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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
Puritan Poetry
Polemic
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Epic Story
2. 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
Sylvia Plath
Refrain
Aphorisms
3. Wrote 'The House of Mirth -' and 'The Age of Innocence' most famous for 'Ethan Frome' Noted use of indirection and allusion. First women to win a Pulitzer for 'The Age of Innocence' Main themes were upper-class life and the constraints it placed on b
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Edith Wharton
Carl Sandburg
Lyric Poem
4. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Sylvia Plath
Loss of Traditional Values
Stanza
Jonathan Edwards
5. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Stephen Crane
e.e cummings
Willa Cather
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
6. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
William Faulkner
Thomas Paine
Booker T. Washington
Beat Writers
7. 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
Foot
Zora Neal Hurston
Ezra Pound
8. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Emily Dickinson
John Smith
Polemic
9. 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'
Gothic
Alice Walker
Benjamin Franklin
Edwin Arlington Robinson
10. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Meter
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Three main colonial era poets
The Declaration of Independence
11. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Aphorisms
Edward Teller
Allegory
Polemic
12. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Epic Story
Allen Ginsberg
Robert Lowell
Ralph Ellison
13. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
T.S Eliot
Scan
William S. Burroughs
Atavism
14. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Beat Movement
Stephen Crane
James Baldwin
Benjamin Franklin
15. 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.
Willa Cather
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
William Byrd
Langston Hughes
16. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
James Baldwin
Gwendolyn Brooks
Lyres
17. Key intellectual and philosophical voice of 19th-century America. Key player in the transcendentalist movement. First to define what made American poetry American - it is verse that celebrates ordinary experience rather than the epic themes of the pa
Frederick Douglass
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ezra Pound
Gothic
18. 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.
Sarah Orne Jewett
William S. Burroughs
Jack London
Allegory
19. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Poetry
Emile Zola
Stanza
Countee Cullen
20. Clever - memorable sayings.
Anne Sexton
Aphorisms
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Day of Doom
21. 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.
Rhythm
William Byrd
e.e cummings
Alice Walker
22. A stanza.
Jean Toomer
Verse
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry James
23. 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
Booker T. Washington
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dorthy Parker
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.
Emily Dickinson
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Countee Cullen
25. 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.'
Atavism
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Rhyme
The 3 primary literary genres
26. 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
Robert Frost
J.D Salinger
James Fenimore Cooper
Loss of Traditional Values
27. 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
Abigail Adams
Edgar Lee Masters
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Henry David Thoreau
28. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Genteel Tradition
Washington Irving
Langston Hughes
Edgar Lee Masters
29. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Richard Wright
William S. Burroughs
Free Verse
Nativism
30. Well-known humorists.
Blank Verse
Samuel Sewall
Countee Cullen
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
31. 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.
Abigail Adams
Lyres
Edward Teller
Gothic
32. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Theodore Dreiser
Three main colonial era poets
Stephen Crane
James Thurbur
33. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Maya Angelou
Rhyme Scheme
Loss of Traditional Values
Beat Writers
34. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
John Adams
Social Darwinism
Vachel Lindsay
Edward Teller
35. 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
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Calvinism
Edward Teller
36. (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
Thomas Jefferson
Iambic Pentameter
Norman Mailer
37. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Jack London
Poetry
Booker T. Washington
Cotton Mather
38. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Sonnet
Thomas Paine
Stanza
Genteel Tradition
39. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maya Angelou
Claude McKay
Nathaniel Hawthorne
40. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
The Declaration of Independence
James Baldwin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jack London
41. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
Countee Cullen
Modernism
Social Darwinism
42. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Sylvia Plath
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gwendolyn Brooks
Epic Story
43. 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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Transcendentalism
44. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
James Thurbur
J.D Salinger
Lyres
Maya Angelou
45. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Thomas Paine
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Broadside
46. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Genteel Tradition
Jean Toomer
Scientism
Robert Lowell
47. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Jonathan Edwards
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Jack London
John Adams
48. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
e.e cummings
Jonathan Edwards
Thomas Jefferson
Emily Dickinson
49. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Determinism
John Steinbeck
Iambic Pentameter
Harriet Beecher Stowe
50. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Ralph Ellison
John Steinbeck
Rhyme Scheme
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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