SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP American Literature
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
The 3 primary literary genres
Genteel Tradition
Persona
Romanticism
2. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Three main colonial era poets
Realism
Allen Ginsberg
Mary Wilkins Freeman
3. (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
Theodore Dreiser
Verse
Thomas Morton
Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Gwendolyn Brooks
Kate Chopin
Melting Pot
Maya Angelou
5. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Realism
Stephen Crane
6. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Nativism
Flannery O'Connor
Puritan Poetry
Wonders of the Invisible World
7. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Darwinism
Poetry
Richard Wright
Ballad
8. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Edith Wharton
Beat Writers
T.S Eliot
9. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allen Poe
Bret Harte
James Baldwin
10. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Romanticism
Theodore Dreiser
Norman Mailer
Modernism
11. 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
Naturalism
Booker T. Washington
Carl Sandburg
Saul Bellow
12. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Three main colonial era poets
Ballad
Imagist Poetry
Modernism
13. 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
Free Verse
Anne Sexton
Stanza
14. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Frank Norris
Romanticism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Henry David Thoreau
Maya Angelou
W.E.B Du Bois
Iambic Pentameter
16. 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
Cotton Mather
Darwinism
Frederick Douglass
17. 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.
Narrative Poem
Nativism
Ezra Pound
Booker T. Washington
18. 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
Kate Chopin
James Fenimore Cooper
William Faulkner
Wonders of the Invisible World
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
Jack Kerouac
Alice Walker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saul Bellow
20. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Edgar Allen Poe
Gothic
Scientism
Thomas Jefferson
21. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Robert Lowell
Genteel Tradition
Countee Cullen
John Steinbeck
22. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Lyres
Allen Ginsberg
Erica Jong
James Baldwin
23. 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
Loaded Words
Darwinism
Transcendental Club
Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Alice Walker
Monologue
Robert Frost
Three main colonial era poets
25. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
William Bradford
Claude McKay
Beat Writers
Benjamin Franklin
26. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Scan
Emile Zola
John Steinbeck
27. 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
Transcendentalism
Rhyme
Henry David Thoreau
Atavism
28. (Colonial Period) One of colonial New England's most eminent clergyman. Greatest achievement was as an historian of the Puritan experience. 'Diary of Cotton Mather' - Account of Mather wrestling with sexual temptation to marry a much younger women di
Norman Mailer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cotton Mather
William Faulkner
29. 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.
Stephen Crane
Puritan Poetry
Foot
John Steinbeck
30. 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.
The Declaration of Independence
Three main colonial era poets
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
William Faulkner
31. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Phillip Roth
Richard Wright
Frank Norris
Stanza
32. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Richard Wright
Dorthy Parker
Vachel Lindsay
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
33. 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
John Winthrop
Langston Hughes
Abigail Adams
John Smith
34. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Meter
John Adams
35. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Booker T. Washington
John Steinbeck
Allen Ginsberg
Melting Pot
36. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Aphorisms
Stanza
Walt Whitman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
37. 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.
Transcendental Club
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Social Darwinism
John Steinbeck
38. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Beat Movement
Frederick Douglass
Jack Kerouac
Dorthy Parker
39. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
40. 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
Social Darwinism
Monologue
Maya Angelou
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
41. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Monologue
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Allen Ginsberg
Abigail Adams
42. (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
Robert Lowell
Verse
Drama
43. 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.
Richard Wright
Sarah Orne Jewett
Dorthy Parker
Prose
44. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Beat Movement
Saul Bellow
Ezra Pound
The Day of Doom
45. 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.
Realism
Puritan Poetry
Calvinism
Thomas Morton
46. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Persona
W.E.B Du Bois
Poetry
Nietzscheism
47. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
J.D Salinger
Edgar Lee Masters
Epic Story
Three main colonial era poets
48. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Willa Cather
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Allegory
Dorthy Parker
49. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Lyric Poem
William Byrd
Beat Writers
Alice Walker
50. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert Frost
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Edith Wharton