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CLEP American Literature
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1. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Blank Verse
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Morton
Nietzscheism
2. Wished to return to more primitive principles - to simplicity - sobriety - religious earnestness - and personal self-control. Aim was to purify church of England from 'Popery' - Persecuted harshly by Charles I and Archbishop of Canterbury William Lau
Emile Zola
Langston Hughes
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Henry James
3. 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
Theodore Dreiser
Thomas Paine
Frank Norris
Bret Harte
4. 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'
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edgar Lee Masters
Epic Story
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
5. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Scan
Robert Lowell
Benjamin Franklin
Refrain
6. Clever - memorable sayings.
Aphorisms
Herman Melville
Gwendolyn Brooks
Melting Pot
7. 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'
Samuel Sewall
Edward Teller
Romanticism
Toni Morrison
8. (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
John Smith
Emily Dickinson
Ezra Pound
Cotton Mather
9. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Imagist Poetry
Rhyme
James Baldwin
Drama
10. People who sang lyrics as they played string-like instruments.
Transcendental Club
Mayflower Compact
Rhyme
Lyres
11. Wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' - first American novel to sell a million copies. The most influential book of the 19th century. Credited with starting the Civil War. Most famous American woman of her day.
John Winthrop
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Poetry
Harriet Beecher Stowe
12. 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
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Verse
Edgar Lee Masters
Walt Whitman
13. '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
Maya Angelou
Free Verse
Walt Whitman
Ernest Hemmingway
14. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Anne Sexton
Edgar Allen Poe
Melting Pot
William Faulkner
15. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Scientism
Vachel Lindsay
Robert Frost
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
16. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Willa Cather
Saul Bellow
Racialism
William S. Burroughs
17. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Rhyme
Ernest Hemmingway
Transcendental Club
Refrain
18. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Alice Walker
Phillip Roth
Naturalism
Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Jean Toomer
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sylvia Plath
Monologue
20. Local Colorist Wrote 'The Awakening' Writing is memorable for its : Vivid and economical style - Rich Local Dialect - and Penetrating view of the culture of South Louisiana.
John Adams
Kate Chopin
Puritan Poetry
James Baldwin
21. 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.'
Aphorisms
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Meter
The 3 primary literary genres
22. 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.
W.E.B Du Bois
Dorthy Parker
e.e cummings
Phillip Roth
23. (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
Ezra Pound
Thomas Morton
Countee Cullen
Modernism
24. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
The 3 primary literary genres
Poetry
Booker T. Washington
Meter
25. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Beat Movement
Poetry
Rhyme
Allen Ginsberg
26. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
James Weldon Johnson
Persona
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Saul Bellow
27. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Aphorisms
Iambic Pentameter
Toni Morrison
Henry James
28. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Edgar Allen Poe
Free Verse
Anne Sexton
Edgar Lee Masters
29. 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.
Sylvia Plath
Free Verse
Gothic
Frederick Douglass
30. 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
William Byrd
Gothic
Nativism
31. 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.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Robert Lowell
Gothic
Realism
32. (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
Dorthy Parker
Puritan Poetry
William S. Burroughs
Ernest Hemmingway
33. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Stanza
Three main colonial era poets
Drama
Lyric Poem
34. 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
Melting Pot
Edgar Allen Poe
Foot
Beat Movement
35. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
W.E.B Du Bois
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emily Dickinson
Monologue
36. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Phillip Roth
Jean Toomer
Loaded Words
Stanza
37. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Polemic
Epic Story
Scientism
Countee Cullen
38. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Jack London
Racialism
Saul Bellow
Epic Story
39. 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
T.S Eliot
Alice Walker
Transcendental Club
Rhythm
40. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Vachel Lindsay
Prose
Sonnet
Maya Angelou
41. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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42. 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
Theodore Dreiser
Modernism
Sarah Orne Jewett
Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. Won the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize - Works focused on the South - Wrote 'As I Lay Dying -' 'Sanctuary -' and 'The sound and the Fury.' Experimented with Stream of Consciousness writing. Considered the most innovative novelist of his time.
W.E.B Du Bois
William Faulkner
Edgar Allen Poe
The Day of Doom
44. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
John Smith
Emile Zola
Blank Verse
Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Prose
Edgar Lee Masters
Edward Teller
Persona
46. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Loaded Words
Emile Zola
e.e cummings
Puritan Poetry
47. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Samuel Sewall
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Day of Doom
Mary Wilkins Freeman
48. Resisted materialism and chose a life of simplicity - close to nature. Walden is a guidebook for life - showing the reader how to live wisely in a world designed to make wise living impossible. 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience' has become a primer
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Foot
49. 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
Henry James
James Baldwin
Walt Whitman
Cotton Mather
50. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Ralph Ellison
Countee Cullen
Henry David Thoreau
Norman Mailer