american literature clep exam
Literary Conceit correct answers an extended metaphor, sometimes using apparent
opposites to highlight an underlying truth
pathetic fallacy correct answers ascribing feelings to things (for test bank email
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Paradox correct answers a contradiction or dilemma
Similie correct answers A comparison using "like" or "as"
Make me, O Lord, thy Spining Wheele compleate. Thy Holy Worde my Distaff make for
mee. Make mine Affections thy Swift Flyers neate And make my Soule thy holy Spoole
to bee. My Conversation make to be thy Reele And reele the yarn thereon spun of thy
Wheele.
The Passage above is notable chiefly for
(A) irony of statement
(B) pathetic fallacy
(C) a literary conceit
(D) a paradox
(E) a simile correct answers (C) a literary conceit
In The Federalist, No. X, James Madison proposed that the dangers of factions be
controlled by a
(A) republican form of government (B) pure democracy
(C) curtailment of individual liberty (D) reapportionment of property (E) clause for
emergency rule by a minority correct answers (A) republican form of government
Sky Woman, Wolverine, and Turtle are all important figures in which of the following
types of literature?
(A) Puritan allegorical tales
(B) Frontier tall tales
(C) African American animal fables (D) Native American oral tales
(E) Hispanic American magical-realist stories correct answers (D) Native American oral
tales
Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain, Till
snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad, exposed to
public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge, Where errors were not
,lessened (all may judge). At thy return my blushing was not small, My rambling brat (in
print) should mother call, I cast thee by as one unfit for light, Thy visage was so irksome
in my sight.
4. In line 1, "offspring" most probably refer correct answers (B) book of poems
Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain, Till
snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad, exposed to
public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge, Where errors were not
lessened (all may judge). At thy return my blushing was not small, My rambling brat (in
print) should mother call, I cast thee by as one unfit for light, Thy visage was so irksome
in my sight.
5. "My rambling brat" (line 11) is an example correct answers (D) personification
epigram correct answers witty comment
Alliteration correct answers Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Hyperbole correct answers exaggeration
6. Place the name of each of these Colonial era figures beside the British colony with
which he is most closely associated.
Roger Williams
John Smith
John Winthrop
The Virginia Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Colony of Rhode Island correct answers John Smith - The Virginia Colony
John Winthrop - The Massachusetts Bay Colony
Roger Williams - The Colony of Rhode Island
Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with
great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would
immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your
healthy constitution and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your
righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell,
than a spider's web would have to stop a falling rock. The passage above is an example
correct answers (A) Puritanism
Puritanism correct answers Writing style of America's early English-speaking colonists.
emphasizes obedience to God and consists mainly of journals, sermons, and poems.
, Transcendentalism correct answers A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson
in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and
Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind
goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and
each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted
individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized
emotions.
Naturalism correct answers a style and theory of representation based on the accurate
depiction of detail.
Realism correct answers artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
Deism correct answers A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God, but that
God isn't involved in people's lives or in revealing truths to prophets.
Thomas Paine's Common Sense had a direct influence on which of the following
Revolutionary era works?
(A) The Autobiography of John Adams
(B) Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer
(C) Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
(D) Franklin's "The Way to Wealth"
(E) Freneau's "On the Causes of Political Degeneracy" correct answers (C) Jefferson's
Declaration of Independence
9. All of the following are writers of the Colonial era EXCEPT
(A) Anne Bradstreet
(B) Margaret Fuller
(C) Cotton Mather
(D) Phillis Wheatley
(E) Benjamin Franklin correct answers (B) Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller correct answers She is particularly remembered for her landmark book
Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), which examined the place of women within
society
Anne Bradstreet correct answers first colonial poet; wrote To My Dear Loving and
Husband, The Author to her Book, Upon the Burning of Our House
Cotton Mather correct answers minister, part of Puritan New England important
families, a scholar, one of first americans to promote vaccination of smallpox when it
was believed to be dangerous, strongly believed on witches, encouraged witch trials in
salem, Magnalia Christi Americana
