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CLEP American Literature
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1. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
William S. Burroughs
Jonathan Edwards
James Thurbur
Edgar Allen Poe
2. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Alice Walker
W.E.B Du Bois
Maya Angelou
Beat Writers
3. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Lyric Poem
Epic Story
Emily Dickinson
Phillip Roth
4. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Allen Ginsberg
Modernism
Henry James
Sylvia Plath
5. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Anne Sexton
Robert Frost
Darwinism
Henry James
6. 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.
Samuel Sewall
Dorthy Parker
Jonathan Edwards
Nathaniel Hawthorne
7. 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
Naturalism
J.D Salinger
Saul Bellow
Thomas Paine
8. 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
Transcendental Club
Richard Wright
Darwinism
Mary Wilkins Freeman
9. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Transcendentalism
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edward Teller
Norman Mailer
10. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Mayflower Compact
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allegory
Saul Bellow
11. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Rhythm
Persona
Jack London
Maya Angelou
12. 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
Flannery O'Connor
Herman Melville
Naturalism
Imagist Poetry
13. 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.
Walt Whitman
Realism
Vachel Lindsay
Narrative Poem
14. 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
Romanticism
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Drama
Carl Sandburg
15. 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.
Kate Chopin
Theodore Dreiser
Emily Dickinson
Modernism
16. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Iambic Pentameter
Thomas Morton
Refrain
James Baldwin
17. (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
Samuel Sewall
Calvinism
William Faulkner
Mary Wilkins Freeman
18. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Lee Masters
Lyric Poem
Phillip Roth
19. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Puritan Poetry
Phillip Roth
Monologue
The 3 primary literary genres
20. 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.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
John Adams
William Byrd
Sarah Orne Jewett
21. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Emile Zola
Naturalism
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jack London
22. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Edith Wharton
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frank Norris
Samuel Sewall
23. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Loss of Traditional Values
Washington Irving
Vachel Lindsay
24. 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
Meter
Cotton Mather
Saul Bellow
Edgar Allen Poe
25. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Genteel Tradition
Lyric Poem
Persona
James Weldon Johnson
26. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
John Adams
Jack London
Romanticism
Benjamin Franklin
27. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Free Verse
Aphorisms
Puritan Poetry
Stephen Crane
28. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Mayflower Compact
Bret Harte
John Adams
The 3 primary literary genres
29. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Determinism
Loaded Words
Richard Wright
Racialism
30. Well-known humorists.
Sonnet
John Smith
Rhyme
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
31. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Henry David Thoreau
Abigail Adams
Iambic Pentameter
The Declaration of Independence
32. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Narrative Poem
Anne Sexton
Ezra Pound
Edgar Allen Poe
33. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Darwinism
Emile Zola
Stanza
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
34. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Robert Lowell
The Declaration of Independence
Stephen Crane
Edith Wharton
35. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Samuel Sewall
American Adam
e.e cummings
Thomas Morton
36. 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
Beat Movement
Herman Melville
Rhyme Scheme
Abigail Adams
37. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Benjamin Franklin
Washington Irving
Prose
38. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
William Byrd
W.E.B Du Bois
Polemic
Anne Sexton
39. 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.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
William Bradford
Jean Toomer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
40. (Colonial Period) Began 'The History of New England' aboard the Arbella in 1630. Lead 2 -000 English emigrant to Massachusetts Bay. Made daily journal-style entries until his death. Intended it to be an account of his long governorship. Style is pla
John Winthrop
Genteel Tradition
Verse
Flannery O'Connor
41. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anne Sexton
Zora Neal Hurston
e.e cummings
42. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Blank Verse
Ernest Hemmingway
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Emily Dickinson
43. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Toni Morrison
Richard Wright
William Byrd
Blank Verse
44. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Sonnet
Scan
Determinism
Booker T. Washington
45. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
J.D Salinger
Thomas Jefferson
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Sonnet
46. 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
James Fenimore Cooper
Loss of Traditional Values
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Monologue
47. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Social Darwinism
Langston Hughes
48. '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
J.D Salinger
Cotton Mather
W.E.B Du Bois
Ernest Hemmingway
49. A stanza.
Verse
Drama
Narrative Poem
Atavism
50. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Countee Cullen
Romanticism
Frederick Douglass
Broadside