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CLEP American Literature
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1. Wrote 'The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.' Escaped slave that became one o f the most effective orators of his day - an influential newspaper writer - a militant abolitionist - and a famous diplomat.
Verse
Frederick Douglass
James Baldwin
Samuel Sewall
2. 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.
Edgar Lee Masters
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Romanticism
Claude McKay
3. 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
Loss of Traditional Values
John Steinbeck
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The 3 primary literary genres
4. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Henry David Thoreau
William Bradford
Frederick Douglass
Stanza
5. 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.
The Day of Doom
Zora Neal Hurston
Scientism
Richard Wright
6. Words that carry a strong emotional overtones.
Jack London
Loaded Words
John Winthrop
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
7. 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.
Thomas Paine
Kate Chopin
The 3 primary literary genres
Jean Toomer
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.
e.e cummings
Mayflower Compact
Lyric Poem
Henry David Thoreau
9. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Drama
Mayflower Compact
William S. Burroughs
Beat Writers
10. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Nativism
Henry David Thoreau
Jack London
Phillip Roth
11. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Emily Dickinson
Jack Kerouac
Jack London
James Thurbur
12. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Modernism
Scientism
James Fenimore Cooper
Frank Norris
13. (Colonial Period) First writer of American Literature. Wrote 'The Generall Historie of Virginia - New England - and The Summer Isles.' Archetypal American.
James Thurbur
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Langston Hughes
John Smith
14. (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
William Byrd
J.D Salinger
Puritan Poetry
John Adams
15. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Melting Pot
e.e cummings
Scientism
Emile Zola
16. Ezra Pound and T.S Eliot
John Winthrop
Ballad
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Gothic
17. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Genteel Tradition
Foot
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jean Toomer
18. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Verse
Thomas Jefferson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nathaniel Hawthorne
19. Unrhymed poetry Captures natural rhythm of speech.
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Theodore Dreiser
Blank Verse
W.E.B Du Bois
20. 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.'
Genteel Tradition
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Anne Sexton
Free Verse
21. 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.
Toni Morrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Zora Neal Hurston
Thomas Paine
22. 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
Theodore Dreiser
Beat Movement
Mayflower Compact
23. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Iambic Pentameter
Sylvia Plath
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
James Baldwin
24. 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
Jean Toomer
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Ballad
25. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Prose
Loss of Traditional Values
Calvinism
William Byrd
26. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Rhyme Scheme
Epic Story
Jack Kerouac
Determinism
27. Well-known humorists.
Ralph Ellison
John Smith
Abigail Adams
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
28. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Scientism
John Winthrop
Determinism
Rhyme
29. 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'
Loss of Traditional Values
Prose
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Atavism
30. A regular pattern of words that end with the same sound.
Henry David Thoreau
Allen Ginsberg
Rhyme Scheme
Sylvia Plath
31. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Narrative Poem
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Realism
Ballad
32. 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 Baldwin
Scan
Walt Whitman
Gothic
33. 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
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Imagist Poetry
Beat Writers
Gwendolyn Brooks
34. 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
John Winthrop
Sonnet
W.E.B Du Bois
35. 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.
Claude McKay
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jean Toomer
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
36. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Scan
Transcendental Club
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Ballad
37. 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
Erica Jong
Mary Wilkins Freeman
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
38. (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
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Nativism
Narrative Poem
William Bradford
39. 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'
Sylvia Plath
Meter
Determinism
William S. Burroughs
40. 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
Ezra Pound
William Faulkner
Darwinism
Transcendentalism
41. 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
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
James Fenimore Cooper
Calvinism
Loaded Words
42. 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
Beat Writers
Free Verse
Calvinism
43. Ranked as top American novelist - even though few of his contemporaries recognized his genius. Moby Dick is considered to be America's greatest prose epic. It is also top contender for best American novel. Wrote the first great romance about the Sout
Puritan Poetry
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Theodore Dreiser
44. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Ezra Pound
Genteel Tradition
Gwendolyn Brooks
Iambic Pentameter
45. Wished to return to more primitive principles - to simplicity - sobriety - religious earnestness - and personal self-control. Aim was to purify church of England from 'Popery' - Persecuted harshly by Charles I and Archbishop of Canterbury William Lau
T.S Eliot
Edward Teller
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Determinism
46. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
James Weldon Johnson
Allegory
Richard Wright
Jonathan Edwards
47. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Emile Zola
Thomas Morton
Rhythm
Nathaniel Hawthorne
48. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Foot
Willa Cather
Refrain
Flannery O'Connor
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anne Sexton
John Adams
The Day of Doom
50. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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