
Monologue
33. 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
Stanza
Rhyme Scheme
Henry James
Edgar Lee Masters
34. 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.
Saul Bellow
William Faulkner
Edith Wharton
Emily Dickinson
35. 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
Blank Verse
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Rhyme
36. 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.
Frank Norris
John Adams
Dorthy Parker
John Steinbeck
37. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Nativism
Edgar Allen Poe
Abigail Adams
Melting Pot
38. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Walt Whitman
e.e cummings
Rhyme Scheme
39. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Racialism
Beat Movement
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
40. 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.
e.e cummings
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Robert Lowell
Frederick Douglass
41. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Racialism
Polemic
Robert Lowell
Thomas Jefferson
42. (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
Booker T. Washington
John Winthrop
Thomas Paine
Ezra Pound
43. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Vachel Lindsay
Genteel Tradition
Allegory
Anne Sexton
44. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Gothic
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Rhyme
Thomas Paine
45. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Beat Writers
Booker T. Washington
Free Verse
Edward Teller
46. (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
William Bradford
Atavism
The Day of Doom
Modernism
47. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lyric Poem
Ernest Hemmingway
48. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Willa Cather
Social Darwinism
Loss of Traditional Values
49. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Blank Verse
Frank Norris
Rhyme
Epic Story
50. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Monologue
Willa Cather
Saul Bellow
James Weldon Johnson