AMERICAN LITERATURE CLEP
EXAM(ACTUAL EXAM) WITH CORRECT
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECTLY
WELL DEFINED ANSWERS LATEST
ALREADY GRADED A+ 2026
The Sun Also Rises - ANSWERS-E. Hemingway. A powerful
expose of the life and values of the Lost Generation. Jake
Barnes is in love with Brett Ashley (a girl), but Barnes
suffered an injury during World War I... All characters
suffering some way from WWI. The book is a tragedy
because even the greatest courage does not enable the
characters to rise above their circumstances. They only
know how to suck it in and live in it.
The Old Man and the Sea - ANSWERS-Hemingway.
Fisherman named Santiago who finally catches a
magnificent fish after 84 days without a catch. After three
days of battling the fish, he finally manages to reel it in and
lash it to his boat, only to have sharks eat it as he returns to
the harbor. The other fishermen marvel at the size of the
,skeleton; Santiago is spent but triumphant. Santiago
=allegory of Christ.
The Great Gatsby - ANSWERS-F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written
about the Roaring 20's. The plot was a sensitive and satiric
story of the pursuit of success and the collapse of the
American dream. Being one of the writers of the Lost
Generation, Fitzgerald was bitter because of the effects of
the war. Captured the Jazz Age.
In a Station of the Metro - ANSWERS-"The apparition of
these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough."
•uses Synedoche
• mirrors Petrarchan sonnet
Dramatic Monologue - ANSWERS-A monologue involves a
speaker who addresses an unseen audience.
The Waste Land - ANSWERS-T.S. Eliot. American and
European postwar sense of tragedy and despair. Battlefields
of World War I were a muddy ________ planted with
corpses. Also, many lost their faith in religion.
,Blank Verse - ANSWERS-Has (iambic penta)meter , no
rhyme.
e. e. cummings - ANSWERS-poetry mainly about
individuality. used capital letters to emphasize words or
phrases, not necessarily where readers expect them to
appear.
Edgar Lee Masters - ANSWERS-Spoon River Anthology,
families who speak of their failures and dreams in free-verse
monologues.
Native Son - ANSWERS-Richard Wright. Brutal portrait of a
poor black man spurred on to murder by the oppression and
hatred of the white world.
Langston Hughes - ANSWERS-He wanted to capture the
dominant oral traditions of black culture in written form.,
African American poet who described the culture of African
American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. Wrote
of African American hope and defiance, as well as the
culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the
Harlem Renaissance. The Weary Blues. The Dream Keeper.
, Harlem Renaissance Writers - ANSWERS-Langston Hughes,
Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean
Toomer, Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club.
Cane - ANSWERS-by Jean Toomer. does not use the voice of
black people of that era.
William S. Burroughs works - ANSWERS-Junky, Queer, Naked
Lunch
Jack Kerouac's works - ANSWERS-On the Road
The Dharma Bums
Desolation Angels
All works autobiographical.
Allen Ginsberg and his works. - ANSWERS-Howl - "I saw the
best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix." poem = anthem for the Beats.
EXAM(ACTUAL EXAM) WITH CORRECT
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECTLY
WELL DEFINED ANSWERS LATEST
ALREADY GRADED A+ 2026
The Sun Also Rises - ANSWERS-E. Hemingway. A powerful
expose of the life and values of the Lost Generation. Jake
Barnes is in love with Brett Ashley (a girl), but Barnes
suffered an injury during World War I... All characters
suffering some way from WWI. The book is a tragedy
because even the greatest courage does not enable the
characters to rise above their circumstances. They only
know how to suck it in and live in it.
The Old Man and the Sea - ANSWERS-Hemingway.
Fisherman named Santiago who finally catches a
magnificent fish after 84 days without a catch. After three
days of battling the fish, he finally manages to reel it in and
lash it to his boat, only to have sharks eat it as he returns to
the harbor. The other fishermen marvel at the size of the
,skeleton; Santiago is spent but triumphant. Santiago
=allegory of Christ.
The Great Gatsby - ANSWERS-F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written
about the Roaring 20's. The plot was a sensitive and satiric
story of the pursuit of success and the collapse of the
American dream. Being one of the writers of the Lost
Generation, Fitzgerald was bitter because of the effects of
the war. Captured the Jazz Age.
In a Station of the Metro - ANSWERS-"The apparition of
these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough."
•uses Synedoche
• mirrors Petrarchan sonnet
Dramatic Monologue - ANSWERS-A monologue involves a
speaker who addresses an unseen audience.
The Waste Land - ANSWERS-T.S. Eliot. American and
European postwar sense of tragedy and despair. Battlefields
of World War I were a muddy ________ planted with
corpses. Also, many lost their faith in religion.
,Blank Verse - ANSWERS-Has (iambic penta)meter , no
rhyme.
e. e. cummings - ANSWERS-poetry mainly about
individuality. used capital letters to emphasize words or
phrases, not necessarily where readers expect them to
appear.
Edgar Lee Masters - ANSWERS-Spoon River Anthology,
families who speak of their failures and dreams in free-verse
monologues.
Native Son - ANSWERS-Richard Wright. Brutal portrait of a
poor black man spurred on to murder by the oppression and
hatred of the white world.
Langston Hughes - ANSWERS-He wanted to capture the
dominant oral traditions of black culture in written form.,
African American poet who described the culture of African
American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. Wrote
of African American hope and defiance, as well as the
culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the
Harlem Renaissance. The Weary Blues. The Dream Keeper.
, Harlem Renaissance Writers - ANSWERS-Langston Hughes,
Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean
Toomer, Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club.
Cane - ANSWERS-by Jean Toomer. does not use the voice of
black people of that era.
William S. Burroughs works - ANSWERS-Junky, Queer, Naked
Lunch
Jack Kerouac's works - ANSWERS-On the Road
The Dharma Bums
Desolation Angels
All works autobiographical.
Allen Ginsberg and his works. - ANSWERS-Howl - "I saw the
best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix." poem = anthem for the Beats.
