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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Edgar Lee Masters
Anne Sexton
Blank Verse
2. 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.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Rhyme Scheme
Zora Neal Hurston
Gwendolyn Brooks
3. 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
Walt Whitman
William Faulkner
Edgar Allen Poe
Mayflower Compact
4. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Abigail Adams
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Carl Sandburg
5. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Henry David Thoreau
Poetry
Edward Teller
Foot
6. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Racialism
Cotton Mather
Prose
7. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Imagist Poetry
Stanza
Anne Sexton
William S. Burroughs
8. 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
Abigail Adams
Phillip Roth
Free Verse
9. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Persona
Scan
Maya Angelou
Thomas Paine
10. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Langston Hughes
Booker T. Washington
The Day of Doom
Mary Wilkins Freeman
11. 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
Washington Irving
Romanticism
Walt Whitman
Dorthy Parker
12. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Calvinism
Epic Story
Phillip Roth
Kate Chopin
13. A stanza.
Verse
Racialism
Abigail Adams
Blank Verse
14. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Loaded Words
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Scientism
Gothic
15. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Rhythm
Ralph Ellison
W.E.B Du Bois
Countee Cullen
16. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Rhythm
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Foot
Verse
17. 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.
Scan
Kate Chopin
Atavism
Genteel Tradition
18. 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.
Romanticism
Polemic
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
19. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
James Weldon Johnson
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allen Ginsberg
20. End : occurs when words at the ends of lines of poetry rhyme. Internal: occurs when words within a sentences share the same sound - such as 'Each narrow cell in which we dwell.'
Benjamin Franklin
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Erica Jong
Harriet Beecher Stowe
21. 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.
John Steinbeck
Iambic Pentameter
Rhyme
Broadside
22. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Toni Morrison
Modernism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Lowell
23. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Realism
Cotton Mather
Ralph Ellison
Wonders of the Invisible World
24. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Aphorisms
Carl Sandburg
The 3 primary literary genres
Jean Toomer
25. 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
Drama
Narrative Poem
James Fenimore Cooper
Edgar Lee Masters
26. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ballad
Monologue
W.E.B Du Bois
Thomas Morton
27. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
James Baldwin
Vachel Lindsay
Rhyme Scheme
Robert Frost
28. 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.
Three main colonial era poets
Sarah Orne Jewett
Claude McKay
Theodore Dreiser
29. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Thomas Jefferson
Anne Sexton
Allegory
William Byrd
30. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Determinism
Darwinism
Toni Morrison
Gothic
31. 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
Rhyme Scheme
Transcendental Club
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Poetry
32. 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.
Social Darwinism
Modernism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Erica Jong
33. Literary movement of the 19th century Presented the details of ordinary life in art. Realists rejected the heroic and adventurous and concentrated on pessimistic views of poverty - prostitution and pain. Reaction to Romanticism.
Richard Wright
Frank Norris
Anne Sexton
Realism
34. (Colonial Period) Stands in direct opposition to the principles - personalities and literary styles of William Bradford and John Winthrop. Did not come to settle the land and establish God's Kingdom - but to trade beaver pelts and live pleasantly. Es
Transcendental Club
Thomas Morton
Washington Irving
Wonders of the Invisible World
35. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Carl Sandburg
Monologue
Alice Walker
Frederick Douglass
36. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Willa Cather
Zora Neal Hurston
Transcendental Club
Erica Jong
37. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
James Baldwin
James Weldon Johnson
Monologue
Mary Wilkins Freeman
38. 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.
Anne Sexton
Mayflower Compact
The Day of Doom
Realism
39. 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
Mayflower Compact
Henry David Thoreau
Ezra Pound
Scientism
40. 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.
Lyric Poem
Theodore Dreiser
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Modernism
41. 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
Carl Sandburg
Bret Harte
William Faulkner
Herman Melville
42. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Broadside
Naturalism
Countee Cullen
Atavism
43. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Transcendentalism
Thomas Jefferson
Rhythm
Kate Chopin
44. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Sylvia Plath
Kate Chopin
Meter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. (Colonial Period) Primarily written to set forth orthodox Calvinist Christianity. Not considered the best representation of poetry during the whole period. Rarely approached excellence of English models. Too much of an emphasis on heavenly values and
Puritan Poetry
Loaded Words
W.E.B Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
46. 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.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
William Faulkner
Determinism
Claude McKay
47. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
James Fenimore Cooper
Theodore Dreiser
Toni Morrison
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
Persona
Foot
Loaded Words
Henry David Thoreau
49. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Broadside
Atavism
Darwinism
Frank Norris
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
Stanza
Loaded Words
Thomas Paine
Edward Teller
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