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CLEP American Literature
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1. (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
Dorthy Parker
Poetry
The 3 primary literary genres
2. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Benjamin Franklin
Edward Teller
Nativism
Persona
3. 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.
Monologue
Robert Lowell
Edgar Lee Masters
Zora Neal Hurston
4. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Booker T. Washington
Claude McKay
Stanza
The 3 primary literary genres
5. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Dorthy Parker
William Faulkner
The 3 primary literary genres
Mary Wilkins Freeman
6. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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7. 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'
Thomas Morton
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Abigail Adams
Edgar Lee Masters
8. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Lyric Poem
Ernest Hemmingway
Modernism
Narrative Poem
9. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Robert Lowell
Kate Chopin
Allegory
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. A stanza.
Polemic
Stanza
Modernism
Verse
11. 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.
William Bradford
William Faulkner
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Polemic
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.
Alice Walker
Edgar Allen Poe
Gothic
James Weldon Johnson
13. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Carl Sandburg
Meter
Frank Norris
Naturalism
14. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Wonders of the Invisible World
15. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
James Weldon Johnson
Social Darwinism
Emily Dickinson
Nativism
16. 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
Broadside
Jack Kerouac
Edgar Allen Poe
17. 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
Poetry
Benjamin Franklin
Edith Wharton
Edgar Lee Masters
18. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Flannery O'Connor
Naturalism
Jean Toomer
19. 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.
Toni Morrison
Mayflower Compact
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Loaded Words
20. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Stanza
Stephen Crane
Loss of Traditional Values
William Byrd
21. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Emile Zola
Thomas Morton
Free Verse
Anne Sexton
22. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Scan
Thomas Morton
Vachel Lindsay
Saul Bellow
23. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Darwinism
Emily Dickinson
Saul Bellow
Meter
24. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Loss of Traditional Values
Verse
Three main colonial era poets
Emile Zola
25. 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
William Faulkner
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Langston Hughes
Ernest Hemmingway
26. 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.
Atavism
Claude McKay
The Day of Doom
Social Darwinism
27. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Narrative Poem
Gwendolyn Brooks
William S. Burroughs
Benjamin Franklin
28. 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
Kate Chopin
Thomas Paine
Transcendentalism
Bret Harte
29. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Gwendolyn Brooks
James Thurbur
Claude McKay
The Declaration of Independence
30. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Loss of Traditional Values
Persona
T.S Eliot
Genteel Tradition
31. 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.'
Ernest Hemmingway
Rhyme Scheme
Sylvia Plath
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
32. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
James Thurbur
Three main colonial era poets
Jack London
Thomas Jefferson
33. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Naturalism
Loaded Words
Ralph Ellison
Wonders of the Invisible World
34. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Erica Jong
James Fenimore Cooper
Flannery O'Connor
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
35. 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
William S. Burroughs
Monologue
Foot
Transcendental Club
36. 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
Cotton Mather
James Baldwin
Zora Neal Hurston
37. First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Novel focus on black cultural identity in contemporary America. Wrote 'The Bluest Eye -' 'Tar Baby -' and 'Beloved'
Toni Morrison
Zora Neal Hurston
Three main colonial era poets
Thomas Morton
38. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Racialism
Prose
Meter
Rhyme Scheme
39. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Allegory
e.e cummings
Lyres
Willa Cather
40. 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.
Iambic Pentameter
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
William S. Burroughs
John Winthrop
41. 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
Anne Sexton
Imagist Poetry
e.e cummings
Beat Movement
42. (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
Polemic
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jonathan Edwards
Romanticism
43. 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
Allen Ginsberg
Washington Irving
Gothic
Flannery O'Connor
44. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Washington Irving
Rhyme Scheme
Jack Kerouac
Maya Angelou
45. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Willa Cather
Bret Harte
Realism
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.'
Countee Cullen
Sylvia Plath
Frank Norris
Loss of Traditional Values
47. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Loss of Traditional Values
Phillip Roth
Poetry
Jack London
48. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Genteel Tradition
Persona
49. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Willa Cather
W.E.B Du Bois
Dorthy Parker
Bret Harte
50. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rhyme
Darwinism
Three main colonial era poets
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