American novel Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

American Literature CLEPMetaphysical Poetry - correct answer Uses conceits and uses intellectual and philosophical language. Makes abstract comparisons using conceits. ie. John Donne. Michael Wigglesworth - correct answer Clergyman who wrote "Day of Doom" and "Meat out of the Eater". He wrote lyrical, theological poems. Puritan. Connotation - correct answer the feelings or emotions surrounding a word. (ie. home = pleasant haven) motif - correct answer Phase, image, action, that unif...

3 Genres Correct Answer-Poetry Prose Drama 3 Forms of Literary Expression Correct Answer-American Literature British Literature Works in Translation Prose Correct Answer-The most common form of written language following natural speech patterns and grammatical structure Phonic Correct Answer-Pertaining to sound from speech Fiction Correct Answer-Imaginary narrative; the information or events are created by the author Non-Fiction Correct Answer-Writing that delivers factual eve...

Praxis 5039 Authors Latest Update Graded A+ J.D. Salinger American writer The Catcher in the Rye Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind Homer Iliad Odyssey John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men The Grapes of Wrath J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Emma Sense and Sensibility English Novelist Romantic Fiction Mary Shelley English novelist Gothic novel - Frankenstein Jonathon Swift Gulliver's Travels Upton Sinclair The Jungle Jack Lon...

Language that is being spoken to a person is called _____________ language. - receptive Language that expresses thoughts and feelings to others is called ________________ language. - expressive stressed, unstressed, unstressed - dactylic stressed, stressed - spondee stressed, unstressed - trochaic unstressed, stressed - iambic unstressed, unstressed, stressed - anapestic The __________ English literary time period lasted from . Writers of this time: Charles Dickens, Robe...

James Fenimore Cooper CORRECT ANSWER First novel 1820 - famous series - Leatherstocking Tales (5) incl. The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), The Deerslayer (1841). First book was Precaution, which attempted to Satirize Jane Austen's novels. Last of the Mohicans CORRECT ANSWER James Fenimore Cooper - 1826 Main character- Natty Bumppo -nickname: Hawkeye - brave and resourceful woodsman armed with unerringly long rifle. Setting: 1757...

Innovation - correct answera novel or improved idea, device, product, etc. or the development thereof Prototype - correct answerA preliminary sketch of an idea or model for something new. It's the original drawing from which something real might be built or created. Bit - correct answerA contraction of "Binary Digits". A bit is the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as 0 or 1. Binary - correct answerA way of representing information using only two options...

Praxis 5038 English Lang. Literature, Novels/Authors Already Passed James Fenimore Cooper First novel 1820 - famous series - Leatherstocking Tales (5) incl. The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), The Deerslayer (1841). First book was Precaution, which attempted to Satirize Jane Austen's novels. Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper - 1826 Main character- Natty Bumppo -nickname: Hawkeye - brave and resourceful woodsman armed with un...

What happens in the Romance de la perdida de Alhama? (anonymous, 1482) Spanish town bears bad news that the town has fallen to the moors. He condemns everyone for letting the tragedy happen, but a wise arabic man tells the truth that the king did nothing to help the town either. Latin American Boom (What was it? When did it happen? Who were the major writers? What is it also called?) Latin America during 1960s & 1970 1.PUSHING of TRADITIONAL LATIN AMERICAN SOCIETAL NORMS Major figur...

James Edward Oglethorpe The leader of English Parliament who founded the Georgia colony, in order to create an effective buffer from the Spanish and Spanish controlled Florida. James Wright Georgia's third, and final, royal governor who fled the colony when the American Revolution began Nancy Morgan Hart one of the most patriotic women in Georgia, she worked as a spy; she disguised herself as a man and entered British camps trying to gain information; famous for holding six Bri...

American Literature CLEP Final Exam Questions 2024. Metaphysical Poetry - correct answer Uses conceits and uses intellectual and philosophical language. Makes abstract comparisons using conceits. ie. John Donne. Michael Wigglesworth - correct answer Clergyman who wrote "Day of Doom" and "Meat out of the Eater". He wrote lyrical, theological poems. Puritan. Connotation - correct answer the feelings or emotions surrounding a word. (ie. home = pleasant haven) motif - correct answer Ph...