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CLEP American Literature
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1. (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
The Day of Doom
Puritan Poetry
Ralph Ellison
Washington Irving
2. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Loss of Traditional Values
John Smith
Transcendental Club
Ralph Ellison
3. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Benjamin Franklin
Jack London
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Robert Lowell
4. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
James Fenimore Cooper
Richard Wright
Jean Toomer
5. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Prose
Three main colonial era poets
e.e cummings
F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Meter
The Day of Doom
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Polemic
7. A stanza.
Jean Toomer
Verse
Henry James
Robert Frost
8. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Broadside
James Thurbur
Beat Writers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Well-known humorists.
Rhyme
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Romanticism
Free Verse
10. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Jean Toomer
Atavism
Loss of Traditional Values
Broadside
11. 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
Ezra Pound
American Adam
Stephen Crane
Thomas Morton
12. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
William S. Burroughs
Allen Ginsberg
William Faulkner
Lyres
13. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
Gothic
Allen Ginsberg
Naturalism
14. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Flannery O'Connor
Phillip Roth
Henry James
Transcendental Club
15. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Theodore Dreiser
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Booker T. Washington
Henry David Thoreau
16. 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
Scan
Henry David Thoreau
Booker T. Washington
17. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stephen Crane
Countee Cullen
18. 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.
Phillip Roth
Emile Zola
Realism
John Steinbeck
19. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Willa Cather
Sonnet
Calvinism
Foot
20. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Beat Writers
Refrain
Lyric Poem
Atavism
21. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Nietzscheism
Modernism
Benjamin Franklin
Frederick Douglass
22. (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
Edith Wharton
Cotton Mather
John Steinbeck
Loaded Words
23. 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.
William Byrd
James Fenimore Cooper
Kate Chopin
Flannery O'Connor
24. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Kate Chopin
Vachel Lindsay
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Polemic
25. 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
Narrative Poem
Phillip Roth
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Emily Dickinson
26. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
James Baldwin
Frank Norris
Meter
27. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Abigail Adams
Frank Norris
Allegory
Darwinism
28. 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
e.e cummings
Gothic
Frank Norris
29. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Stephen Crane
Booker T. Washington
Realism
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
30. (Colonial Period) 1. God is King and Ruler. 2. Our duty in this world is to see that God's will prevails.3. Man is depraved from birth. 4. Few will be saved. Damned are damned despite their best efforts. Belief in Covenant Theology : God's covenant w
Thomas Morton
Calvinism
Puritan Poetry
Gothic
31. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
Jack London
Iambic Pentameter
Herman Melville
32. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Narrative Poem
James Thurbur
Ballad
33. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Anne Sexton
Emily Dickinson
T.S Eliot
Iambic Pentameter
34. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Saul Bellow
Foot
Rhyme
Theodore Dreiser
35. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Determinism
Wonders of the Invisible World
Scan
James Thurbur
36. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Erica Jong
Abigail Adams
Stephen Crane
Nietzscheism
37. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
William Faulkner
Lyric Poem
Thomas Morton
Monologue
38. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Thomas Morton
Emile Zola
Cotton Mather
Carl Sandburg
39. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Ezra Pound
The 3 primary literary genres
Maya Angelou
Benjamin Franklin
40. 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
Ezra Pound
William Faulkner
William Bradford
41. Credited with creating: the modern short story and the detective novel - and the entire genre of mystery. Wrote 'The Philosophy of Composition' - 'The Raven' - 'Tell-Tale Heart -' 'The Cask of Amontillado -' and 'The Gold Bug.' (The first detective
Nietzscheism
Norman Mailer
e.e cummings
Edgar Allen Poe
42. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Nietzscheism
Allen Ginsberg
Thomas Morton
Norman Mailer
43. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Ralph Ellison
William Byrd
Monologue
Jean Toomer
44. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Melting Pot
Darwinism
Lyres
45. (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
Persona
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Edith Wharton
John Winthrop
46. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Cotton Mather
Narrative Poem
Countee Cullen
Thomas Morton
47. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Monologue
Lyric Poem
Atavism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
48. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Carl Sandburg
John Smith
Willa Cather
James Baldwin
49. 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
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Bret Harte
Jack London
John Adams
50. 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.
Claude McKay
Lyres
Social Darwinism
John Steinbeck