CLEP College American Literature Exam Prep (Latest 2023\/ 2024 Update) Study Guide with Verified Answers| 100% Correct<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CLEP College American Literature Exam
Prep (Latest 2023\/ 2024 Update) Study Guide
with Verified Answers| 100% Correct
Q: “Revolutionized the American novel” with experiments in point of view, voice, and
narrative style.
Answer:
William Faulkner. Known of “stream of consciousness” style
Q: Biff Loman
Answer:
Son of protagonist, Willy Loman, in “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller. Biff loses jobs
because he steals and lacks maturity. Willy eventually commits suicide so that Biff can have the
insurance money
Q: Naturalist influenced by Social Darwinists
Answer:
Jack London
Q: Confessional Poets
Answer:
John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich
Q: Southern Writers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Answer:
Flannery O’Conner, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers
Q: The Beat Poets
Answer:
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth
Q: Fireside Poets
Answer:
John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendall Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Q: Harlem Renaissance
Answer:
James Welson Johnson, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown,
Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright
Q: Modernist Poets
Answer:
Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, Carl Sanburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra
Pound, H.D., Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, ee cummings, Hart Crane, Edna St Vincent Millay
Q: Regionalists<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Answer:
Mark Twain – Missouri, Kate Chopin – Louisiana, Theodore Dreiser – Chicago, Willa Cather –
Nebraska, Jack London – Alaska, Sarah Orne Jewett – Maine, Katherine Anne Porter – Texas,
John Steinbeck – California
Q: John Smith
Answer:
Colonist. Not a Puritan. Wrote “The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer
Isles.” Captured by Powhatan Indians, rescued by Pocahontas
Q: John Winthrop
Answer:
Puritan. Preached Sermon: “A Modell of Christian Charity” – – “citty upon a hill” – to the
passengers on the flagship Arabella
Q: Anne Bradstreet
Answer:
Puritan. First Female American Author. Poetry collection: “The Tenth Muse.” Poems include:
“The Prologue, The Author to Her Book, Before the Birth of One of Her Children, To My Dear
and Loving Husband, To My Dear Children, Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of our
House, The Flesh and the Spirit”
Q: Mary Rowlandson
Answer:
“The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of HIs Promises
Displayed: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.” Uses
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Q: Edward Taylor
Answer:
Puritan Preacher. “Preparatory Meditations, Meditation 8 and Prologue, Huswifery” Uses
extended metaphors – conceits. Spider, spinning wheel, etc
Q: Cotton Mather
Answer:
Puritan Preacher. “The Wonders of the Invisible World,” – participated in Salem witch trials.
“Magnalia Christi Americana,” – a history of the wonderful works of Christ in America
Q: Jonathan Edwards
Answer:
Puritan Preacher. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Freedom of Will, The Great Christian
Doctrine of Original Sin Defended.” Influenced by the Age of Enlightenment (Reason)”
Q: Benjamin Franklin
Answer:
Deist. Desire to reach “moral perfection” – temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality,
industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility
Q: “The Federalist”
Answer:
85 essays advocating a strong federal government. Signed “publius” but written by Alexander
Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison
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