American Literature CLEP (2025/2026) ACTUAL EXAM COMPREHENSIV
American Literature CLEP
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1. Metaphysical Po- Uses conceits and uses intellectual and philosophical language. Makes abstract
etry comparisons using conceits. ie. John Donne.
2. Michael Wig- Clergyman who wrote "Day of Doom" and "Meat out of the Eater". He wrote lyrical,
glesworth theological poems. Puritan.
3. Connotation the feelings or emotions surrounding a word. (ie. home = pleasant haven)
4. motif Phase, image, action, that unifies a work of literature by recurring throughout it.
A theme or idea in a work of art or literature that is developed or repeated.
5. Theme central idea of a work of literature, general topic or subject.
6. Apostrophe A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person,
or some abstraction. Often used to address deep emotion.
7. Philip Freneau Transitional poet. Between Enlightenment and the Romantic age. " "The Wild
Honeysuckle". Published National Gazette that promoted anti-federalism. Con-
sidered "the poet of the American Revolution."
8. picaresque novel about lower-class character who triumphs through wit instead of hard work.
Usually autobiographical and in the first person.
9. J. Hector St. John •French-born American who wrote "Letters from an American Farmer". First
Crevecoeur successful American author. First to examine the idea of the "American Dream"
and attempted to explain what an "American" was.
Concepts by him that influenced America culture.
• American Adam - uniqueness of new people called "Americans".
•Melting Pot - America's uniqueness transcends ethnic, religious, cultural back-
grounds.
10. Huswifery by Edward Taylor. "Make me, O Lord, thy Spinning Wheele compleat"
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11. W.E.B. DuBois Opposite of B.T. Washington. Black should engage in higher education. Chal-
lenges Washington's inability to see complete integration in America. Not only
work for freedom but demand rights and participation in office. Disagrees on how
"liberation" should be defined.
12. Alliteration Repetition of consonant sounds.
13. Stephen Crane A "realistic" writer. Wrote The Red Badge of Courage.
Irony: Henry's only wound comes from retreat, not battle.
-Humans are left on this world to fend for themselves without help from divine
creator.
14. Heroic Couplet a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter (ie. aa, bb, cc) and
written in an elevated style. (tradition of the epic form)
15. imagery The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing,
place, or experience.
16. Edward Taylor Wrote Preparatory Meditations. God's Determinations touching His Elect. His
work not meant for publication. Uses conceits and unusual images. Inspired
metaphysical poets like Ezra Pound. T.S. Eliot.
17. Metonymy One word or phrase is substituted for another with which is closely associated.
"crown ’royalty",
"ring ’marriage"
"heart’love"
18. Bluest Eye Pecola wants_____________ to be beautiful.
-She is considered a scapegoat because her ugliness has made the towns people
beautiful, her suffering made them feel lucky, her silence, their chatter.
By Toni Morrison.
19.
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Huck Finn es- faking his death.
caped his father
by End of book: different from classic American success myths. Instead of being free
of moral corruption into wilderness, it is being adopted into moral corruption
away from wilderness.
20. Brook Farm A transcendentalist Utopian experiment, put into practice by transcendentalist for-
mer Unitarian minister George Ripley. Emerson declined to live there. Hawthorne
was there, but wrote a satire about it in "Blithedale Romance".
Margaret Fuller joined.
21. Olaudah Equiano wrote The first slave narrative. "Interesting Narrative of the life of
_____________". Powerful abolitionist voice against inhumanity. He bought his
freedom and traveled and taught.
22. Close reading ______ ignores author's intent or any commentary outside the particular work;
viewed each work as a piece of art. Trend from 1920 to 1960. It scrutinized words
and their order within a literary work.
23. Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds within words.
24. William Dean leading realist who seriously considered the problems of industrialization and
Howells unequal rights in his novels. wrote bio of Abe Lincoln. Wrote "The Rise of Silas
Lapham" - rags to riches story; moral and ethical dilemmas. Wrote "Edith".
25. William Hill wrote First American Novel - The Power of Sympathy (1789), a fictitious romance
Brown novel based on contemporary scandel between the Mertons and Sarah Merton's
sister.
26. William Bradford wrote Of Plymouth Plantation records why he wrote the forerunner of the US
Constitution, The Mayflower Compact. Pilgrim Leader.
