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CLEP American Literature
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1. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Ralph Ellison
Narrative Poem
Frank Norris
Thomas Jefferson
2. 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
W.E.B Du Bois
Refrain
Edgar Allen Poe
Atavism
3. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Zora Neal Hurston
Racialism
W.E.B Du Bois
Loaded Words
4. (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
Cotton Mather
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Theodore Dreiser
Lyres
5. '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
Edith Wharton
Three main colonial era poets
Stephen Crane
Ernest Hemmingway
6. 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.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Refrain
The Day of Doom
Thomas Jefferson
7. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Naturalism
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Lowell
Gwendolyn Brooks
8. 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.
Foot
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ezra Pound
Countee Cullen
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
Vachel Lindsay
e.e cummings
William Bradford
Loaded Words
10. 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
Phillip Roth
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thomas Paine
William Bradford
11. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Aphorisms
Blank Verse
Puritan Poetry
Rhythm
12. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
The Day of Doom
Ralph Ellison
Benjamin Franklin
Countee Cullen
13. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Meter
Verse
Countee Cullen
Drama
14. 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
Edward Teller
Edgar Lee Masters
Ralph Ellison
Dorthy Parker
15. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Darwinism
James Thurbur
Sonnet
16. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Iambic Pentameter
Narrative Poem
Saul Bellow
Jack London
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
Three main colonial era poets
Calvinism
Alice Walker
Henry David Thoreau
18. 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
Edgar Lee Masters
Dorthy Parker
Stanza
Romanticism
19. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Monologue
Foot
Robert Lowell
Loaded Words
20. Well-known humorists.
The Declaration of Independence
Robert Lowell
Lyres
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
21. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Persona
Theodore Dreiser
Robert Lowell
Stanza
22. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
The 3 primary literary genres
Emile Zola
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
23. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Phillip Roth
e.e cummings
Richard Wright
Scan
24. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Prose
Persona
Narrative Poem
Cotton Mather
25. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Ballad
Nietzscheism
Frederick Douglass
Booker T. Washington
26. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Melting Pot
Zora Neal Hurston
J.D Salinger
Racialism
27. 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
Racialism
Herman Melville
The Declaration of Independence
28. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Theodore Dreiser
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Willa Cather
Prose
29. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Melting Pot
Abigail Adams
William Faulkner
Determinism
30. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Countee Cullen
Herman Melville
Cotton Mather
James Weldon Johnson
31. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
T.S Eliot
Epic Story
Loaded Words
Modernism
32. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Nietzscheism
Erica Jong
American Adam
Samuel Sewall
33. 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
Frank Norris
Henry David Thoreau
James Thurbur
Zora Neal Hurston
34. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Genteel Tradition
Saul Bellow
James Baldwin
Alice Walker
35. 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'
Foot
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Emile Zola
Edith Wharton
36. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Abigail Adams
Lyric Poem
Countee Cullen
37. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Racialism
Vachel Lindsay
T.S Eliot
Benjamin Franklin
38. (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
Sarah Orne Jewett
John Winthrop
Emily Dickinson
Erica Jong
39. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Robert Lowell
Broadside
Prose
Henry James
40. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Anne Sexton
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Iambic Pentameter
Mayflower Compact
41. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Foot
Persona
Beat Movement
Edgar Allen Poe
42. 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.
Ezra Pound
e.e cummings
Richard Wright
Epic Story
43. All events follow natural laws.
Determinism
Sonnet
Sarah Orne Jewett
Jonathan Edwards
44. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Foot
Emily Dickinson
Blank Verse
Nietzscheism
45. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Jean Toomer
Rhyme
Toni Morrison
46. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Aphorisms
Theodore Dreiser
Nathaniel Hawthorne
47. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Booker T. Washington
Narrative Poem
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Saul Bellow
48. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Beat Movement
John Adams
Vachel Lindsay
Jack London
49. Clever - memorable sayings.
Racialism
Darwinism
Mayflower Compact
Aphorisms
50. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
e.e cummings
Drama
Wonders of the Invisible World
Langston Hughes
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