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CLEP American Literature
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1. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Jack London
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Benjamin Franklin
Walt Whitman
2. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Thomas Paine
F. Scott Fitzgerald
James Baldwin
Langston Hughes
3. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Poetry
Frederick Douglass
Cotton Mather
Sylvia Plath
4. 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
Ezra Pound
Henry James
Anne Sexton
Carl Sandburg
5. First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Novel focus on black cultural identity in contemporary America. Wrote 'The Bluest Eye -' 'Tar Baby -' and 'Beloved'
Toni Morrison
Atavism
Scan
Aphorisms
6. (Colonial Period) Stands in direct opposition to the principles - personalities and literary styles of William Bradford and John Winthrop. Did not come to settle the land and establish God's Kingdom - but to trade beaver pelts and live pleasantly. Es
Thomas Morton
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Washington Irving
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
7. 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
Social Darwinism
Booker T. Washington
Broadside
8. Used to describe literature that was pandered to the polite - refined - and delicate elements of society. Denied the unsavory underbelly of life.
Iambic Pentameter
Abigail Adams
Willa Cather
Genteel Tradition
9. 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.
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Gothic
Aphorisms
Richard Wright
10. A stanza.
Jack Kerouac
Maya Angelou
Naturalism
Verse
11. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Robert Lowell
Atavism
e.e cummings
Naturalism
12. 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.
Romanticism
Imagist Poetry
The Day of Doom
William S. Burroughs
13. 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.
Frederick Douglass
William S. Burroughs
John Steinbeck
Zora Neal Hurston
14. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Broadside
Darwinism
Edgar Allen Poe
John Steinbeck
15. 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
Rhythm
Henry James
Willa Cather
Imagist Poetry
16. 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
Aphorisms
Abigail Adams
Thomas Paine
Ballad
17. 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
Rhyme
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Ralph Ellison
Henry James
18. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Imagist Poetry
Lyric Poem
James Thurbur
John Winthrop
19. 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.
Determinism
Claude McKay
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Loaded Words
20. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Atavism
Jean Toomer
Benjamin Franklin
Nietzscheism
21. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Maya Angelou
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William S. Burroughs
Ralph Ellison
22. (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
Genteel Tradition
Jean Toomer
James Thurbur
23. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Robert Frost
Imagist Poetry
Lyres
John Smith
24. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
The Declaration of Independence
Richard Wright
William Faulkner
Emile Zola
25. 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.
T.S Eliot
Free Verse
Frederick Douglass
Jack London
26. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Claude McKay
Emile Zola
Theodore Dreiser
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
27. A literary argument that aims to change public opinion rather than entertain.
Scientism
Sylvia Plath
Polemic
Carl Sandburg
28. Produces ribald - exuberant - feminist poems - novels and essays. Most famous novel is 'Fear of Flying.'
Saul Bellow
Erica Jong
Henry James
F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. 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.
Jack London
Booker T. Washington
Kate Chopin
John Steinbeck
30. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Ernest Hemmingway
W.E.B Du Bois
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Mayflower Compact
31. 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.'
Ralph Ellison
Thomas Paine
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Erica Jong
32. 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
Broadside
Atavism
W.E.B Du Bois
33. 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
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Narrative Poem
Free Verse
Cotton Mather
34. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
J.D Salinger
Nietzscheism
James Weldon Johnson
Atavism
35. 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
Thomas Paine
Stephen Crane
Countee Cullen
Ballad
36. All events follow natural laws.
Determinism
Transcendentalism
Dorthy Parker
Lyric Poem
37. 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
Norman Mailer
Washington Irving
Edward Teller
Flannery O'Connor
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
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Stanza
Meter
William Bradford
39. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
T.S Eliot
Naturalism
Loss of Traditional Values
Samuel Sewall
40. 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.
Gothic
Realism
Loss of Traditional Values
Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Toni Morrison
Abigail Adams
e.e cummings
Allegory
42. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
Racialism
Social Darwinism
Erica Jong
43. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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44. 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.
Refrain
Langston Hughes
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Mayflower Compact
45. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Vachel Lindsay
American Adam
Gwendolyn Brooks
Zora Neal Hurston
46. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Romanticism
Poetry
Frederick Douglass
e.e cummings
47. She holds a unique place in American history as both the wife of one president and the mother of another. In her own right - she was an ardent American patriot. Her perseverance during the American Revolution kept her family together and enabled her
Abigail Adams
Erica Jong
Darwinism
Henry David Thoreau
48. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The 3 primary literary genres
Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Lee Masters
49. 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
Emily Dickinson
The Day of Doom
Washington Irving
Transcendental Club
50. 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
Transcendental Club
Herman Melville
Nativism
Modernism