CLEP American Lit - the Modernists

Question 1

All of the following are poets known for their work after World War II EXCEPT

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Carl Sandburg

Question 2

"I, too dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it," What does "it" represent?

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Poetry

Question 3

William Carlos Williams rejected imagism. This term means the object allows poet to see the world critically and clearl

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Objectivism

Question 4

"I shall grow old...I shall grow old.../I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled." Comes from this T.S. Eliot poem

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"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Question 5

Writers & poets such as Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot who moved to Europe to live and write are referred to as..

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expatriates

Question 6

What is the name of the literary journal that was founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912 ?

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Poetry: A Magazine of Verse

Question 7

"The Fog" by Carl Sandburg is an example of:

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extended metaphor

Question 8

William Faulkner,like James Joyce, uses this literary device which is focused on the mental-emotional life of characters

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stream of consciousness

Question 9

Who wrote "Mending Wall?"

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Robert Frost

Question 10

Which Harlem Renaissance poet's "I, Too, Sing America" is a response to Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"?

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Langston Hughes

Question 11

By knowing the poet (Sandburg) and the poem, the words "harbor and city" probably refers to:

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Chicago

Question 12

The Modernist Period was in

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1910-1945

Question 13

Ernest Hemingway wrote the following novels except:

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Moby DIck

Question 14

During this literary period, good literature became complex and preoccupied itself with its own meaning. Which era?

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Modernists

Question 15

"The Walls Do Not Fall" and "The Flowering of the Road" were written by H.D. These initials refer to:

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Hilda Doolittle

Question 16

One of the main themes this writer from Salinas Valley, California was social justice–specifically in regard to migrants

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John Steinbeck

Question 17

William Carlos Williams was not only a poet, but also a(n):

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physician

Question 18

Ezra Pound's "A Station of the Metro" is an example of what poetic form that used clear language and precise images?

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Imagism

Question 19

Which Eugene O’Neill play is an autobiographi- cal account of his Irish-American family?

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Long Day’s Journey into Night

Question 20

The poem "Disillusionment of Ten O'clock" was written by:

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Wallace Stevens

Question 21

What New York neighborhood became the center of African-American culture during the 1920s?

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Harlem

Question 22

Eugene O’Nell's play, BoundEast for Cardiff was the first of his plays produced by this acting group started by Glaspell

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The Provincetown Players

Question 23

Carl Sandburg is famous for writing about Chicago as well as the biography of this president:

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 24

Yoknapatawpha County appears in the works of

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William Faulkner

Question 25

What famous 20th Century poet titled his first poetry collection A Boy's Will after the Longfellow poem:

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Robert Frost

Question 26

The poem "Mending Wall" explores neighbor relations but not whether it is good or bad. This literary tension is called:

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ambiguity

Question 27

According to Archibald MacLeish's modernist poem "Ars Poetic," "A poem should not mean, /but ...."

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be

Question 28

Novels such as The Portrait of a Lady and Daisy Miller were written by:

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Henry James

Question 29

Which of these writers was not part of "The Lost Generation"?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 30

Which modernist poet is known for breaking poetic rules concerning: capitalization, line spacing, and punctuation?

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E.E. Cummings

Question 31

Writers and poets, such as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot, who moved to Europe are referred to as

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expatriates

Question 32

Who wrote "Mending Wall?"

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Robert Frost

Question 33

the Grapes of Wrath is considered to be an American :

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Epic

Question 34

What is symbolized by “the valley of ashes” in Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gastby?

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The moral and social decay caused by the mindless pursuit of wealth

Question 35

Which of these poets was NOT considered a modernist?

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Julia Ward Howe

Question 36

all of the following writers are considered part of the Harlem Renaissance EXCEPT:

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James Baldwin

Question 37

What modernist commonly used traditional forms to explore contemporary issues such as love and relationships?

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Question 38

Though best known for the play, Trifles, Susan Glaspell won the Pulitzer for this play about Emily Dickinson:

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Alison's House

Question 39

Term refers to art that was bizarre, fantastic, or abnormal and symbolized being human in an inhumane world

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grotesque

Question 40

Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour," Mrs. Mallard dying of heart disease-"of joy that kills" is an example of:

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dramatic irony

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