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CLEP American Literature
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1. Clever - memorable sayings.
Washington Irving
Aphorisms
Romanticism
Frederick Douglass
2. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
James Thurbur
J.D Salinger
Rhythm
Monologue
3. 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'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nietzscheism
William S. Burroughs
Flannery O'Connor
4. 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
Flannery O'Connor
Richard Wright
Determinism
Imagist Poetry
5. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Nietzscheism
Drama
Loss of Traditional Values
Claude McKay
6. 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
Edith Wharton
Melting Pot
Romanticism
Edgar Allen Poe
7. 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.
Ralph Ellison
Narrative Poem
Nativism
Toni Morrison
8. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
John Smith
Robert Frost
Calvinism
Jack London
9. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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10. 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
Jack London
Thomas Paine
Stanza
Edgar Lee Masters
11. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Racialism
Edith Wharton
Washington Irving
Herman Melville
12. (Colonial Period) Began 'The History of New England' aboard the Arbella in 1630. Lead 2 -000 English emigrant to Massachusetts Bay. Made daily journal-style entries until his death. Intended it to be an account of his long governorship. Style is pla
Lyric Poem
T.S Eliot
Ernest Hemmingway
John Winthrop
13. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Verse
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Willa Cather
Sonnet
14. 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.
Realism
Narrative Poem
Saul Bellow
William Faulkner
15. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Frank Norris
Rhythm
W.E.B Du Bois
Transcendentalism
16. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Blank Verse
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Free Verse
Erica Jong
17. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Poetry
Phillip Roth
Jack Kerouac
Edgar Lee Masters
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
James Fenimore Cooper
Loaded Words
William Faulkner
James Weldon Johnson
19. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
The Declaration of Independence
Naturalism
John Smith
20. 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
Allen Ginsberg
Foot
Thomas Paine
Jean Toomer
21. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Meter
Walt Whitman
Naturalism
William S. Burroughs
22. 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.
James Baldwin
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Jean Toomer
Alice Walker
23. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Claude McKay
Drama
Racialism
Stephen Crane
24. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Free Verse
Monologue
Loaded Words
e.e cummings
25. 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.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Willa Cather
e.e cummings
Rhythm
26. All events follow natural laws.
Theodore Dreiser
Henry David Thoreau
Determinism
John Adams
27. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Sylvia Plath
Henry James
James Baldwin
Thomas Jefferson
28. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Cotton Mather
The Declaration of Independence
Ralph Ellison
Herman Melville
29. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Maya Angelou
John Smith
W.E.B Du Bois
Genteel Tradition
30. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Polemic
Epic Story
Drama
Narrative Poem
31. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Aphorisms
Theodore Dreiser
Modernism
Rhyme
32. Wrote 'Songs of Jamaica' - Poetry and 'Harlem Shadows' (first great literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance. Much of his poetry evokes the rich heritage of Jamaica.
Countee Cullen
Claude McKay
Sylvia Plath
Thomas Paine
33. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Calvinism
Emily Dickinson
James Weldon Johnson
Blank Verse
34. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Toni Morrison
American Adam
Willa Cather
Edwin Arlington Robinson
35. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kate Chopin
36. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
The Declaration of Independence
Theodore Dreiser
Jonathan Edwards
Jack London
37. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Rhyme
William Byrd
Naturalism
Poetry
38. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Emile Zola
Herman Melville
Wonders of the Invisible World
William Byrd
39. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Genteel Tradition
Loss of Traditional Values
Persona
Stanza
40. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Emily Dickinson
Beat Writers
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Wonders of the Invisible World
41. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Thomas Jefferson
Jack London
Henry James
Anne Sexton
42. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
James Thurbur
Thomas Morton
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Transcendental Club
43. (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
Rhyme Scheme
Cotton Mather
Three main colonial era poets
Mayflower Compact
44. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Epic Story
Edith Wharton
Social Darwinism
45. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Refrain
Polemic
Frederick Douglass
Countee Cullen
46. 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
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Thomas Jefferson
Henry James
Drama
47. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
T.S Eliot
Sonnet
Saul Bellow
Poetry
48. 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.
Polemic
Foot
Atavism
Phillip Roth
49. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Three main colonial era poets
Atavism
Persona
Melting Pot
50. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Social Darwinism
Gothic
Rhyme Scheme