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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Romanticism
Henry James
Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau
2. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
John Winthrop
Willa Cather
Anne Sexton
James Weldon Johnson
3. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Frederick Douglass
Broadside
William Bradford
Darwinism
4. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Alice Walker
John Adams
Thomas Paine
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
5. A stanza.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Flannery O'Connor
James Fenimore Cooper
Verse
6. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
John Adams
Willa Cather
Mayflower Compact
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
7. Clever - memorable sayings.
Benjamin Franklin
Booker T. Washington
Aphorisms
Mayflower Compact
8. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Herman Melville
Edgar Lee Masters
American Adam
Modernism
9. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Narrative Poem
Thomas Jefferson
Jonathan Edwards
Racialism
10. 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.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Lyres
John Steinbeck
Claude McKay
11. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Poetry
Thomas Paine
Countee Cullen
The 3 primary literary genres
12. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
William Bradford
Broadside
Atavism
Allen Ginsberg
13. 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
Abigail Adams
Monologue
Henry David Thoreau
Maya Angelou
14. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Saul Bellow
Prose
William Byrd
Loss of Traditional Values
15. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Countee Cullen
Alice Walker
Edith Wharton
Robert Frost
16. 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.
Racialism
Sarah Orne Jewett
Darwinism
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
17. 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.
Polemic
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Darwinism
Ralph Ellison
18. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Jack Kerouac
Gwendolyn Brooks
Calvinism
Herman Melville
19. (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
Willa Cather
e.e cummings
Iambic Pentameter
Puritan Poetry
20. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
John Winthrop
Bret Harte
e.e cummings
Epic Story
21. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Ballad
Genteel Tradition
Broadside
Aphorisms
22. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Loss of Traditional Values
William Bradford
Polemic
Alice Walker
23. 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.
Rhyme
Claude McKay
Epic Story
Allegory
24. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Refrain
Edith Wharton
Frank Norris
James Weldon Johnson
25. Wrote 'Richard Cory' - Created poems dealing with historic myths and characters. Known primarily for short - ironic characteristics of ordinary individuals. Won 3 Pulitzers : 'Collected Poems -' 'The Man Who Died Twice -' and 'Tristram'
Cotton Mather
Thomas Morton
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Saul Bellow
26. 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.
James Fenimore Cooper
Samuel Sewall
Jonathan Edwards
Gothic
27. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Thomas Paine
Three main colonial era poets
Foot
Calvinism
28. 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
Transcendentalism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Cotton Mather
Herman Melville
29. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Foot
Benjamin Franklin
Langston Hughes
Sylvia Plath
30. 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.
Anne Sexton
Nativism
Frederick Douglass
James Fenimore Cooper
31. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Henry James
Ernest Hemmingway
Wonders of the Invisible World
Modernism
32. (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
Cotton Mather
Stanza
Emile Zola
James Weldon Johnson
33. All events follow natural laws.
Thomas Paine
Determinism
Modernism
Drama
34. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Kate Chopin
Lyres
Allegory
Sylvia Plath
35. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Robert Lowell
Robert Frost
Allegory
Three main colonial era poets
36. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Robert Lowell
Beat Writers
Ballad
Jonathan Edwards
37. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Realism
Melting Pot
Beat Movement
Beat Writers
38. 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
Three main colonial era poets
Robert Lowell
W.E.B Du Bois
Bret Harte
39. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Benjamin Franklin
Scientism
Theodore Dreiser
Sarah Orne Jewett
40. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Romanticism
James Baldwin
Alice Walker
Jean Toomer
41. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Nietzscheism
Lyres
Kate Chopin
Aphorisms
42. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Social Darwinism
Iambic Pentameter
Sarah Orne Jewett
Ernest Hemmingway
43. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Ralph Ellison
Drama
Abigail Adams
Gothic
44. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Sylvia Plath
Beat Movement
45. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Emile Zola
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Langston Hughes
Aphorisms
46. 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.
Realism
Determinism
Phillip Roth
Genteel Tradition
47. 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
Gwendolyn Brooks
Realism
Herman Melville
Stephen Crane
48. 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
James Weldon Johnson
Ezra Pound
Verse
William Byrd
49. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Broadside
Samuel Sewall
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Nativism
50. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Vachel Lindsay
Gothic
Rhythm
Zora Neal Hurston
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