CLEP American Literature Exam Study Guide


The American Literature examination covers material that is generally taught in a two-semester review course (or the identical) at the school level. It manages the exposition and verse written in the United States from frontier times to the present. It is fundamentally a test of information about artistic works their substance, their experience, and their creators additionally requires a capacity to decipher verse, fiction, and verifiable writing, and a recognition with the phrasing utilized by abstract faultfinders and history specialists. The examination underscores fiction and verse and arrangements to a lesser degree with the article, dramatization, and life account.

Syllabus of the CLEP American Literature Exam


The topic of the American Literature examination is drawn from the accompanying ordered periods. The rates demonstrate the surmised rate of exam inquiries from every period.

15% The Colonial and Early National Period (Beginnings-1830)

25% The Romantic Period (1830-1870)

20% The Period of Realism and Naturalism (1870-1910)

25% The Modernist Period (1910-1945)

15% The Contemporary Period (1945-Present)

Format of the CLEP American Literature Exam


The test contains more or less 100 inquiries to be replied in 90 minutes. Some of these are pretest inquiries that won't be scored. At whatever time applicants spend on instructional exercises and giving individual data is notwithstanding the genuine testing time.

A discretionary article area can be taken notwithstanding the numerous decision test. The paper area obliges that two expositions be composed amid an aggregate time of 90 minutes. For the first article, a typical topic in American writing and a rundown of major American writers are given. Hopefuls are requested that compose a very much sorted out paper talking about the way that subject is taken care of in works by any two of those creators. For the second article, applicants are solicited to react to one from two themes one obliging investigation of a sonnet, the other obliging examination of a composition passage. For every situation, the particular sonnet or composition selection is given and inquiries are offered to direction.

Candidates are required to compose all around composed papers in clear and exact composition. The paper area is reviewed by personnel at the organization that demands it is still managed in paper-and-pencil group. There is an extra expense for taking this segment, payable to the establishment that regulates the exam.

Study Guide And Test Preparation For CLEP American Literature Exam


CLEP American Literature Exam Study Guide

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