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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Thomas Morton
Aphorisms
Allen Ginsberg
Thomas Paine
2. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Polemic
Frederick Douglass
Beat Movement
Edwin Arlington Robinson
3. 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
John Steinbeck
Emily Dickinson
Thomas Jefferson
Transcendental Club
4. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Thomas Jefferson
Emile Zola
American Adam
Ralph Ellison
5. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Nietzscheism
Free Verse
Robert Frost
Verse
6. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Maya Angelou
Cotton Mather
Sonnet
Vachel Lindsay
7. 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
William S. Burroughs
Emily Dickinson
Abigail Adams
Narrative Poem
8. 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.
William Faulkner
Rhyme
Sylvia Plath
Samuel Sewall
9. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Claude McKay
Beat Movement
Jean Toomer
Edward Teller
10. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Ezra Pound
Willa Cather
Refrain
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
11. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Nietzscheism
Maya Angelou
Bret Harte
Gothic
12. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Ernest Hemmingway
James Baldwin
Rhythm
Benjamin Franklin
13. 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'
Darwinism
Transcendental Club
William S. Burroughs
Theodore Dreiser
14. A stanza.
The 3 primary literary genres
John Winthrop
Verse
Puritan Poetry
15. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Foot
Drama
Sarah Orne Jewett
Gwendolyn Brooks
16. 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
Robert Lowell
Dorthy Parker
Toni Morrison
17. Recluse - agoraphobic - Didn't title her poems. All are designated by numbers. Paved the way for the Imagist movement of the 1920s. Considered on of the founders of Modern American Poetry. Concrete imagery - forceful language - and unique style usher
Emily Dickinson
Norman Mailer
The Day of Doom
Broadside
18. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Monologue
Blank Verse
Mary Wilkins Freeman
19. 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
Gothic
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meter
Thomas Paine
20. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Bret Harte
Vachel Lindsay
Blank Verse
Nativism
21. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Booker T. Washington
Frank Norris
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Nathaniel Hawthorne
22. 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.
James Weldon Johnson
Vachel Lindsay
Atavism
J.D Salinger
23. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
J.D Salinger
Booker T. Washington
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Polemic
24. 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
Bret Harte
Claude McKay
Mayflower Compact
Atavism
25. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Flannery O'Connor
James Fenimore Cooper
Phillip Roth
Melting Pot
26. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Aphorisms
Naturalism
Free Verse
Scan
27. (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
W.E.B Du Bois
Jonathan Edwards
Sarah Orne Jewett
28. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Polemic
Mayflower Compact
Scan
Herman Melville
29. 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.
Jean Toomer
Gothic
Frank Norris
Edward Teller
30. 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.
Robert Frost
Gothic
Social Darwinism
Mayflower Compact
31. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Richard Wright
Persona
Vachel Lindsay
Racialism
32. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Ralph Ellison
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Poetry
Zora Neal Hurston
33. 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'
Gothic
Stanza
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Atavism
34. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Monologue
Ballad
Transcendentalism
Herman Melville
35. '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
Abigail Adams
Monologue
Verse
36. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Free Verse
Prose
Emily Dickinson
Alice Walker
37. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Abigail Adams
Gwendolyn Brooks
38. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry James
Loss of Traditional Values
Edgar Allen Poe
39. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Genteel Tradition
Modernism
Mayflower Compact
Samuel Sewall
40. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Monologue
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Loss of Traditional Values
Sonnet
41. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
John Winthrop
Social Darwinism
e.e cummings
Allegory
42. 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.
Realism
Melting Pot
Phillip Roth
e.e cummings
43. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Edgar Allen Poe
Meter
Lyres
Thomas Jefferson
44. 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
Free Verse
Abigail Adams
45. All events follow natural laws.
Theodore Dreiser
Determinism
Rhyme
Phillip Roth
46. 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
Thomas Paine
Carl Sandburg
Atavism
Robert Frost
47. 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
Puritan Poetry
W.E.B Du Bois
Monologue
Naturalism
48. 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
Kate Chopin
Meter
Herman Melville
Transcendental Club
49. 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.
Ralph Ellison
Claude McKay
Monologue
Harriet Beecher Stowe
50. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Alice Walker
Loaded Words
Henry James
Prose
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