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CLEP American Literature
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1. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Beat Movement
Foot
Saul Bellow
Lyres
2. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Lyres
Edith Wharton
Cotton Mather
Puritan Poetry
3. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Maya Angelou
Jack Kerouac
Scan
Henry David Thoreau
4. End : occurs when words at the ends of lines of poetry rhyme. Internal: occurs when words within a sentences share the same sound - such as 'Each narrow cell in which we dwell.'
Poetry
Emily Dickinson
Washington Irving
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
5. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Imagist Poetry
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Walt Whitman
Social Darwinism
6. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Frank Norris
Epic Story
Anne Sexton
7. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Maya Angelou
Langston Hughes
William Byrd
Edith Wharton
8. 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.
Verse
Atavism
Abigail Adams
The Declaration of Independence
9. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Scientism
Rhyme
Robert Lowell
Lyres
10. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Beat Writers
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Allen Ginsberg
Aphorisms
11. 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
Sarah Orne Jewett
Modernism
Transcendentalism
T.S Eliot
12. 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
Norman Mailer
Thomas Paine
e.e cummings
Thomas Morton
13. 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
Polemic
Carl Sandburg
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William S. Burroughs
14. Well-known humorists.
Meter
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Booker T. Washington
Nietzscheism
Allegory
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
16. 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
John Smith
Romanticism
Calvinism
Stephen Crane
17. 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.
Gothic
William Bradford
The Day of Doom
Refrain
18. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Genteel Tradition
Broadside
Modernism
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
19. Wrote 'The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.' Escaped slave that became one o f the most effective orators of his day - an influential newspaper writer - a militant abolitionist - and a famous diplomat.
Thomas Morton
Frederick Douglass
Ballad
Frank Norris
20. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Blank Verse
Lyric Poem
Erica Jong
Monologue
21. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Ezra Pound
James Thurbur
Vachel Lindsay
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
22. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Walt Whitman
Polemic
Sonnet
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
23. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Dorthy Parker
The Day of Doom
Nathaniel Hawthorne
W.E.B Du Bois
24. (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
Calvinism
Social Darwinism
Lyric Poem
Norman Mailer
25. (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
Jack London
Thomas Morton
James Thurbur
Theodore Dreiser
26. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Aphorisms
Iambic Pentameter
William Bradford
Sarah Orne Jewett
27. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Free Verse
Transcendentalism
Aphorisms
Narrative Poem
28. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Stephen Crane
James Weldon Johnson
Flannery O'Connor
Drama
29. 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
Anne Sexton
Drama
Jack London
Emily Dickinson
30. 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
Naturalism
Theodore Dreiser
J.D Salinger
Abigail Adams
31. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Realism
Samuel Sewall
Robert Frost
32. 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
Allen Ginsberg
Narrative Poem
Romanticism
Lyres
33. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Imagist Poetry
Poetry
Genteel Tradition
Abigail Adams
34. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Benjamin Franklin
Three main colonial era poets
Scan
Jean Toomer
35. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Theodore Dreiser
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Loss of Traditional Values
Determinism
36. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Anne Sexton
Beat Movement
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Refrain
37. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Frederick Douglass
Washington Irving
Vachel Lindsay
Flannery O'Connor
38. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Modernism
Polemic
John Smith
Refrain
39. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
James Thurbur
Emile Zola
J.D Salinger
James Baldwin
40. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Epic Story
Vachel Lindsay
Edward Teller
Jonathan Edwards
41. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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42. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Jonathan Edwards
Henry David Thoreau
The Declaration of Independence
The 3 primary literary genres
43. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Foot
Imagist Poetry
James Baldwin
Narrative Poem
44. 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
Beat Movement
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Ezra Pound
Free Verse
45. 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
Beat Writers
Imagist Poetry
Sonnet
William Byrd
46. 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.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Ralph Ellison
Broadside
Rhyme Scheme
47. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Abigail Adams
Sylvia Plath
Erica Jong
Saul Bellow
48. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Beat Movement
Rhythm
Three main colonial era poets
Phillip Roth
49. Ranked as top American novelist - even though few of his contemporaries recognized his genius. Moby Dick is considered to be America's greatest prose epic. It is also top contender for best American novel. Wrote the first great romance about the Sout
Bret Harte
Herman Melville
Edward Teller
Jack Kerouac
50. Clever - memorable sayings.
Vachel Lindsay
Thomas Paine
Aphorisms
Robert Lowell
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