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CLEP American Literature
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1. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Edward Teller
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
William Faulkner
James Baldwin
2. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
American Adam
Jack London
Ralph Ellison
Mayflower Compact
3. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Frank Norris
Mayflower Compact
The Declaration of Independence
Gwendolyn Brooks
4. 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
Robert Frost
Flannery O'Connor
Robert Lowell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Thomas Paine
Epic Story
Three main colonial era poets
Anne Sexton
6. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Thomas Morton
Romanticism
Poetry
Jonathan Edwards
7. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Drama
Bret Harte
Jack Kerouac
Sonnet
8. 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.
Beat Writers
Narrative Poem
e.e cummings
Toni Morrison
9. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Darwinism
Three main colonial era poets
Robert Lowell
Racialism
10. 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
Naturalism
Verse
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Byrd
11. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jean Toomer
W.E.B Du Bois
The 3 primary literary genres
12. 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
Romanticism
Gothic
Zora Neal Hurston
Gwendolyn Brooks
13. 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
Thomas Jefferson
Bret Harte
William Byrd
Iambic Pentameter
14. 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.
Claude McKay
Broadside
Jack London
Gothic
15. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Phillip Roth
Stanza
Alice Walker
16. 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.
Allen Ginsberg
Free Verse
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Refrain
17. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Ellison
Robert Frost
James Thurbur
18. 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.
Social Darwinism
Edward Teller
Robert Lowell
Richard Wright
19. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
J.D Salinger
William Bradford
Scan
F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Rhyme Scheme
Romanticism
Nativism
J.D Salinger
21. Wrote 'Grapes of Wrath -' 'Of Mice and Men -' and 'East of Eden -' and 'Winter of Our Discontent.' Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature - Pulitzer and and the National Book Award.
John Steinbeck
Robert Lowell
Alice Walker
Saul Bellow
22. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
Henry David Thoreau
Scientism
23. (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
William Bradford
Calvinism
Samuel Sewall
Willa Cather
24. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Jack London
Loss of Traditional Values
Walt Whitman
Prose
25. '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
Edward Teller
Ernest Hemmingway
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Calvinism
26. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Norman Mailer
Cotton Mather
27. 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
Vachel Lindsay
Puritan Poetry
Stephen Crane
Henry David Thoreau
28. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
American Adam
Atavism
Allen Ginsberg
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
29. 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
Edgar Allen Poe
Rhythm
Stanza
Imagist Poetry
30. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Loaded Words
Wonders of the Invisible World
Transcendental Club
Flannery O'Connor
31. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Edward Teller
Maya Angelou
Richard Wright
Modernism
32. 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.'
Jack London
Mayflower Compact
American Adam
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
33. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Broadside
Lyric Poem
Verse
Monologue
34. (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
Three main colonial era poets
e.e cummings
Racialism
35. A false science that argued tat different human races possessed distinguishing traits that determined their particular behavior and achievement in society.
Racialism
Loaded Words
James Thurbur
Beat Writers
36. Prose - Poetry - Drama
The 3 primary literary genres
Frank Norris
Countee Cullen
John Smith
37. 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.
Nativism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Realism
Countee Cullen
38. 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.
Ezra Pound
W.E.B Du Bois
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Ellison
39. 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.
Three main colonial era poets
Free Verse
Zora Neal Hurston
Carl Sandburg
40. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Edgar Allen Poe
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Foot
Wonders of the Invisible World
41. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Jack London
Prose
Edith Wharton
Narrative Poem
42. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Zora Neal Hurston
Loaded Words
Polemic
Three main colonial era poets
43. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Phillip Roth
Blank Verse
Henry James
Jean Toomer
44. 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
Modernism
James Fenimore Cooper
Transcendentalism
Robert Frost
45. 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.
Booker T. Washington
Drama
Polemic
Atavism
46. 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
Walt Whitman
Erica Jong
T.S Eliot
Naturalism
47. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Wonders of the Invisible World
Foot
Theodore Dreiser
Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. Wrote 'Songs of Jamaica' - Poetry and 'Harlem Shadows' (first great literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance. Much of his poetry evokes the rich heritage of Jamaica.
Jean Toomer
Broadside
Dorthy Parker
Claude McKay
49. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
J.D Salinger
Melting Pot
Darwinism
Poetry
50. 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
James Fenimore Cooper
Edgar Allen Poe
Walt Whitman
Three main colonial era poets
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