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CLEP American Literature
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1. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Zora Neal Hurston
Loss of Traditional Values
Wonders of the Invisible World
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
2. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Nativism
Rhyme
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Refrain
3. 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.
Claude McKay
Nativism
Beat Writers
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
4. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
W.E.B Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Anne Sexton
5. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Emile Zola
Edith Wharton
Samuel Sewall
Atavism
6. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Scientism
Claude McKay
Persona
John Smith
7. 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
Edward Teller
Thomas Jefferson
Persona
James Fenimore Cooper
8. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Beat Movement
Edgar Allen Poe
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Saul Bellow
9. The Bard of Harlem; most successful black writer in America during the Harlem Renaissance. Wanted to capture the dominant oral traditions of black culture in written form. Best known for his poetry: 'The Weary Blues -' 'Fields of Wonder -' and 'The D
Wonders of the Invisible World
Allen Ginsberg
Langston Hughes
Dorthy Parker
10. (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
Walt Whitman
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Cotton Mather
Frederick Douglass
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
Carl Sandburg
Jack Kerouac
Dorthy Parker
Stephen Crane
12. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Atavism
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wonders of the Invisible World
Beat Movement
13. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Nativism
Transcendental Club
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Genteel Tradition
14. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Three main colonial era poets
Ralph Ellison
John Adams
15. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Sarah Orne Jewett
James Baldwin
Gwendolyn Brooks
Henry James
16. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
James Weldon Johnson
Jack London
Maya Angelou
Aphorisms
17. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Edgar Lee Masters
William Byrd
Phillip Roth
John Adams
18. 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.
Modernism
Bret Harte
Norman Mailer
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
19. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
James Thurbur
Robert Frost
Frank Norris
Racialism
20. 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
Kate Chopin
Henry David Thoreau
William Byrd
John Adams
21. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Richard Wright
Emile Zola
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Blank Verse
22. (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
Nietzscheism
Ralph Ellison
Edgar Allen Poe
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
Herman Melville
Beat Movement
Cotton Mather
Transcendental Club
24. 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'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stephen Crane
Transcendental Club
William S. Burroughs
25. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Rhythm
Gothic
Atavism
26. 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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
William Faulkner
Toni Morrison
Edwin Arlington Robinson
27. 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.
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
T.S Eliot
Claude McKay
Zora Neal Hurston
28. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
John Winthrop
Loaded Words
Rhyme Scheme
29. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Frederick Douglass
Thomas Paine
John Steinbeck
Nietzscheism
30. First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Novel focus on black cultural identity in contemporary America. Wrote 'The Bluest Eye -' 'Tar Baby -' and 'Beloved'
The 3 primary literary genres
The Declaration of Independence
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Toni Morrison
31. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Benjamin Franklin
Willa Cather
Scientism
Countee Cullen
32. 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
Abigail Adams
Lyres
Sonnet
William S. Burroughs
33. 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
Nativism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Baldwin
34. (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
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Puritan Poetry
Rhythm
35. 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.
Alice Walker
Realism
Norman Mailer
Willa Cather
36. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Prose
Jonathan Edwards
James Baldwin
Herman Melville
37. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Edgar Lee Masters
John Steinbeck
Theodore Dreiser
Samuel Sewall
38. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Gothic
Edward Teller
Puritan Poetry
Henry David Thoreau
39. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Stanza
James Weldon Johnson
Jack London
Ezra Pound
40. 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
Edith Wharton
Stephen Crane
Thomas Paine
Drama
41. 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.
Rhyme
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Samuel Sewall
Norman Mailer
42. 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.
Drama
John Steinbeck
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Loaded Words
43. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Loaded Words
Meter
Allegory
Persona
44. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Poetry
Meter
Flannery O'Connor
Melting Pot
45. Well-known humorists.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Maya Angelou
Mayflower Compact
Nietzscheism
46. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Meter
Robert Frost
Sonnet
Edward Teller
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
Nietzscheism
Langston Hughes
Naturalism
Carl Sandburg
48. (Colonial Period) One of the most brilliant of American thinkers. Theologian and philosopher; vigorous defender of Calvinistic orthodoxy at the end of the Puritan era. Influenced major nineteenth century writers such as Emerson - Hawthorne - Melville
Free Verse
Iambic Pentameter
Carl Sandburg
Jonathan Edwards
49. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Naturalism
Washington Irving
The Declaration of Independence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
50. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Thomas Jefferson
Cotton Mather
Iambic Pentameter
Narrative Poem
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