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CLEP American Literature
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1. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Robert Lowell
Persona
Blank Verse
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Allegory
Poetry
Broadside
John Smith
3. Clever - memorable sayings.
Sylvia Plath
Aphorisms
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Edgar Allen Poe
4. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Ralph Ellison
John Smith
Norman Mailer
Persona
5. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Stanza
Jack London
Bret Harte
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
6. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Henry David Thoreau
Emile Zola
T.S Eliot
Thomas Jefferson
7. All events follow natural laws.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Determinism
Countee Cullen
Booker T. Washington
8. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
James Thurbur
John Adams
Countee Cullen
e.e cummings
9. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Kate Chopin
Countee Cullen
William Byrd
Free Verse
10. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Free Verse
Anne Sexton
W.E.B Du Bois
Emile Zola
11. 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.
Loaded Words
e.e cummings
John Adams
Poetry
12. (Colonial Period) 1. God is King and Ruler. 2. Our duty in this world is to see that God's will prevails.3. Man is depraved from birth. 4. Few will be saved. Damned are damned despite their best efforts. Belief in Covenant Theology : God's covenant w
William Faulkner
Calvinism
Mayflower Compact
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
13. (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
Thomas Morton
Transcendentalism
Refrain
William Faulkner
14. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Saul Bellow
Mayflower Compact
Darwinism
Wonders of the Invisible World
15. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Frederick Douglass
Ernest Hemmingway
Robert Frost
Robert Lowell
16. 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
Naturalism
Bret Harte
Toni Morrison
Transcendentalism
17. 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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jack London
The Day of Doom
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
18. Wrote 'The Red Badge of Courage' and 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets -' and 'The Open Boat.' Red Badge of Courage is considered the first modern war novel. Work is celebrated for its images and symbolism. Work is often described as impressionist due t
Beat Writers
Stephen Crane
Atavism
Edwin Arlington Robinson
19. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Loss of Traditional Values
Drama
Meter
Beat Writers
20. 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 James
Bret Harte
Monologue
Emile Zola
21. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
William S. Burroughs
Stanza
Persona
22. 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
Thomas Morton
Blank Verse
Walt Whitman
Sylvia Plath
23. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Cotton Mather
Willa Cather
Herman Melville
James Thurbur
24. 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.
Atavism
Nativism
John Smith
Rhyme Scheme
25. Characterized by: Ordinary Language - Free Verse - Concentrated Word Pictures - Very specific words and phrases - Advanced by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell; also utilized by Robert Frost
Allen Ginsberg
Imagist Poetry
Social Darwinism
Emile Zola
26. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Erica Jong
Beat Movement
Frederick Douglass
F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Lyres
Jonathan Edwards
Refrain
28. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Genteel Tradition
T.S Eliot
29. 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
Beat Movement
Modernism
Free Verse
30. 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
Lyres
Mayflower Compact
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nietzscheism
31. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
William Byrd
Rhyme Scheme
Carl Sandburg
Wonders of the Invisible World
32. 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
Claude McKay
Lyric Poem
James Weldon Johnson
Transcendental Club
33. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Herman Melville
Ezra Pound
Toni Morrison
American Adam
34. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lyric Poem
Abigail Adams
Claude McKay
35. 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
Emily Dickinson
T.S Eliot
Stanza
Emile Zola
36. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Jack Kerouac
Sonnet
Realism
Maya Angelou
37. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Meter
Loaded Words
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
38. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Vachel Lindsay
Walt Whitman
Transcendentalism
J.D Salinger
39. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Darwinism
Robert Lowell
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wonders of the Invisible World
40. 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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Puritan Poetry
e.e cummings
Emily Dickinson
41. 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'
Thomas Jefferson
William S. Burroughs
Narrative Poem
Edgar Lee Masters
42. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Atavism
Stanza
Benjamin Franklin
Richard Wright
43. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Rhyme Scheme
e.e cummings
Blank Verse
Allen Ginsberg
44. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Maya Angelou
Robert Lowell
John Adams
Langston Hughes
45. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frank Norris
Ballad
Foot
46. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Loss of Traditional Values
Benjamin Franklin
Scientism
Claude McKay
47. 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
Ezra Pound
Maya Angelou
Jack London
Emily Dickinson
48. 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
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Benjamin Franklin
49. 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
Naturalism
Social Darwinism
Robert Frost
50. (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
William Bradford
Cotton Mather
John Smith
Meter
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