CLEP Exam - American Literature Study Guide - Main

Ballad

Lyric Poem

Narrative Poem

Sonnet

Blank Verse

Foot

Iambic Pentameter

Free Verse

Meter

Refrain

Rhyme

Rhyme Scheme

Rhythm

Scan

Stanza

Verse

Mayflower Compact

John Adams

Abigail Adams

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Paine

Washington Irving

Gothic

James Fenimore Cooper

Edgar Allen Poe

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalism

Romanticism

Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Allegory

Herman Melville

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Polemic

Frederick Douglass

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

Stephen Crane

Realism

Naturalism

Atavism

Determinism

Nativism

Social Darwinism

Kate Chopin

Edith Wharton

Modernism

William Faulkner

Ezra Pound

Persona

Monologue

John Steinbeck

Robert Frost

Langston Hughes

Jean Toomer

Booker T. Washington

James Weldon Johnson

Sylvia Plath

Flannery O'Connor

Ralph Ellison

James Baldwin

Alice Walker

Battle Royal

Ethan Frome

Ambrose Bierce

Young Goodman Brown

Common Sense

The Crucible

Daisy Miller

Harlem Renaissance

John Smith

John Winthrop

Anne Bradstreet

Edward Taylor

Cotton Mather

Jonathan Edwards

Benjamin Franklin

Olaudah Equiano

Phillis Wheatley

Washington Irving

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Edgar Allan Poe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Jacobs

Frederick Douglass

Henry David Thoreau

Walt Whitman

Herman Melville

Emily Dickinson

Naturalism

Regionalism

Mark Twain

Kate Chopin

Stephen Crane

Robert Frost

Ezra Pound

Marianne Moore

T.S. Eliot

Katherine Anne Porter

William Faulkner

Ernest Hemingway

John Steinbeck

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Anne Bradstreet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

James Fenimore Cooper

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Herman Melville

William Bradford

Washington Irving

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Walt Whitman

Booker T. Washington

W.E.B Dubois

Edith Wharton

William Faulkner

Stephen Crane

Bartolome de las Casas

John Smith

John Winthrop

Anne Bradstreet

Edward Taylor

Cotton Mather

Jonathan Edwards

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Paine

The Federalist Papers

Thomas Jefferson

Olaudah Equiano

Phillis Wheatley

James Fenimore Cooper

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Edgar Allen Poe

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Jacobs

Frederick Douglass

Herman Melville

Emily Dickinson

Kate Chopin

Ambrose Bierce

Robert Frost

Ezra Pound

Marianne Moore

T.S. Eliot

Susan Glaspell

Flannery O'Connor