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CLEP American Literature

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1. 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






2. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.






3. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'






4. 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






5. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.






6. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.






7. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'






8. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature






9. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'






10. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'






11. In the 1920s - became the symbol of the liberated woman for her wit and independence. Known for her caustic and clever poems and short stories.






12. Well-known humorists.






13. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'






14. 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.






15. 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.'






16. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.






17. 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.






18. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.






19. Prose - Poetry - Drama






20. 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.






21. 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'






22. 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






23. She holds a unique place in American history as both the wife of one president and the mother of another. In her own right - she was an ardent American patriot. Her perseverance during the American Revolution kept her family together and enabled her






24. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'






25. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'






26. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.

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27. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'






28. 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






29. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.






30. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'






31. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.






32. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.






33. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.






34. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart






35. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.






36. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor






37. A stanza.






38. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.






39. 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.






40. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.






41. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.






42. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.






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.






44. 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'






45. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.






46. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'






47. (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






48. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.






49. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.






50. 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