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CLEP American Literature
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1. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Booker T. Washington
Jonathan Edwards
Emily Dickinson
Drama
2. 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
Nativism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Free Verse
Genteel Tradition
3. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Benjamin Franklin
J.D Salinger
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Allen Ginsberg
4. (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
Imagist Poetry
William Bradford
Booker T. Washington
Langston Hughes
5. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Iambic Pentameter
William Byrd
Thomas Jefferson
Sylvia Plath
6. 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
Refrain
Samuel Sewall
Racialism
7. 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.
Blank Verse
Stephen Crane
John Smith
John Steinbeck
8. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Rhyme
Thomas Jefferson
Lyres
James Baldwin
9. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Rhyme Scheme
Mary Wilkins Freeman
John Smith
Polemic
10. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Abigail Adams
Maya Angelou
Richard Wright
William Byrd
11. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Benjamin Franklin
Rhyme Scheme
The Day of Doom
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
12. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Willa Cather
Allen Ginsberg
William Byrd
Flannery O'Connor
13. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Darwinism
Walt Whitman
Henry James
Thomas Jefferson
14. Father of American Literature - First American writer to achieve an international reputation. Rip Van Winkle (antihero). Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Devil and Tom Walker. Was 50 years old before his real name appeared on any of his books. Used alias
Zora Neal Hurston
Washington Irving
Rhyme
Lyric Poem
15. 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
Abigail Adams
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Maya Angelou
16. 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
Iambic Pentameter
Henry David Thoreau
Jean Toomer
Imagist Poetry
17. (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
Monologue
John Adams
Erica Jong
18. 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
Bret Harte
Transcendental Club
Loss of Traditional Values
Richard Wright
19. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Iambic Pentameter
Mayflower Compact
Jean Toomer
Modernism
20. 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
Saul Bellow
Genteel Tradition
James Thurbur
21. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Ernest Hemmingway
Frederick Douglass
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Byrd
22. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Drama
Cotton Mather
Flannery O'Connor
Edward Teller
23. 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
American Adam
Prose
Darwinism
24. 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.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Edith Wharton
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Norman Mailer
25. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Polemic
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Edgar Allen Poe
Abigail Adams
26. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Richard Wright
Beat Writers
Norman Mailer
Sylvia Plath
27. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Samuel Sewall
Kate Chopin
Gwendolyn Brooks
28. Clever - memorable sayings.
Aphorisms
Langston Hughes
The Day of Doom
Naturalism
29. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Robert Frost
Epic Story
Countee Cullen
Allen Ginsberg
30. 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
Calvinism
Erica Jong
Theodore Dreiser
James Fenimore Cooper
31. 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
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Romanticism
The Day of Doom
William Bradford
32. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Meter
Willa Cather
Loss of Traditional Values
Jonathan Edwards
33. Prose - Poetry - Drama
The Day of Doom
The 3 primary literary genres
Edgar Lee Masters
Rhyme Scheme
34. (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
Lyric Poem
Poetry
Calvinism
Wonders of the Invisible World
35. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
Phillip Roth
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
J.D Salinger
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
36. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
37. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Transcendentalism
Rhythm
Loaded Words
Henry David Thoreau
38. (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
Jonathan Edwards
Romanticism
Maya Angelou
Imagist Poetry
39. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Emily Dickinson
Jack Kerouac
Realism
American Adam
40. Characterized by: Ordinary Language - Free Verse - Concentrated Word Pictures - Very specific words and phrases - Advanced by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell; also utilized by Robert Frost
Imagist Poetry
Langston Hughes
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Phillip Roth
41. 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.
Lyric Poem
Mayflower Compact
Polemic
Samuel Sewall
42. 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
Transcendental Club
Prose
Jack Kerouac
Henry James
43. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Blank Verse
Abigail Adams
Henry James
Vachel Lindsay
44. '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
Ernest Hemmingway
Wonders of the Invisible World
Lyres
Edwin Arlington Robinson
45. 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.
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
William Faulkner
Emile Zola
Realism
46. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Sonnet
Thomas Paine
Gwendolyn Brooks
Bret Harte
47. 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
Lyres
T.S Eliot
48. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Theodore Dreiser
Edward Teller
Maya Angelou
W.E.B Du Bois
49. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
John Smith
Frank Norris
Bret Harte
Robert Frost
50. Imagist Poet - Wrote 'In a Station of the Metro -' ' The Pisan Cantos -' 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberly -' and 'Mauberly.' Modeled 'Cantos' after Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' - Infamous traitor; Staunch supporter of Mussolini during WWII. Didn't speak for the
Maya Angelou
James Baldwin
Ezra Pound
Toni Morrison