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CLEP American Literature
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1. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Broadside
Ballad
Scan
Rhyme
2. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Naturalism
John Adams
The Declaration of Independence
3. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Maya Angelou
Countee Cullen
Iambic Pentameter
Narrative Poem
4. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Gothic
Social Darwinism
Scientism
Harriet Beecher Stowe
5. All events follow natural laws.
Frank Norris
Beat Writers
Epic Story
Determinism
6. 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
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Sarah Orne Jewett
Emily Dickinson
Abigail Adams
7. Typically referred to as the greatest American novelist (next to Mark Twain) of the second half of the 19th century. Main theme of his work was the innocence and exuberance of America compared to the corruption and wisdom of Europe. Wrote 'The Portra
Loaded Words
Henry James
Emile Zola
Refrain
8. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
J.D Salinger
Three main colonial era poets
Determinism
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
9. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Robert Lowell
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Samuel Sewall
Bret Harte
10. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Broadside
James Weldon Johnson
Vachel Lindsay
Edwin Arlington Robinson
11. 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
Racialism
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Emile Zola
12. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Ernest Hemmingway
Booker T. Washington
Iambic Pentameter
Scientism
13. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Three main colonial era poets
Beat Writers
Genteel Tradition
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
14. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
The Day of Doom
Robert Lowell
Stanza
Emile Zola
15. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Jonathan Edwards
Foot
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ballad
16. 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
Anne Sexton
Imagist Poetry
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Samuel Sewall
17. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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18. 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
Erica Jong
Broadside
Loaded Words
19. 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'
Realism
Rhyme
William S. Burroughs
T.S Eliot
20. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Norman Mailer
Willa Cather
John Smith
Samuel Sewall
21. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Herman Melville
Aphorisms
Vachel Lindsay
Atavism
22. A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's - in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature - and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter - intuiti
Three main colonial era poets
Bret Harte
Narrative Poem
Transcendentalism
23. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Rhyme
American Adam
W.E.B Du Bois
Washington Irving
24. 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
Epic Story
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Verse
25. 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.
Henry James
Saul Bellow
Nativism
James Weldon Johnson
26. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Determinism
Stanza
Nativism
27. 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'
Toni Morrison
Stanza
Zora Neal Hurston
Walt Whitman
28. Written by Michael Wigglesworth - the most famous poem of 17th Century - proceeds from judgement day to hell and then to paradise. First American Best Seller.
Transcendentalism
The Day of Doom
Washington Irving
Imagist Poetry
29. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Loss of Traditional Values
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nietzscheism
Nativism
30. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
Romanticism
John Winthrop
T.S Eliot
31. 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
Walt Whitman
Gothic
Epic Story
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
Transcendental Club
Mayflower Compact
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Modernism
33. 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
Epic Story
Countee Cullen
Aphorisms
Ezra Pound
34. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Toni Morrison
Norman Mailer
Beat Writers
e.e cummings
35. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Iambic Pentameter
Genteel Tradition
Beat Movement
36. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
J.D Salinger
Rhyme Scheme
John Smith
Zora Neal Hurston
37. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Naturalism
Phillip Roth
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
38. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Beat Movement
Benjamin Franklin
Genteel Tradition
Kate Chopin
39. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Bret Harte
Beat Movement
Aphorisms
Gwendolyn Brooks
40. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Dorthy Parker
Ralph Ellison
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Jack London
41. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Maya Angelou
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Transcendentalism
Lyres
42. Clever - memorable sayings.
Lyres
Aphorisms
Edith Wharton
James Weldon Johnson
43. 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
Scan
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Persona
Bret Harte
44. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stephen Crane
Jack London
Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. 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
Robert Lowell
Abigail Adams
Lyric Poem
James Weldon Johnson
46. 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.
Rhyme Scheme
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Broadside
Sarah Orne Jewett
47. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Richard Wright
Thomas Morton
Cotton Mather
Genteel Tradition
48. 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
Langston Hughes
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ezra Pound
Free Verse
49. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Darwinism
Melting Pot
Allegory
John Adams
50. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Allen Ginsberg
Drama
Robert Lowell
Nativism
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