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CLEP American Literature
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1. Poetry that does not have a regular beat - rhyme or line length. Walt Whitman
Free Verse
Puritan Poetry
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Genteel Tradition
2. Wrote 'Portnoy's Complaint.' Work reflects the changing attitude of Jews living in post-World War II America.
Thomas Jefferson
Phillip Roth
Toni Morrison
Beat Movement
3. 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
Samuel Sewall
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
John Smith
4. Wrote 'Daddy' and 'The Bell Jar' - Confessional Poet
Sylvia Plath
Three main colonial era poets
Vachel Lindsay
Harriet Beecher Stowe
5. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Allen Ginsberg
Edith Wharton
James Weldon Johnson
Narrative Poem
6. Confessional Poet - Won a Pulitzer for 'Live or Die'
Melting Pot
Anne Sexton
Emily Dickinson
Herman Melville
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.
Polemic
Jean Toomer
Toni Morrison
Nativism
8. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Benjamin Franklin
Genteel Tradition
Cotton Mather
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
9. A long narrative that represents characters in a high position who take part in a series of adventures of significance.
Loaded Words
Iambic Pentameter
Epic Story
Erica Jong
10. Wrote 'Native Son -' and 'Black Boy' - First Black Best-Seller - Staunch Communist : Believed it was black America's best hope for equality.
Dorthy Parker
Richard Wright
John Winthrop
Thomas Morton
11. 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 Kerouac
Kate Chopin
Epic Story
William S. Burroughs
12. Considered the voice of the Twenties. Wrote 'The Great Gatsby' - Heavy drinking problem.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bret Harte
Jack London
Drama
13. Genius; called the 'Black Keats' - Worked within traditional poetic forms rather than jazz rhythms. Wrote ' Copper Sun -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl.'
Abigail Adams
Countee Cullen
T.S Eliot
Meter
14. An organization of the leading transcendentalists living around Boston. They were interested in new developments in theology - philosophy - and literature. Major writers: Ripley - Emerson - Alcott - Fuller - Hawthorne - Thoreau - Channing - Hedge - P
Willa Cather
Determinism
Transcendental Club
Walt Whitman
15. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
William Bradford
Norman Mailer
Gwendolyn Brooks
Herman Melville
16. (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
Robert Lowell
John Winthrop
Gothic
Lyric Poem
17. (Colonial Period) Only person to publicly repent his part in the Salem Witch Trials. Published America's first anti-slavery tract.
Benjamin Franklin
James Thurbur
Samuel Sewall
John Steinbeck
18. Unorthodox writers who hung around the bars and coffee houses of San Francisco's North Beach.
Beat Writers
Beat Movement
Jean Toomer
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
19. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Beat Movement
Wonders of the Invisible World
Cotton Mather
Jean Toomer
20. Well-known humorists.
Atavism
Loss of Traditional Values
Sarah Orne Jewett
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
21. Considered the greatest humorist of 19th century American Literature. Wrote 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' Master of 'Local Color' writing. Used vernacular - exaggeration and deadpan narrator to create humor.
e.e cummings
Maya Angelou
Countee Cullen
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
22. A single sheet of paper printed on one or both sides. 'The Dying Redcoat'
Erica Jong
Broadside
Sonnet
Emile Zola
23. 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'
Robert Frost
Narrative Poem
Edwin Arlington Robinson
W.E.B Du Bois
24. 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
Naturalism
Stephen Crane
James Baldwin
25. 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
Rhyme
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Frost
Countee Cullen
26. Pattern of five feet (groups of syllables) - each having one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable.
Genteel Tradition
James Fenimore Cooper
Iambic Pentameter
Refrain
27. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Jack Kerouac
Foot
Persona
Robert Lowell
28. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Lyric Poem
Jack London
Romanticism
Iambic Pentameter
29. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Allegory
Calvinism
Frank Norris
American Adam
30. New England local color writer - is known primarily for her two collections of stories. 'A Humble Romance' and 'A New England Nun'
Three main colonial era poets
Henry James
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Booker T. Washington
31. (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 Faulkner
Puritan Poetry
Beat Movement
Calvinism
32. Chicago School - Work bridges folk poetry and modernist poems. Used music and strong rhythm - Wrote 'The Congo'
Abigail Adams
Loss of Traditional Values
Henry James
Vachel Lindsay
33. 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
Atavism
Nativism
Henry James
Abigail Adams
34. 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)
John Winthrop
John Steinbeck
James Baldwin
35. Friedrich Nitezche's belief in the 'will to power' as the primary force of society and the individual.
Nietzscheism
Robert Lowell
Free Verse
Toni Morrison
36. America's most popular humorist in the 30s and 40s. Frequently explored the battle of the sexes. Wrote 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.'
Theodore Dreiser
James Thurbur
Modernism
Thomas Jefferson
37. (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
Transcendentalism
Theodore Dreiser
Thomas Morton
Ralph Ellison
38. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Toni Morrison
Ballad
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Calvinism
39. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Prose
Carl Sandburg
James Thurbur
Emily Dickinson
40. 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
Naturalism
Benjamin Franklin
Romanticism
41. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Three main colonial era poets
Norman Mailer
Ralph Ellison
42. 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
Free Verse
Social Darwinism
Booker T. Washington
43. Resisted materialism and chose a life of simplicity - close to nature. Walden is a guidebook for life - showing the reader how to live wisely in a world designed to make wise living impossible. 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience' has become a primer
Henry David Thoreau
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Robert Benchley - Will Rogers and the Marx Brothers
Harriet Beecher Stowe
44. 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
Ralph Ellison
Edward Teller
Thomas Morton
45. A stanza.
The Day of Doom
Persona
Verse
Determinism
46. 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
John Smith
Edgar Allen Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Iambic Pentameter
47. People who are best adapted to survive are chosen through the process of natural selection.
Herman Melville
Persona
Darwinism
Realism
48. Third US President Referred to as the 'Sage of Monticello'Drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Kate Chopin
Scientism
Thomas Jefferson
Jonathan Edwards
49. Famous for writing - marriages - divorces and media hype. Wrote 'The Executioner's Song.'
Norman Mailer
Determinism
Walt Whitman
John Smith
50. A 14-line poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme.
The 3 primary literary genres
The Day of Doom
Racialism
Sonnet
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