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CLEP American Literature
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1. (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
Darwinism
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
J.D Salinger
Puritan Poetry
2. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Atavism
Melting Pot
Loss of Traditional Values
Nietzscheism
3. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Prose
Jack London
Modernism
Thomas Morton
4. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Determinism
Poetry
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
e.e cummings
5. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
Emile Zola
The 3 primary literary genres
Rhythm
Cotton Mather
6. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Edith Wharton
Foot
Ballad
Booker T. Washington
7. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Beat Writers
Stanza
Alice Walker
Nativism
8. The primacy of science over religious - mythical - or spiritual interpretations of life.
Scientism
Erica Jong
William Bradford
Ballad
9. 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
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Rhyme
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
10. American novelist - essayist - social critic - painter and spoken performer. Most of his works are autobiographical. Frequently experimented with drugs. He wrote the 'Naked Lunch' and the 'Cities of Red Night'
Phillip Roth
T.S Eliot
William S. Burroughs
Langston Hughes
11. 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
Samuel Sewall
Alice Walker
Modernism
Naturalism
12. Involves a speaker who addresses an unseen audience. Usually takes place at a crucial moment in the speaker's life.
Edgar Allen Poe
Monologue
Aphorisms
Rhythm
13. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Walt Whitman
Phillip Roth
Anne Sexton
14. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Three main colonial era poets
Loaded Words
Saul Bellow
Jack Kerouac
15. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Transcendentalism
James Weldon Johnson
Iambic Pentameter
American Adam
16. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Monologue
Willa Cather
Loaded Words
Cotton Mather
17. 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
John Steinbeck
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Alice Walker
Transcendental Club
18. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Prose
American Adam
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jack Kerouac
19. Well-known humorists.
Stanza
Persona
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Rhyme
20. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Claude McKay
Edgar Allen Poe
Verse
Loss of Traditional Values
21. Anne Bradstreet - Michael Wigglesworth - Edward Taylor
Emile Zola
Scientism
Rhyme
Three main colonial era poets
22. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Ballad
Realism
Rhyme Scheme
23. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Iambic Pentameter
Emile Zola
Rhyme Scheme
Beat Writers
24. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Abigail Adams
Beat Writers
Erica Jong
Scan
25. (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
Calvinism
Benjamin Franklin
Aphorisms
Saul Bellow
26. 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.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Cotton Mather
Gothic
Washington Irving
27. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Blank Verse
Calvinism
Foot
Ralph Ellison
28. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Free Verse
Maya Angelou
Washington Irving
Lyres
29. 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.
Rhyme Scheme
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maya Angelou
Harriet Beecher Stowe
30. (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
Henry James
Sarah Orne Jewett
Refrain
31. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Samuel Sewall
Dorthy Parker
Drama
Social Darwinism
32. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
Monologue
Narrative Poem
Nativism
Melting Pot
33. 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
Verse
Willa Cather
Carl Sandburg
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
34. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Washington Irving
Phillip Roth
Epic Story
Benjamin Franklin
35. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Transcendental Club
Free Verse
Prose
Stanza
36. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Romanticism
Blank Verse
Henry David Thoreau
Ballad
37. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
James Thurbur
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Erica Jong
W.E.B Du Bois
38. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
John Adams
Ralph Ellison
The 3 primary literary genres
Nativism
39. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Jean Toomer
Alice Walker
Scan
Rhyme Scheme
40. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Bret Harte
Gwendolyn Brooks
William Bradford
Ezra Pound
41. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
John Winthrop
Mayflower Compact
Modernism
Edward Teller
42. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Samuel Sewall
Transcendental Club
Benjamin Franklin
Racialism
43. All events follow natural laws.
Darwinism
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Determinism
Saul Bellow
44. A line or group of lines repeated at the end of a poem or song. Refrains reinforce the main point and create musical effects.
Refrain
Maya Angelou
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
45. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
Poetry
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Erica Jong
Scan
46. 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
Emily Dickinson
Romanticism
Verse
Transcendentalism
47. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Ezra Pound
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Edgar Allen Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
48. 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.
Allegory
Benjamin Franklin
Nativism
Lyric Poem
49. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Blank Verse
Anne Sexton
John Adams
Maya Angelou
50. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Sonnet
Monologue
Iambic Pentameter
Mayflower Compact
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