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CLEP American Literature
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1. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Erica Jong
Zora Neal Hurston
Rhyme
Nativism
2. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Poetry
Emile Zola
Foot
Lyric Poem
3. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
John Adams
James Weldon Johnson
Polemic
Loaded Words
4. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Langston Hughes
Nietzscheism
Claude McKay
Sylvia Plath
5. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Allegory
Mayflower Compact
e.e cummings
Stephen Crane
6. 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
Gwendolyn Brooks
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Countee Cullen
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
7. Written by Cottonn Mather - to justify the execution of 19 women during the Salem Witch Trials.
William S. Burroughs
Ballad
Theodore Dreiser
Wonders of the Invisible World
8. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Alice Walker
Loss of Traditional Values
Gwendolyn Brooks
Emile Zola
9. 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.
Transcendental Club
e.e cummings
Robert Frost
William Faulkner
10. Local Colorist Great Niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
Norman Mailer
John Adams
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Realism
William Bradford
Herman Melville
Modernism
12. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Stanza
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Meter
13. 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.
American Adam
Racialism
William Faulkner
Sylvia Plath
14. (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
Bret Harte
Booker T. Washington
American Adam
15. A story in poetic form. Has plot. characters and theme.
e.e cummings
Narrative Poem
Bret Harte
Foot
16. (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
Jonathan Edwards
Nativism
Puritan Poetry
Herman Melville
17. 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
Richard Wright
Racialism
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Bret Harte
18. 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
John Smith
Gothic
Transcendentalism
19. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Broadside
Nativism
W.E.B Du Bois
20. (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
Allen Ginsberg
Meter
Langston Hughes
Thomas Morton
21. 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
Thomas Morton
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
22. 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
Carl Sandburg
Realism
Norman Mailer
W.E.B Du Bois
23. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Jack Kerouac
Herman Melville
Vachel Lindsay
Transcendental Club
24. '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
Jack Kerouac
Melting Pot
Zora Neal Hurston
25. Well-known humorists.
James Baldwin
Benjamin Franklin
Iambic Pentameter
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
26. 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.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Transcendentalism
Countee Cullen
Harriet Beecher Stowe
27. 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.
Rhyme Scheme
Gothic
Broadside
Racialism
28. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
T.S Eliot
Prose
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ralph Ellison
29. 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.
Henry James
Alice Walker
Saul Bellow
Mayflower Compact
30. Won the Nobel Prize - Novels concentrate on the turmoil of modern Jewish life.
Langston Hughes
Washington Irving
Saul Bellow
Persona
31. Wrote 'The House of Mirth -' and 'The Age of Innocence' most famous for 'Ethan Frome' Noted use of indirection and allusion. First women to win a Pulitzer for 'The Age of Innocence' Main themes were upper-class life and the constraints it placed on b
Edith Wharton
William Byrd
Lyric Poem
John Winthrop
32. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
James Baldwin
Robert Frost
Countee Cullen
Monologue
33. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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34. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Emily Dickinson
Foot
Saul Bellow
Scan
35. 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
Gwendolyn Brooks
Drama
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
36. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Determinism
Maya Angelou
Beat Movement
Erica Jong
37. 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
Jonathan Edwards
Naturalism
James Thurbur
James Fenimore Cooper
38. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
Erica Jong
Broadside
Jean Toomer
Phillip Roth
39. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Paine
Norman Mailer
Carl Sandburg
Thomas Jefferson
40. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Iambic Pentameter
Phillip Roth
James Baldwin
Sylvia Plath
41. A stanza.
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemmingway
Robert Lowell
Verse
42. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Samuel Sewall
Lyric Poem
Alice Walker
Modernism
43. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Edward Teller
The Day of Doom
Rhythm
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
44. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Phillip Roth
The Declaration of Independence
Bret Harte
Broadside
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.
Theodore Dreiser
Allegory
Allen Ginsberg
Atavism
46. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Broadside
Frederick Douglass
Countee Cullen
e.e cummings
47. (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
Imagist Poetry
Calvinism
Aphorisms
Narrative Poem
48. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Maya Angelou
Vachel Lindsay
Jean Toomer
Scan
49. Most prominent black leader of his day. Wrote 'Up From Slavery'
Bret Harte
Cotton Mather
Genteel Tradition
Booker T. Washington
50. 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
The Declaration of Independence
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Loaded Words
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