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CLEP American Literature
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1. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Nietzscheism
Toni Morrison
Lyric Poem
Saul Bellow
2. 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'
Rhyme
William S. Burroughs
Walt Whitman
James Weldon Johnson
3. 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
John Adams
Edith Wharton
Alice Walker
Sarah Orne Jewett
4. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Toni Morrison
Blank Verse
Determinism
Ralph Ellison
5. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Ralph Ellison
Kate Chopin
Scan
Modernism
6. 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
Langston Hughes
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Allegory
Foot
7. 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.
Frank Norris
William Bradford
Gothic
Determinism
8. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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9. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
e.e cummings
Monologue
Vachel Lindsay
Aphorisms
10. 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.
Claude McKay
Prose
Dorthy Parker
Stanza
11. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theodore Dreiser
James Fenimore Cooper
Edgar Allen Poe
12. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Foot
Jack London
Frederick Douglass
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
13. 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
Foot
Booker T. Washington
Allegory
14. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Booker T. Washington
Phillip Roth
Foot
Loaded Words
15. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Gwendolyn Brooks
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
William S. Burroughs
Persona
16. 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.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Zora Neal Hurston
Drama
Refrain
17. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Saul Bellow
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Beat Movement
18. 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.
Robert Lowell
Alice Walker
Richard Wright
Sarah Orne Jewett
19. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Racialism
Jonathan Edwards
Atavism
Verse
20. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Washington Irving
Polemic
Stanza
21. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Frank Norris
Jonathan Edwards
John Steinbeck
Loaded Words
22. 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.
Flannery O'Connor
Refrain
The Day of Doom
T.S Eliot
23. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
Robert Frost
The Declaration of Independence
Emily Dickinson
24. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Langston Hughes
Robert Lowell
Theodore Dreiser
Frank Norris
25. 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.
Realism
Theodore Dreiser
Thomas Paine
Harriet Beecher Stowe
26. A stanza.
Verse
Samuel Sewall
Calvinism
Frank Norris
27. 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.
Iambic Pentameter
The Declaration of Independence
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Transcendental Club
28. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Edward Teller
Jack Kerouac
Henry David Thoreau
29. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
James Weldon Johnson
Dorthy Parker
The Declaration of Independence
Allegory
30. 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'
Scan
William Bradford
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Edwin Arlington Robinson
31. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
W.E.B Du Bois
Thomas Morton
Dorthy Parker
Blank Verse
32. '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
Jean Toomer
Lyres
Norman Mailer
33. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Thomas Jefferson
John Steinbeck
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
John Adams
34. The reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some distant ancestor that have not been present in intervening generations - such as hand like a hairy paw.
Zora Neal Hurston
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Frederick Douglass
Atavism
35. 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
Alice Walker
Epic Story
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
36. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Nietzscheism
The 3 primary literary genres
Narrative Poem
Lyres
37. 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
Atavism
Henry James
Jack London
Racialism
38. 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
Transcendental Club
Atavism
Ezra Pound
Frederick Douglass
39. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Poetry
e.e cummings
Claude McKay
Alice Walker
40. 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.
Nativism
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Langston Hughes
Poetry
41. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Bret Harte
James Thurbur
Narrative Poem
Cotton Mather
42. 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
Ballad
John Steinbeck
American Adam
Abigail Adams
43. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Anne Sexton
Toni Morrison
Willa Cather
Zora Neal Hurston
44. (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
Erica Jong
William Bradford
The 3 primary literary genres
Loaded Words
45. 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
Stanza
Imagist Poetry
Bret Harte
Norman Mailer
46. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Romanticism
Emile Zola
Henry James
47. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Determinism
Loss of Traditional Values
Vachel Lindsay
Polemic
48. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Lyres
Carl Sandburg
Rhythm
e.e cummings
49. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Darwinism
James Weldon Johnson
50. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
James Thurbur
Erica Jong
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Morton
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