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CLEP American Literature
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1. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Maya Angelou
Prose
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thomas Paine
2. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Transcendental Club
Broadside
Genteel Tradition
Modernism
3. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Emile Zola
Narrative Poem
James Weldon Johnson
Rhyme Scheme
4. 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
Jack London
Stephen Crane
Edgar Allen Poe
William Bradford
5. 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
Realism
Frank Norris
Lyres
6. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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7. 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
Flannery O'Connor
Mayflower Compact
Monologue
James Fenimore Cooper
8. 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'
Allegory
Toni Morrison
Racialism
Beat Writers
9. 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
Herman Melville
Imagist Poetry
Willa Cather
Meter
10. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Edgar Allen Poe
Imagist Poetry
James Thurbur
Booker T. Washington
11. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Drama
Iambic Pentameter
Sylvia Plath
Sarah Orne Jewett
12. (Colonial Period) 1. God is King and Ruler. 2. Our duty in this world is to see that God's will prevails.3. Man is depraved from birth. 4. Few will be saved. Damned are damned despite their best efforts. Belief in Covenant Theology : God's covenant w
Jack Kerouac
Langston Hughes
Robert Frost
Calvinism
13. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Erica Jong
Blank Verse
Modernism
Thomas Jefferson
14. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Jack London
Racialism
Transcendental Club
Rhyme Scheme
15. 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
Langston Hughes
Gothic
Racialism
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
16. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Anne Sexton
Iambic Pentameter
Wonders of the Invisible World
Drama
17. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Phillip Roth
Vachel Lindsay
William Bradford
Gwendolyn Brooks
18. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Meter
Lyres
Countee Cullen
Willa Cather
19. 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
Monologue
John Winthrop
The 3 primary literary genres
20. 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
Kate Chopin
Lyric Poem
Naturalism
Modernism
21. 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
Aphorisms
John Smith
Refrain
Romanticism
22. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Melting Pot
Allegory
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
23. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
James Thurbur
Cotton Mather
Frederick Douglass
Lyric Poem
24. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Edith Wharton
Determinism
Jean Toomer
The 3 primary literary genres
25. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
J.D Salinger
Imagist Poetry
Ballad
Beat Movement
26. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Herman Melville
Refrain
Nietzscheism
William Faulkner
27. 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
Poetry
Thomas Paine
Melting Pot
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28. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Jack Kerouac
Genteel Tradition
Jonathan Edwards
Aphorisms
29. 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
Frederick Douglass
Ballad
Henry James
30. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Gothic
Social Darwinism
William S. Burroughs
W.E.B Du Bois
31. 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.
Erica Jong
Herman Melville
e.e cummings
Thomas Paine
32. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
American Adam
Puritan Poetry
Rhyme
Broadside
33. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Bret Harte
Drama
Iambic Pentameter
Persona
34. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Frank Norris
Persona
Lyres
Mary Wilkins Freeman
35. 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
Atavism
Emily Dickinson
Social Darwinism
Frederick Douglass
36. 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'
Vachel Lindsay
Transcendental Club
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Edwin Arlington Robinson
37. (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
American Adam
Thomas Morton
Naturalism
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
38. All events follow natural laws.
Determinism
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemmingway
Beat Movement
39. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Alice Walker
Theodore Dreiser
Norman Mailer
Foot
40. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Bret Harte
Robert Lowell
Refrain
Ballad
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.
Social Darwinism
Puritan Poetry
Wonders of the Invisible World
Broadside
42. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
William S. Burroughs
Robert Frost
Free Verse
Genteel Tradition
43. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Thomas Paine
Rhyme Scheme
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Rhythm
44. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Rhythm
Frank Norris
Foot
Beat Writers
45. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Sonnet
Carl Sandburg
Saul Bellow
Monologue
46. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Allen Ginsberg
Allegory
Scientism
Sonnet
47. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Romanticism
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Imagist Poetry
Broadside
48. 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.
Frank Norris
Henry David Thoreau
Dorthy Parker
Claude McKay
49. 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
Sarah Orne Jewett
Herman Melville
Romanticism
Robert Frost
50. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Sarah Orne Jewett
Benjamin Franklin
James Thurbur
Polemic