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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Rhyme
Imagist Poetry
Gwendolyn Brooks
Flannery O'Connor
2. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Jonathan Edwards
Maya Angelou
Stanza
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
3. 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.
Verse
e.e cummings
Henry David Thoreau
Countee Cullen
4. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Frederick Douglass
Walt Whitman
Atavism
Melting Pot
5. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
James Fenimore Cooper
Stephen Crane
Anne Sexton
American Adam
6. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Ralph Ellison
Saul Bellow
Kate Chopin
Nietzscheism
7. 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.
Persona
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Benjamin Franklin
Imagist Poetry
8. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Stanza
Nietzscheism
Theodore Dreiser
Jack London
9. Imagist Poet - Wrote 'In a Station of the Metro -' ' The Pisan Cantos -' 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberly -' and 'Mauberly.' Modeled 'Cantos' after Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' - Infamous traitor; Staunch supporter of Mussolini during WWII. Didn't speak for the
William S. Burroughs
Nativism
Maya Angelou
Ezra Pound
10. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Ralph Ellison
Transcendentalism
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
The Day of Doom
11. 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
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
James Baldwin
12. 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
Refrain
Foot
Darwinism
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.'
James Thurbur
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Zora Neal Hurston
Walt Whitman
14. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Henry David Thoreau
Nietzscheism
Willa Cather
American Adam
15. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Claude McKay
Emile Zola
Poetry
e.e cummings
16. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
W.E.B Du Bois
Epic Story
The Declaration of Independence
Theodore Dreiser
17. A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's - in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature - and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter - intuiti
Meter
Free Verse
Transcendentalism
Modernism
18. 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
Three main colonial era poets
Jonathan Edwards
Stephen Crane
19. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Booker T. Washington
John Adams
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lyres
20. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Booker T. Washington
Stephen Crane
Jack Kerouac
Edgar Lee Masters
21. 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
Emile Zola
Aphorisms
Langston Hughes
Refrain
22. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
James Baldwin
Gwendolyn Brooks
Norman Mailer
Emile Zola
23. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Drama
Foot
Flannery O'Connor
Beat Writers
24. 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.
Nativism
The Declaration of Independence
Jonathan Edwards
Nietzscheism
25. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Frank Norris
Countee Cullen
Toni Morrison
Epic Story
26. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Emile Zola
Erica Jong
J.D Salinger
Sonnet
27. 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.
Scan
Nietzscheism
Gothic
Frederick Douglass
28. (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
Three main colonial era poets
Loss of Traditional Values
Puritan Poetry
Prose
29. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Broadside
Jean Toomer
Edgar Lee Masters
Rhyme
30. Typically referred to as the greatest American novelist (next to Mark Twain) of the second half of the 19th century. Main theme of his work was the innocence and exuberance of America compared to the corruption and wisdom of Europe. Wrote 'The Portra
Herman Melville
Thomas Paine
Henry James
Lyric Poem
31. 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.
Polemic
Blank Verse
Atavism
John Adams
32. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Bret Harte
Narrative Poem
Alice Walker
John Adams
33. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Ralph Ellison
Loaded Words
Rhyme Scheme
Edward Teller
34. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Rhyme Scheme
Realism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wonders of the Invisible World
35. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Saul Bellow
Beat Movement
Edwin Arlington Robinson
William Byrd
36. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
Social Darwinism
Prose
Naturalism
37. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
American Adam
Claude McKay
Beat Writers
William Faulkner
38. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Sonnet
Frank Norris
Refrain
Claude McKay
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.
Sarah Orne Jewett
William Byrd
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Frost
40. All events follow natural laws.
Lyric Poem
Edith Wharton
Frank Norris
Determinism
41. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Ralph Ellison
Sylvia Plath
Vachel Lindsay
Saul Bellow
42. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Romanticism
Anne Sexton
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Three main colonial era poets
43. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Stephen Crane
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Refrain
Countee Cullen
44. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Thomas Paine
James Baldwin
Alice Walker
Edgar Lee Masters
45. 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
Stanza
Bret Harte
Maya Angelou
Genteel Tradition
46. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Free Verse
Realism
Gwendolyn Brooks
Ralph Ellison
47. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
W.E.B Du Bois
Persona
Jonathan Edwards
William S. Burroughs
48. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
James Weldon Johnson
Ralph Ellison
Poetry
49. Book of feline poems - 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats -' formed the basis of the Broadway hit 'Cats.' Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Published 'The Waste-Land' which became the most famous poem of the first half of the 20th Centur
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jonathan Edwards
T.S Eliot
Edgar Lee Masters
50. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.