College American Literature CLEP Exam Prep (NEW 2023/ 2024 Update) Guide with Verified Answers| 100% Correct
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Washington
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Wrote short stories: "Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Devil and Tom Walker." Created Persona: Diedrich Knickerbocker as a marketing ploy that worked.
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Leatherstocking Tales
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by James Fenimore Cooper. Include: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer
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William Cullen Bryant
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Fireside Poet. Precursor to Romanticism. Wrote "Thanatopsis" - a meditation on death, and "To a Waterfowl."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Inspired the Transcendentalist movement. Lived at "Brook Farm - a utopian community" (satirized by Nathaniel Hawthorne in "Blithedale Romance"). Wrote: "Nature, Self-Reliance, The American Scholar, Concord Hymn"
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Margaret Fuller
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Transcendentalist. Editor of "The Dial." Wrote: "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" - also called "The Great Divorce." Wrote: "The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman versus Women."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Defined "Romantic" writing in his prefaces. Wrote: "The Scarlet Letter, Twice-Told Tales, The Maypole and Merrymount, Young Goodman Brown, The Gentle Boy, The Birthmark, The Blithedale Romance, The House of Seven Gables, The Marble Faun, My Kinsman - Major Molineaux"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Most popular writer of his generation. Fireside Poet. Wrote: "A Psalm of Life, The Jewish Cemetery at Newport, My Lost Youth, The Slave's Dream, The Song of Hiawatha (Ojibway Indians), The Courtship of Miles Standish, Paul Revere's Ride."
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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Fireside Poet. Quaker. Many of his poems became hymns. Wrote: "Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Gothic tales - precursor to horror stories. Use of "macabre" (gross) images, plots. Wrote: "The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Purloined Letter, The Raven, To Helen, Annabel Lee."
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Abraham Lincoln called her "The little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Wrote: "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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Harriet Jacobs
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Slave who escaped North to freedom. Wrote "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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Frederick Douglass
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Born a slave. Then freed. Wrote "The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself."
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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Born to free blacks in the North. Aided slaves to safety on the Underground Railroad. Wrote: "Eliza Harris, Ethiopia, Bury Me in a Free Land, Iola Leroy."
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Henry David Thoreau
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Transcendentalist. Imprisoned for refusing to pay poll tax. Wrote: "Walden, Civil Disobedience." Criticized for not totally living off the land while at Walden Pond.
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Walt Whitman
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Transcendentalist. Poet. Called the "father of free verse." Wrote: "One's Self I Sing, Song of Myself, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, Beat! Beat! Drums!, The Wound-Dresser, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, Facing West from California's Shores, In Path's Untrodden"
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Herman Melville
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Leans to darker side of Romanticism. Wrote: "Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Mardi, Moby-Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener, The Piazza Tales, Benito Cereno, The Confidence-Man, The Portent." "Billy Budd" published after his death.
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Emily Dickinson
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Poet. Used short fragmented lines, capitalized nouns, dashes, spaces, extended metaphor, and hymn measure. Didn't give titles to her poems - they are numbered. Wrote: "Number 112 [Show Less]