27. Ezra Pound
American Literature CLEP
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ACCURATE SOLUTION (DETAILED &
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1. Metaphysical Po- Uses conceits and uses intellectual and philosophical language. Makes abstract
etry comparisons using conceits. ie. John Donne.
2. Michael Wig- Clergyman who wrote "Day of Doom" and "Meat out of the Eater". He wrote lyrical,
glesworth theological poems. Puritan.
3. Connotation the feelings or emotions surrounding a word. (ie. home = pleasant haven)
4. motif Phase, image, action, that unifies a work of literature by recurring throughout it.
A theme or idea in a work of art or literature that is developed or repeated.
5. Theme central idea of a work of literature, general topic or subject.
6. Apostrophe A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person,
or some abstraction. Often used to address deep emotion.
7. Philip Freneau Transitional poet. Between Enlightenment and the Romantic age. " "The Wild
Honeysuckle". Published National Gazette that promoted anti-federalism. Con-
sidered "the poet of the American Revolution."
8. picaresque novel about lower-class character who triumphs through wit instead of hard work.
Usually autobiographical and in the first person.
9. J. Hector St. John •French-born American who wrote "Letters from an American Farmer". First
Crevecoeur successful American author. First to examine the idea of the "American Dream"
and attempted to explain what an "American" was.
Concepts by him that influenced America culture.
• American Adam - uniqueness of new people called "Americans".
•Melting Pot - America's uniqueness transcends ethnic, religious, cultural back-
grounds.
10. Huswifery by Edward Taylor. "Make me, O Lord, thy Spinning Wheele compleat"
, American Literature CLEP
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11. W.E.B. DuBois Opposite of B.T. Washington. Black should engage in higher education. Chal-
lenges Washington's inability to see complete integration in America. Not only
work for freedom but demand rights and participation in office. Disagrees on how
"liberation" should be defined.
12. Alliteration Repetition of consonant sounds.
13. Stephen Crane A "realistic" writer. Wrote The Red Badge of Courage.
Irony: Henry's only wound comes from retreat, not battle.
-Humans are left on this world to fend for themselves without help from divine
creator.
14. Heroic Couplet a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter (ie. aa, bb, cc) and
written in an elevated style. (tradition of the epic form)
15. imagery The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, thing,
place, or experience.
16. Edward Taylor Wrote Preparatory Meditations. God's Determinations touching His Elect. His
work not meant for publication. Uses conceits and unusual images. Inspired
metaphysical poets like Ezra Pound. T.S. Eliot.
17. Metonymy One word or phrase is substituted for another with which is closely associated.
"crown ’royalty",
"ring ’marriage"
"heart’love"
18. Bluest Eye Pecola wants_____________ to be beautiful.
-She is considered a scapegoat because her ugliness has made the towns people
beautiful, her suffering made them feel lucky, her silence, their chatter.
By Toni Morrison.
19.
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Huck Finn es- faking his death.
caped his father
by End of book: different from classic American success myths. Instead of being free
of moral corruption into wilderness, it is being adopted into moral corruption
away from wilderness.
20. Brook Farm A transcendentalist Utopian experiment, put into practice by transcendentalist for-
mer Unitarian minister George Ripley. Emerson declined to live there. Hawthorne
was there, but wrote a satire about it in "Blithedale Romance".
Margaret Fuller joined.
21. Olaudah Equiano wrote The first slave narrative. "Interesting Narrative of the life of
_____________". Powerful abolitionist voice against inhumanity. He bought his
freedom and traveled and taught.
22. Close reading ______ ignores author's intent or any commentary outside the particular work;
viewed each work as a piece of art. Trend from 1920 to 1960. It scrutinized words
and their order within a literary work.
23. Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds within words.
24. William Dean leading realist who seriously considered the problems of industrialization and
Howells unequal rights in his novels. wrote bio of Abe Lincoln. Wrote "The Rise of Silas
Lapham" - rags to riches story; moral and ethical dilemmas. Wrote "Edith".
25. William Hill wrote First American Novel - The Power of Sympathy (1789), a fictitious romance
Brown novel based on contemporary scandel between the Mertons and Sarah Merton's
sister.
26. William Bradford wrote Of Plymouth Plantation records why he wrote the forerunner of the US
Constitution, The Mayflower Compact. Pilgrim Leader.
27. Ezra Pound
