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CLEP American Literature
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1. Southern Gothic writer. Creates stories that simultaneously shock readers and reflect her strong Catholic faith.
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2. Wrote 'My Antonia' and 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' Won a Pulitzer for her novel 'One of Ours'
Loss of Traditional Values
Flannery O'Connor
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Willa Cather
3. 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.
Thomas Morton
Henry David Thoreau
Nativism
Robert Lowell
4. '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
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemmingway
Emily Dickinson
Sylvia Plath
5. Book of feline poems - 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats -' formed the basis of the Broadway hit 'Cats.' Wrote 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Published 'The Waste-Land' which became the most famous poem of the first half of the 20th Centur
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Anne Sexton
William S. Burroughs
T.S Eliot
6. 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.
Epic Story
Persona
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Realism
7. The idea that there is something different - unique and special about Americans.
Foot
Broadside
Epic Story
American Adam
8. Wrote 'The Call of the Wild -' 'White Fang -' ' Sea Wolf -' and 'To Build a Fire.' Socialist. Naturalist
Booker T. Washington
Jack London
James Baldwin
Monologue
9. 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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Verse
Imagist Poetry
Determinism
10. 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
Foot
Wonders of the Invisible World
Scientism
Transcendentalism
11. 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
Vachel Lindsay
Theodore Dreiser
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Edith Wharton
12. (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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Weldon Johnson
Thomas Morton
Meter
13. 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
Frederick Douglass
Genteel Tradition
Lyric Poem
14. 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
Thomas Paine
Beat Writers
John Adams
Two Most Famous Poets of the 20th Century
15. Wrote 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man' and 'Lift Every Voice and Sing -' (The Black National Anthem)
Edgar Lee Masters
John Steinbeck
Vachel Lindsay
James Weldon Johnson
16. Created the first American adventure story. First successful American novelist. 'Father of the American novel.' Very litigious - cranky and vain. Most famous for the 'Leatherstocking Tales': A series of five novels about the frontiersman - Natty Bump
Zora Neal Hurston
Edith Wharton
Rhythm
James Fenimore Cooper
17. Confessional Poet - Wrote 'Lord Weary's Castle' and 'In Life Studies'
Narrative Poem
Robert Lowell
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Drama
18. (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
Jack Kerouac
The Declaration of Independence
End Rhyme vs Internal Rhyme
19. Naturalist - Wrote 'McTeague - a Story of San Francisco'
Edith Wharton
Edward Teller
Frank Norris
Verse
20. Produced a number of sketches - poems - and a one-act pay titled 'Cane.'
James Weldon Johnson
Thomas Morton
Genteel Tradition
Jean Toomer
21. All written work that is not poetry - drama or song. Articles - autobiographies - biographies - essays - novels and editorials are prose.
Samuel Sewall
Ralph Ellison
Prose
Transcendentalism
22. Created new poetic forms and subjects to fashion a distinctly American type of poetic expression. Rejected conventional themes - traditional literary references - allusions - and rhymes. Used long lines to capture rhythms of natural speech - free ver
Jack Kerouac
Walt Whitman
Narrative Poem
Broadside
23. That America's unique identity transcends ethnic - cultural - or religious backgrounds. Idea given by St. Jean de Crevecoeur
Social Darwinism
Romanticism
Melting Pot
Drama
24. 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
Theodore Dreiser
Monologue
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Lowell
25. 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.
Genteel Tradition
Calvinism
Frank Norris
Harriet Beecher Stowe
26. Autobiography is considered the one of the greatest ever written. Wrote Poor Richard's Alamanac
Benjamin Franklin
Genteel Tradition
Edward Teller
John Winthrop
27. Coined the term 'Beat Generation' - Wrote 'On the Road' - All of his books are Autobiographical
Loaded Words
Polemic
Jack Kerouac
The 3 primary literary genres
28. (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
Bret Harte
Cotton Mather
William Faulkner
Thomas Morton
29. (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
Anne Sexton
Puritan Poetry
William Bradford
Atavism
30. 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.
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Zora Neal Hurston
Kate Chopin
Imagist Poetry
31. 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
Beat Writers
Henry James
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Frank Norris
32. Writings portray the lives of poor - oppressed black women in the early 1900s.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Alice Walker
Bret Harte
Beat Writers
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.
Dorthy Parker
James Baldwin
Lyres
The 3 primary literary genres
34. 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
William Bradford
Ralph Ellison
Lyres
Carl Sandburg
35. Wrote 'Howl -' ' Empty Mirror -' and 'Kaddish and Other Poems' - Poet
Allen Ginsberg
Nietzscheism
Broadside
Edward Teller
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.'
Allegory
Iambic Pentameter
Thomas Morton
James Thurbur
37. Wrote Catcher in the Rye
J.D Salinger
Robert Lowell
The 3 primary literary genres
Loss of Traditional Values
38. A social and artistic movement of the 1950's stressing unrestrained literary self expression and nonconformity with the mainstream culture
Calvinism
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Bret Harte
Beat Movement
39. First Black female poet to win a Pulitzer. Best known for her poems 'The Bean Eaters' and 'We Real Cool.'
Wonders of the Invisible World
James Thurbur
Gwendolyn Brooks
Prose
40. 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
Broadside
Robert Lowell
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry James
41. Writings interweave sexual and racial concerns; what it means to be black and homosexual in America in the 2nd half of the 20th Century.
Puritans (Saints - Separatists)
Allen Ginsberg
Beat Movement
James Baldwin
42. 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
Naturalism
Prose
Robert Frost
James Weldon Johnson
43. Wrote 'The Invisible Man' - Considered a landmark achievement in American literature
Erica Jong
Ralph Ellison
Kate Chopin
American Adam
44. (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
Jack London
Lyric Poem
Poetry
45. Applying the evolutionary 'survival of the fittest' concept to a world marked by struggle and competition. (Promulgated by Herbert Spencer - a best-selling sociologist of the late 19th Century.
Narrative Poem
Saul Bellow
Social Darwinism
Epic Story
46. 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
Foot
William Byrd
Romanticism
Transcendental Club
47. 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.
Thomas Morton
Loaded Words
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gothic
48. Movement in the early part of the 20th Century where writers experimented with new themes such as fragmentation - stream of consciousness - and imagery.
James Thurbur
Refrain
Modernism
Frederick Douglass
49. 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
Rhyme Scheme
Ralph Ellison
William Bradford
50. A story told in song form. Ballads often tell stories of adventure and love.
Gwendolyn Brooks
William Faulkner
Ballad
James Thurbur
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