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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Atavism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Sexton
James Fenimore Cooper
2. 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 Faulkner
Vachel Lindsay
Kate Chopin
Foot
3. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Washington Irving
Robert Frost
Racialism
James Thurbur
4. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
James Fenimore Cooper
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Racialism
Melting Pot
5. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Maya Angelou
Sarah Orne Jewett
Phillip Roth
Rhyme
6. 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'
Scan
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Langston Hughes
Benjamin Franklin
7. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Three main colonial era poets
The 3 primary literary genres
James Weldon Johnson
Wonders of the Invisible World
8. (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
Frederick Douglass
William S. Burroughs
Jack London
9. 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.
Flannery O'Connor
Claude McKay
The 3 primary literary genres
Atavism
10. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
The 3 primary literary genres
John Steinbeck
Free Verse
Theodore Dreiser
11. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Maya Angelou
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Prose
Jonathan Edwards
12. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gothic
Alice Walker
William S. Burroughs
13. 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.
Erica Jong
e.e cummings
Zora Neal Hurston
Frank Norris
14. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Stanza
Gwendolyn Brooks
Allegory
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
15. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Verse
Persona
Emile Zola
Benjamin Franklin
16. 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
Ezra Pound
Vachel Lindsay
Saul Bellow
The 3 primary literary genres
17. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Sylvia Plath
Langston Hughes
Zora Neal Hurston
Epic Story
18. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Gwendolyn Brooks
Beat Movement
The Declaration of Independence
Saul Bellow
19. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Jack Kerouac
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Lowell
Allen Ginsberg
20. 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
T.S Eliot
Genteel Tradition
Transcendental Club
21. 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
Flannery O'Connor
John Winthrop
Edgar Lee Masters
Sarah Orne Jewett
22. 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
Gwendolyn Brooks
Refrain
Jack London
23. Literary movement of the 19th century that traced the effects of heredity and environment on people who ere helpless to change their situations. Also called Determinism for its belief in the effects of environment - heredity - and chance on human fat
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maya Angelou
John Smith
Naturalism
24. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Ballad
Thomas Jefferson
e.e cummings
Poetry
25. 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
Robert Lowell
Transcendentalism
Nietzscheism
Mayflower Compact
26. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Vachel Lindsay
Loaded Words
Puritan Poetry
Iambic Pentameter
27. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
J.D Salinger
Ernest Hemmingway
Washington Irving
William Byrd
28. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Loss of Traditional Values
Jean Toomer
Poetry
Robert Frost
29. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
James Weldon Johnson
Scientism
John Adams
Sonnet
30. First great writer of psychological fiction; obsessed with sin and guilt. 'The Scarlet Letter' - 'Young Goodman Brown' - Claimed his work was romance and therefore not required to be realistic.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Alice Walker
Jack Kerouac
31. 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
Three main colonial era poets
Imagist Poetry
Puritan Poetry
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
32. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Monologue
Thomas Paine
Theodore Dreiser
Anne Sexton
33. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Iambic Pentameter
Foot
Erica Jong
The Declaration of Independence
34. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
William Faulkner
Frank Norris
Blank Verse
Scan
35. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Rhyme
Washington Irving
Ballad
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
36. (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
Edward Teller
Genteel Tradition
Transcendentalism
Thomas Morton
37. 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
Claude McKay
Transcendentalism
Ballad
38. (Colonial Period) One of the most brilliant of American thinkers. Theologian and philosopher; vigorous defender of Calvinistic orthodoxy at the end of the Puritan era. Influenced major nineteenth century writers such as Emerson - Hawthorne - Melville
Carl Sandburg
Monologue
Alice Walker
Jonathan Edwards
39. 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.
Frederick Douglass
James Weldon Johnson
Samuel Sewall
Jack Kerouac
40. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Saul Bellow
Theodore Dreiser
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Darwinism
41. 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.'
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Puritan Poetry
Polemic
Stanza
42. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Narrative Poem
Persona
Lyric Poem
Rhyme Scheme
43. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Robert Frost
Walt Whitman
Kate Chopin
44. 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.
Washington Irving
Realism
Narrative Poem
J.D Salinger
45. 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.
Emily Dickinson
Darwinism
William Faulkner
Puritan Poetry
46. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Jack London
Gwendolyn Brooks
William S. Burroughs
Willa Cather
47. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Meter
Three main colonial era poets
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Naturalism
48. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Romanticism
Refrain
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
49. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Epic Story
Erica Jong
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Allegory
50. 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
Langston Hughes
The 3 primary literary genres
Jack London
John Adams
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