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CLEP American Literature
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1. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
Lyric Poem
The 3 primary literary genres
Puritan Poetry
Dorthy Parker
2. 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.
Theodore Dreiser
Claude McKay
Gwendolyn Brooks
Wonders of the Invisible World
3. Famous Poet and Novelist - 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
Maya Angelou
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Jack Kerouac
Mary Wilkins Freeman
4. A type of literature win which words are selected and strung together for their beauty - sound - and power to express feelings.
Booker T. Washington
Theodore Dreiser
Poetry
Thomas Morton
5. 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.'
Foot
Jonathan Edwards
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
6. 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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Day of Doom
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
James Thurbur
7. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Edgar Lee Masters
Meter
Darwinism
Flannery O'Connor
8. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Richard Wright
Herman Melville
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
Melting Pot
9. Best-known and most influential early Naturalist. Rougon-Marcquart
Herman Melville
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Emile Zola
10. (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
Erica Jong
Puritan Poetry
Poetry
American Adam
11. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Social Darwinism
Beat Movement
Modernism
Nativism
12. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Beat Writers
Edith Wharton
Darwinism
e.e cummings
13. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Persona
Saul Bellow
Aphorisms
Dorthy Parker
14. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Prose
Phillip Roth
Aphorisms
Lyres
15. 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
Ballad
Kate Chopin
Modernism
16. Wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk' - Founder of the NAACP
Edward Teller
Benjamin Franklin
W.E.B Du Bois
Wonders of the Invisible World
17. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
James Fenimore Cooper
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Ballad
Nativism
18. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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19. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Langston Hughes
James Weldon Johnson
Frank Norris
Edgar Allen Poe
20. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Verse
Epic Story
J.D Salinger
Benjamin Franklin
21. The process of reading a poem to figure out it's meter.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Determinism
Scan
John Steinbeck
22. 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'
William S. Burroughs
Frank Norris
Melting Pot
Samuel Sewall
23. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Herman Melville
Edith Wharton
Nativism
Samuel Sewall
24. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
Scan
William S. Burroughs
William Byrd
John Steinbeck
25. 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
Henry James
Gwendolyn Brooks
Social Darwinism
Edgar Lee Masters
26. (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
Ernest Hemmingway
Calvinism
Puritan Poetry
Flannery O'Connor
27. 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
Beat Movement
Jack Kerouac
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Sonnet
28. 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.
Racialism
e.e cummings
Samuel Sewall
Calvinism
29. 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.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Willa Cather
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Frederick Douglass
30. 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
William Faulkner
Rhythm
31. Story in which the characters - setting and action represent abstract concepts apart from their literal meaning.
Stanza
Epic Story
Mayflower Compact
Allegory
32. (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
Saul Bellow
Transcendentalism
Racialism
William Bradford
33. 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.
Mayflower Compact
American Adam
Foot
Realism
34. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Gwendolyn Brooks
Benjamin Franklin
T.S Eliot
Thomas Jefferson
35. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
American Adam
Frank Norris
Gwendolyn Brooks
Vachel Lindsay
36. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Thomas Paine
Henry James
Wonders of the Invisible World
Nietzscheism
37. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Broadside
Nativism
Henry David Thoreau
38. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Polemic
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Anne Sexton
John Smith
39. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Frank Norris
Robert Lowell
Carl Sandburg
Naturalism
40. 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.
Toni Morrison
William Faulkner
Mayflower Compact
Naturalism
41. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
James Weldon Johnson
The 3 primary literary genres
Foot
Refrain
42. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Willa Cather
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Imagist Poetry
James Weldon Johnson
43. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Darwinism
John Adams
Transcendental Club
Frank Norris
44. Leader of naturalism in American writing. Wrote 'An American Tragedy'
Carl Sandburg
William S. Burroughs
Kate Chopin
Theodore Dreiser
45. 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.
Wonders of the Invisible World
Kate Chopin
Thomas Jefferson
Verse
46. (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
Allen Ginsberg
William S. Burroughs
Jack Kerouac
47. 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.
Puritan Poetry
Dorthy Parker
Social Darwinism
Zora Neal Hurston
48. 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
Social Darwinism
Emily Dickinson
Scientism
49. (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
Wonders of the Invisible World
Kate Chopin
F. Scott Fitzgerald
50. 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.
Countee Cullen
William Byrd
Gothic
John Adams
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