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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
John Steinbeck
Willa Cather
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Allen Poe
2. 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
Edward Teller
Carl Sandburg
Sarah Orne Jewett
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3. 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.
Persona
Thomas Jefferson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Erica Jong
4. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Imagist Poetry
Epic Story
Blank Verse
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
5. 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
Transcendental Club
John Smith
Stephen Crane
Robert Lowell
6. 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
Naturalism
Saul Bellow
James Weldon Johnson
Emile Zola
7. 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
Emily Dickinson
Loss of Traditional Values
The Day of Doom
Herman Melville
8. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Scientism
John Smith
William Bradford
Ballad
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
Lyres
Three main colonial era poets
Washington Irving
Racialism
10. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Thomas Paine
Toni Morrison
Theodore Dreiser
11. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Benjamin Franklin
Gwendolyn Brooks
Stephen Crane
Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
Erica Jong
Benjamin Franklin
Darwinism
John Smith
13. 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.
Prose
Atavism
Edward Teller
Sarah Orne Jewett
14. 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
Carl Sandburg
Imagist Poetry
Lyres
Refrain
15. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Sarah Orne Jewett
James Baldwin
Booker T. Washington
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16. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Transcendentalism
Frank Norris
Thomas Jefferson
Persona
17. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Sonnet
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Day of Doom
Darwinism
18. 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.
Langston Hughes
Gothic
Beat Writers
William Faulkner
19. An organization of the leading transcendentalists living around Boston. They were interested in new developments in theology - philosophy - and literature. Major writers: Ripley - Emerson - Alcott - Fuller - Hawthorne - Thoreau - Channing - Hedge - P
Rhyme
Iambic Pentameter
Transcendental Club
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
20. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Rhythm
Darwinism
Polemic
Monologue
21. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Verse
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scientism
Allegory
22. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Nietzscheism
Edward Teller
Three main colonial era poets
Determinism
23. Clever - memorable sayings.
Abigail Adams
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Edward Teller
Aphorisms
24. 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.
Zora Neal Hurston
Social Darwinism
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Willa Cather
25. Well-known humorists.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Willa Cather
Beat Movement
Iambic Pentameter
26. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Booker T. Washington
Henry David Thoreau
Loaded Words
Robert Lowell
27. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Allegory
Jack London
Darwinism
James Baldwin
28. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Modernism
Robert Frost
Booker T. Washington
Henry David Thoreau
29. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Wonders of the Invisible World
The Day of Doom
e.e cummings
James Baldwin
30. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Loaded Words
Determinism
Imagist Poetry
Sylvia Plath
31. A stanza.
Melting Pot
Gwendolyn Brooks
Wonders of the Invisible World
Verse
32. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Sonnet
T.S Eliot
Aphorisms
Ballad
33. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Naturalism
Narrative Poem
Robert Lowell
Norman Mailer
34. (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
James Baldwin
Gothic
Verse
Jonathan Edwards
35. 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.
Blank Verse
Social Darwinism
Abigail Adams
Rhyme
36. American novelist - essayist - social critic - painter and spoken performer. Most of his works are autobiographical. Frequently experimented with drugs. He wrote the 'Naked Lunch' and the 'Cities of Red Night'
William S. Burroughs
Rhythm
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Jean Toomer
37. Pilgrim's constitution. Shaped the politics - religion - and social behavior of the first settlers. Eventually influenced the shape - style and content of the U.S Constitution. William Bradford was famous for being one of the authors and signers.
Stanza
Mayflower Compact
Norman Mailer
Emile Zola
38. Wrote 'since feeling is first -' 'somewhere i have never traveled - gladly beyond -' and 'The Enormous Room' - Experimented with : form - punctuation - spelling - typography - grammar - imagery - rhythm - and syntax.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
e.e cummings
Prose
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
39. 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
Herman Melville
John Winthrop
Saul Bellow
Norman Mailer
40. 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
Gothic
Romanticism
Rhyme Scheme
Harriet Beecher Stowe
41. All events follow natural laws.
Langston Hughes
Flannery O'Connor
Emile Zola
Determinism
42. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Frank Norris
William Faulkner
Dorthy Parker
43. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Allegory
Emile Zola
Ralph Ellison
American Adam
44. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
Thomas Jefferson
Broadside
Beat Writers
45. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Narrative Poem
Transcendentalism
Alice Walker
Norman Mailer
46. 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.'
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Erica Jong
Romanticism
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
47. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
William Byrd
Polemic
Transcendental Club
Drama
48. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Foot
Rhyme
Determinism
Rhyme Scheme
49. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Stanza
Mayflower Compact
Allegory
Ballad
50. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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