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CLEP American Literature
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1. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Free Verse
Realism
Epic Story
Racialism
2. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
William Byrd
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jean Toomer
3. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Benjamin Franklin
William S. Burroughs
Iambic Pentameter
Beat Writers
4. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
John Steinbeck
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
James Thurbur
Genteel Tradition
5. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Nietzscheism
William Bradford
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maya Angelou
6. 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
Thomas Paine
Kate Chopin
Anne Sexton
Abigail Adams
7. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Zora Neal Hurston
Free Verse
Anne Sexton
Mary Wilkins Freeman
8. 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'
Richard Wright
William S. Burroughs
Aphorisms
Prose
9. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Norman Mailer
Ezra Pound
Sonnet
Epic Story
10. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
James Thurbur
The Declaration of Independence
Beat Movement
Persona
11. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Willa Cather
John Adams
Wonders of the Invisible World
Narrative Poem
12. All events follow natural laws.
Benjamin Franklin
John Winthrop
Three main colonial era poets
Determinism
13. 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
Transcendental Club
Cotton Mather
Emily Dickinson
14. The belief that 'true' Americans were those of earlier Anglo-Saxon descent - and that this 'race' was under threat from the growing influx of Central European and Asian immigrants.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nativism
Maya Angelou
Genteel Tradition
15. 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
Toni Morrison
Romanticism
e.e cummings
Free Verse
16. 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.
Jack Kerouac
Frank Norris
Robert Lowell
Frederick Douglass
17. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Naturalism
Allen Ginsberg
Foot
Booker T. Washington
18. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
John Smith
Lyres
Willa Cather
Racialism
19. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Edith Wharton
Monologue
Allen Ginsberg
Modernism
20. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Mayflower Compact
Edward Teller
James Fenimore Cooper
Rhyme
21. 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
Stephen Crane
James Fenimore Cooper
James Baldwin
American Adam
22. 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.
W.E.B Du Bois
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Scientism
Aphorisms
23. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
William S. Burroughs
Drama
William Bradford
Toni Morrison
24. 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
Edgar Lee Masters
Bret Harte
James Thurbur
Norman Mailer
25. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Foot
Blank Verse
Flannery O'Connor
Thomas Jefferson
26. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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27. Created new poetic forms and subjects to fashion a distinctly American type of poetic expression. Rejected conventional themes - traditional literary references - allusions - and rhymes. Used long lines to capture rhythms of natural speech - free ver
Walt Whitman
Three main colonial era poets
Modernism
William Byrd
28. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Loss of Traditional Values
Booker T. Washington
Puritan Poetry
29. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Nietzscheism
Rhyme
Verse
Iambic Pentameter
30. 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
Walt Whitman
Transcendental Club
Iambic Pentameter
Bret Harte
31. 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.
Zora Neal Hurston
Erica Jong
Willa Cather
Thomas Jefferson
32. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
William Byrd
Phillip Roth
The Declaration of Independence
Willa Cather
33. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Edgar Lee Masters
Emile Zola
Countee Cullen
Nativism
34. 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.
Benjamin Franklin
Herman Melville
Realism
The Day of Doom
35. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Kate Chopin
Willa Cather
Frederick Douglass
Loaded Words
36. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Frank Norris
Racialism
Erica Jong
37. 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
Bret Harte
Jack Kerouac
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Rhyme Scheme
38. 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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Atavism
Erica Jong
39. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Emile Zola
James Fenimore Cooper
Melting Pot
J.D Salinger
40. 'The Old Man and the Sea -' 'The Sun Also Rises -' 'A Farewell to Arms -' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Writing style emphasizes: Short sentences - brief paragraphs - active verbs - authenticity - compression - clarity - and immediacy. Produced some
Ernest Hemmingway
Thomas Paine
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Ezra Pound
41. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
The Declaration of Independence
The 3 primary literary genres
Gothic
W.E.B Du Bois
42. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Transcendental Club
Poetry
Allen Ginsberg
43. Wrote 'Grapes of Wrath -' 'Of Mice and Men -' and 'East of Eden -' and 'Winter of Our Discontent.' Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature - Pulitzer and and the National Book Award.
Ezra Pound
John Steinbeck
Sylvia Plath
Free Verse
44. Wrote 'Songs of Jamaica' - Poetry and 'Harlem Shadows' (first great literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance. Much of his poetry evokes the rich heritage of Jamaica.
Stanza
Claude McKay
Maya Angelou
Erica Jong
45. A stanza.
Lyres
Robert Frost
Verse
Maya Angelou
46. 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
Sonnet
Bret Harte
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
47. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Robert Lowell
Saul Bellow
Edith Wharton
48. (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
Naturalism
Ezra Pound
John Steinbeck
Thomas Morton
49. Clever - memorable sayings.
Darwinism
Foot
Aphorisms
Phillip Roth
50. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Ezra Pound
Racialism
Lyric Poem
William Bradford