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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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.
Sylvia Plath
Aphorisms
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Nativism
2. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Aphorisms
Narrative Poem
Ezra Pound
Abigail Adams
3. (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
Poetry
Edgar Lee Masters
Cotton Mather
Claude McKay
4. Wrote 'The Red Badge of Courage' and 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets -' and 'The Open Boat.' Red Badge of Courage is considered the first modern war novel. Work is celebrated for its images and symbolism. Work is often described as impressionist due t
Edgar Allen Poe
Thomas Paine
Stephen Crane
Rhyme
5. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
James Weldon Johnson
Bret Harte
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Stephen Crane
6. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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7. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Claude McKay
Ballad
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Booker T. Washington
8. Book of feline poems - 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats -' formed the basis of the Broadway hit 'Cats.' Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Published 'The Waste-Land' which became the most famous poem of the first half of the 20th Centur
Genteel Tradition
T.S Eliot
Rhyme
Determinism
9. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Thomas Jefferson
Epic Story
Rhyme Scheme
Prose
10. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Frank Norris
Washington Irving
W.E.B Du Bois
11. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Thomas Jefferson
Social Darwinism
12. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Frank Norris
Washington Irving
Blank Verse
Epic Story
13. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Edward Teller
Beat Writers
Beat Movement
James Fenimore Cooper
14. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Nietzscheism
Edgar Lee Masters
15. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Abigail Adams
Naturalism
Aphorisms
Benjamin Franklin
16. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mayflower Compact
Vachel Lindsay
Langston Hughes
17. 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
William Byrd
Aphorisms
Emily Dickinson
Meter
18. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Meter
Calvinism
Ballad
Frederick Douglass
19. 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.
e.e cummings
Claude McKay
William Faulkner
Verse
20. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Beat Writers
Lyric Poem
J.D Salinger
Edith Wharton
21. 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
Jonathan Edwards
Jack London
Stephen Crane
22. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Maya Angelou
Three main colonial era poets
Refrain
Langston Hughes
23. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Langston Hughes
Aphorisms
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Beat Movement
24. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Modernism
Willa Cather
Stephen Crane
25. (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
Sarah Orne Jewett
Gothic
Maya Angelou
Puritan Poetry
26. 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
Foot
Norman Mailer
Transcendental Club
Willa Cather
27. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Toni Morrison
Racialism
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Stanza
28. A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's - in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature - and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter - intuiti
Transcendentalism
Alice Walker
Loaded Words
Saul Bellow
29. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Flannery O'Connor
Gothic
Henry David Thoreau
30. Pilgrim's constitution. Shaped the politics - religion - and social behavior of the first settlers. Eventually influenced the shape - style and content of the U.S Constitution. William Bradford was famous for being one of the authors and signers.
Mayflower Compact
Phillip Roth
Claude McKay
Narrative Poem
31. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Jefferson
Allegory
Norman Mailer
32. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
William Bradford
Emily Dickinson
John Steinbeck
William Byrd
33. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Samuel Sewall
Nietzscheism
Gwendolyn Brooks
34. 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.
William Byrd
The Day of Doom
Calvinism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
35. 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.
William Faulkner
Scientism
American Adam
Herman Melville
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.'
Countee Cullen
Maya Angelou
Beat Writers
Drama
37. 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.
Atavism
Genteel Tradition
Anne Sexton
Washington Irving
38. 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
American Adam
Jean Toomer
Darwinism
39. 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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abigail Adams
Calvinism
Stephen Crane
40. 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.
Gothic
Racialism
Free Verse
Jean Toomer
41. 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.'
Epic Story
Willa Cather
James Thurbur
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
42. 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
Allen Ginsberg
Willa Cather
Thomas Paine
Three main colonial era poets
43. 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
Walt Whitman
Thomas Paine
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Beat Movement
44. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
James Baldwin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maya Angelou
Bret Harte
45. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Stanza
Vachel Lindsay
Ballad
Herman Melville
46. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Mayflower Compact
Polemic
Three main colonial era poets
Robert Frost
47. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Jack Kerouac
Sonnet
Norman Mailer
Washington Irving
48. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Genteel Tradition
Lyres
Jack Kerouac
The Declaration of Independence
49. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
John Adams
Puritan Poetry
Jack London
Foot
50. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Genteel Tradition
Loaded Words
Imagist Poetry
F. Scott Fitzgerald