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CLEP American Literature
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1. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Polemic
Sonnet
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Adams
2. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
T.S Eliot
Countee Cullen
e.e cummings
Nietzscheism
3. 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
Emile Zola
Romanticism
Norman Mailer
Frank Norris
4. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
James Weldon Johnson
Anne Sexton
Henry James
Washington Irving
5. (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
Thomas Morton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Countee Cullen
6. 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
James Baldwin
John Adams
Washington Irving
Edgar Lee Masters
7. 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
T.S Eliot
Mayflower Compact
Saul Bellow
Broadside
8. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Nativism
Atavism
Emile Zola
Jonathan Edwards
9. Father of American Literature - First American writer to achieve an international reputation. Rip Van Winkle (antihero). Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Devil and Tom Walker. Was 50 years old before his real name appeared on any of his books. Used alias
Verse
Norman Mailer
Washington Irving
Samuel Sewall
10. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Sarah Orne Jewett
Emile Zola
W.E.B Du Bois
Jack Kerouac
11. 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.
Social Darwinism
Allegory
Genteel Tradition
Stanza
12. 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
Anne Sexton
Edgar Allen Poe
Saul Bellow
Langston Hughes
13. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
James Baldwin
Toni Morrison
Transcendental Club
F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Robert Frost
Naturalism
Sylvia Plath
Samuel Sewall
15. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rhyme
Edgar Allen Poe
Imagist Poetry
16. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Epic Story
William Bradford
Thomas Jefferson
Meter
17. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Rhyme Scheme
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Walt Whitman
Alice Walker
18. 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
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
John Winthrop
Emily Dickinson
William Bradford
19. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
William Bradford
Bret Harte
Vachel Lindsay
Broadside
20. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Melting Pot
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Frank Norris
Scan
21. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
W.E.B Du Bois
Social Darwinism
Puritan Poetry
Frederick Douglass
22. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
John Steinbeck
Benjamin Franklin
Monologue
The Declaration of Independence
23. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Robert Lowell
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Narrative Poem
Meter
24. 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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Naturalism
James Thurbur
Three main colonial era poets
25. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Monologue
Blank Verse
Norman Mailer
Narrative Poem
26. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
J.D Salinger
James Fenimore Cooper
Jack London
Alice Walker
27. (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
Herman Melville
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Epic Story
28. All events follow natural laws.
Thomas Morton
Lyres
Rhyme Scheme
Determinism
29. Local Colorist Wrote 'The Awakening' Writing is memorable for its : Vivid and economical style - Rich Local Dialect - and Penetrating view of the culture of South Louisiana.
Prose
Kate Chopin
Cotton Mather
Thomas Jefferson
30. A stanza.
Verse
James Weldon Johnson
James Thurbur
James Baldwin
31. 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.
Zora Neal Hurston
Atavism
Sylvia Plath
Beat Movement
32. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Jack London
Puritan Poetry
Iambic Pentameter
Edith Wharton
33. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Robert Frost
Free Verse
Jack London
Beat Movement
34. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Countee Cullen
Wonders of the Invisible World
Melting Pot
Edgar Lee Masters
35. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Social Darwinism
Ezra Pound
Racialism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
36. 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.
Loss of Traditional Values
James Thurbur
J.D Salinger
Realism
37. 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
Darwinism
Erica Jong
Stephen Crane
Modernism
38. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Rhythm
Walt Whitman
Cotton Mather
Transcendentalism
39. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Monologue
Langston Hughes
Benjamin Franklin
Anne Sexton
40. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Social Darwinism
J.D Salinger
Monologue
Mary Wilkins Freeman
41. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Free Verse
Meter
Narrative Poem
42. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Stanza
John Smith
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Foot
43. 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.
The Day of Doom
Cotton Mather
Claude McKay
Bret Harte
44. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Ballad
William Bradford
Thomas Jefferson
Loaded Words
45. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ballad
Gothic
Emile Zola
Cotton Mather
46. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Allen Ginsberg
Narrative Poem
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Herman Melville
47. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
William S. Burroughs
Edgar Lee Masters
Theodore Dreiser
John Steinbeck
48. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Puritan Poetry
Polemic
Wonders of the Invisible World
Scientism
49. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Booker T. Washington
Atavism
Jack Kerouac
Broadside
50. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Jonathan Edwards
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
James Baldwin
Lyric Poem