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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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
Foot
Lyric Poem
Bret Harte
e.e cummings
2. '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
Nativism
Emile Zola
Ernest Hemmingway
Romanticism
3. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Gwendolyn Brooks
William S. Burroughs
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Emile Zola
4. First great writer of psychological fiction; obsessed with sin and guilt. 'The Scarlet Letter' - 'Young Goodman Brown' - Claimed his work was romance and therefore not required to be realistic.
Broadside
Imagist Poetry
Wonders of the Invisible World
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Booker T. Washington
Loaded Words
Thomas Morton
Rhyme
6. 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.
Stanza
Social Darwinism
Abigail Adams
Norman Mailer
7. 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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Emily Dickinson
Jean Toomer
Nativism
8. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
American Adam
John Winthrop
Prose
Wonders of the Invisible World
9. (Colonial Period) Wrote Of Plymouth Plantation (First Thanksgiving) - Chronicled the Pilgrim experience from the religious considerations that caused them to leave England for Holland and then for America.Style is dignified and Grave - and events are
Edward Teller
William Bradford
John Smith
Blank Verse
10. 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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Beat Writers
Atavism
Countee Cullen
11. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Poetry
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Broadside
12. 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
T.S Eliot
Thomas Morton
Henry James
Realism
13. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
James Baldwin
Social Darwinism
Robert Frost
Allen Ginsberg
14. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Abigail Adams
James Fenimore Cooper
Samuel Sewall
The Declaration of Independence
15. 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
Allen Ginsberg
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
16. 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.'
John Adams
Nathaniel Hawthorne
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Emile Zola
17. 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.
Zora Neal Hurston
Norman Mailer
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Scientism
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.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Zora Neal Hurston
John Smith
19. 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'
Bret Harte
Nativism
John Steinbeck
William S. Burroughs
20. (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
Puritan Poetry
Iambic Pentameter
Racialism
Genteel Tradition
21. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
The 3 primary literary genres
James Weldon Johnson
Free Verse
Phillip Roth
22. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Henry James
Allen Ginsberg
Sarah Orne Jewett
Persona
23. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Beat Movement
Scan
Nietzscheism
Langston Hughes
24. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Richard Wright
Countee Cullen
Darwinism
Emile Zola
25. 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
Ballad
Aphorisms
Melting Pot
26. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Bret Harte
Maya Angelou
Stanza
Frank Norris
27. 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
Thomas Morton
Atavism
American Adam
Romanticism
28. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Claude McKay
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Transcendentalism
29. Well-known humorists.
The 3 primary literary genres
Samuel Sewall
Thomas Morton
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
30. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
31. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Drama
Erica Jong
Robert Lowell
32. 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
James Weldon Johnson
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
James Baldwin
33. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
The Day of Doom
Mary Wilkins Freeman
John Steinbeck
Jonathan Edwards
34. 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
Three main colonial era poets
Countee Cullen
Racialism
Carl Sandburg
35. 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
Puritan Poetry
Thomas Paine
Robert Lowell
Lyric Poem
36. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Racialism
Maya Angelou
Nativism
Countee Cullen
37. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Erica Jong
Norman Mailer
Henry David Thoreau
Ballad
38. 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.
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Kate Chopin
Toni Morrison
James Thurbur
39. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Norman Mailer
Toni Morrison
Theodore Dreiser
Drama
40. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Vachel Lindsay
Thomas Jefferson
John Smith
41. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Calvinism
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Zora Neal Hurston
W.E.B Du Bois
42. (Colonial Period) One of the most brilliant of American thinkers. Theologian and philosopher; vigorous defender of Calvinistic orthodoxy at the end of the Puritan era. Influenced major nineteenth century writers such as Emerson - Hawthorne - Melville
Zora Neal Hurston
Sarah Orne Jewett
Jonathan Edwards
Edith Wharton
43. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Iambic Pentameter
John Winthrop
Allen Ginsberg
Romanticism
44. 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.
Jonathan Edwards
Ballad
Frederick Douglass
Nathaniel Hawthorne
45. All events follow natural laws.
Nativism
The Declaration of Independence
Toni Morrison
Determinism
46. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Anne Sexton
Sylvia Plath
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Rhyme Scheme
47. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Carl Sandburg
Anne Sexton
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
48. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Sylvia Plath
Edith Wharton
William Bradford
John Winthrop
49. 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.
Ezra Pound
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Realism
Anne Sexton
50. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
The 3 primary literary genres
Thomas Jefferson
James Fenimore Cooper
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century