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CLEP American Literature
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1. 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.
Transcendentalism
William Faulkner
Emily Dickinson
John Steinbeck
2. 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
Henry James
Scan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. 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
John Smith
Imagist Poetry
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Lowell
4. (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
William Byrd
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wonders of the Invisible World
5. Major theme of 20th Century literature.
Puritan Poetry
Polemic
Bret Harte
Loss of Traditional Values
6. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
Modernism
Social Darwinism
John Smith
Emily Dickinson
7. 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.
Sylvia Plath
Transcendental Club
Meter
Harriet Beecher Stowe
8. (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
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Beat Writers
Cotton Mather
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
9. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Carl Sandburg
Prose
Vachel Lindsay
Naturalism
10. 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
Bret Harte
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Jack Kerouac
Rhyme
11. A group of lines in a poem. - Lines of poems are grouped into _______s - just as sentences of prose are grouped into paragraphs.
Atavism
Social Darwinism
Stanza
Jack Kerouac
12. Won 4 Pulitzers - Top 20th Century Poet - Wrote 'The Road Not Taken -' ' Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -' and 'Mending Wall'
Lyric Poem
Emile Zola
Allen Ginsberg
Robert Frost
13. 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
Langston Hughes
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Edith Wharton
Bret Harte
14. 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
Zora Neal Hurston
Loss of Traditional Values
Refrain
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
15. (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
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Zora Neal Hurston
Thomas Morton
William Faulkner
16. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Frank Norris
Willa Cather
Saul Bellow
Alice Walker
17. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Epic Story
Maya Angelou
Sylvia Plath
Herman Melville
18. A literary mask a writer assumes for the purpose of creating a character in a poem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Carl Sandburg
Gothic
Persona
19. 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.
Rhyme
Emile Zola
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
John Steinbeck
20. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Claude McKay
Beat Movement
Modernism
21. First vice president and second president. Member of the First and Second Continental Congresses. Helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Husband of Abigail Adams.
Realism
Refrain
Henry James
John Adams
22. 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.
Herman Melville
Sarah Orne Jewett
Edgar Lee Masters
Rhythm
23. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Gothic
Vachel Lindsay
Monologue
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
24. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Stanza
James Thurbur
Racialism
Prose
25. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Carl Sandburg
Iambic Pentameter
Robert Lowell
Jack London
26. 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
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Thomas Paine
Sonnet
Maya Angelou
27. A stanza.
Frederick Douglass
Nietzscheism
Verse
Calvinism
28. All events follow natural laws.
Determinism
Racialism
Walt Whitman
The Declaration of Independence
29. A piece of literature intended to be performed in front of an audience.
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Allen Ginsberg
John Smith
Drama
30. (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
Puritan Poetry
Foot
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
Sylvia Plath
31. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Ralph Ellison
Thomas Jefferson
John Steinbeck
Transcendental Club
32. Stylistic Elements Parallel Structure: repeated used of phrases - clauses - or sentences that are similar in structure. Rhythm - Forceful and Direct Language
Zora Neal Hurston
Broadside
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
The Declaration of Independence
33. In the 1920s - became the symbol of the liberated woman for her wit and independence. Known for her caustic and clever poems and short stories.
Mayflower Compact
Aphorisms
Dorthy Parker
Frederick Douglass
34. 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
Rhyme
Willa Cather
James Thurbur
35. (Colonial Period) Best-known Southern colonial writer. Famous for 'The History of the Dividing Line' and 'The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover'
William Byrd
Thomas Paine
Ezra Pound
Gothic
36. 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
Robert Lowell
Ernest Hemmingway
Langston Hughes
Stephen Crane
37. Prose - Poetry - Drama
Refrain
Jack London
Gwendolyn Brooks
The 3 primary literary genres
38. The repeated use of identical sounds.
Ezra Pound
Frank Norris
Robert Frost
Rhyme
39. 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.
Thomas Jefferson
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Frederick Douglass
Realism
40. Greatest poet of American colonial period. Influenced T.S Elliot - Ezra Pound - and other modern-day metaphysical poets. Defined 'American'
Washington Irving
Foot
Edward Teller
Mary Wilkins Freeman
41. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
Jack London
Samuel Sewall
Robert Lowell
Sonnet
42. Brief - musical poems that convey a speaker's feelings.
e.e cummings
Lyric Poem
Cotton Mather
Saul Bellow
43. 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
Loaded Words
Jonathan Edwards
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalism
44. 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
Edgar Lee Masters
Bret Harte
James Fenimore Cooper
Ezra Pound
45. The beat or rhythm of a poem - created by a pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables.
John Winthrop
Rhythm
Meter
Scientism
46. A group of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Foot
W.E.B Du Bois
Romanticism
Vachel Lindsay
47. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Nativism
Flannery O'Connor
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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'
William Byrd
Dorthy Parker
The 3 primary literary genres
Toni Morrison
49. A pattern of stressed unstressed syllables that create a beat - as in music.
William S. Burroughs
Edward Teller
Rhythm
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
50. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
J.D Salinger
Thomas Jefferson
W.E.B Du Bois
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme