Clep English
In order to test out or clep English you will need to pass, with a score of 50 or higher, 95 English questions with the time limit of 90 minutes.
The English clep test cost $77, in addition to the fee to take the test there will be a sitting fee that will be charged by the testing center you are having administer the English clep test. The sitting fees rarely are more than $20.
The items the test covers the well-known works of literature written by English authors and you will need to be familiar enough with their stories so that you can identify who the author is. You will also be tested on common literary terms as well as different writing methods.
The English literature clep tests is a fairly straightforward exam as long as you have either taken an aimless literature class in the past or have the official study guide entitled analyzing and interpreting literature.
This is one of the clep tests that I personally took, and in all honesty, I have no background in English, I have no interest in literature, and I don’t even like to read fictional stories. However, this test is traditionally known to be one of the easier tests and I would recommend that everyone take this test.
The step study method that I applied was to read through the English clep test study guide, and to memorize the vocabulary that is provided, and then take practice test one. Based on my scoring of practice test one and the questions I missed, I would go back and find the answer for each question that I missed. By doing that I became familiar with every question on the practice test one and could answer it successfully.
I then took practice test number 2, at this point I was familiar with the testing questions in the types of answers they were expecting you think you will find as I did that i found that I could pass the practice test number 2. At that point I took practice test number 3 just in case and easily passed.
The great part about this test as well as any other clep test is that you don’t have to worry about how well you score, you simply have to worry about passing.
Here’s a breakdown of the type of material you should know and be familiar with to take this test. Keep in mind the clep study guide will give you all of this information and help you be prepared for the test.
This test covers material that is usually taught in a 2 semester course, and is primarily concerned with major authors and literary works with a minor focus on lesser-known writers.
35 to 40% test will be based on literary background, literary terms, literary references, identification of authors and metrical patterns.
60 to 65% of the test will be based on perceived meanings, identifying mood and to, analyzing the elements of the literary passage, following patterns of imagery, comprehending the reasoning of literary criticism, and identifying characteristics and style.
Because such a large portion of the test is based on understanding stories or narratives, I was able to pass the test by learning how to read and understand literature. As a mentioned before I’m not familiar and their stories of well-known English authors nor do I have any desire to read them but if you can understand and learn how to read their writing, you can easily interpret the passage and answer each question appropriately.
So the best approach when studying for this exam is not to go out and read all the well-known authors and books written from American authors, it’s simply to learn how to understand analyze and interpret literature especially metaphors and similes.
Here is the short story with some simple questions these are the type of questions that you can expect on this exam, again it was one of the easier exams everyone should take this one at least.
Sample Test Questions
The following sample questions do not appear on an actual CLEP
examination. They are intended to give potential test-takers an
indication of the format and difficulty level of the examination
and to provide content for practice and review. For more sample
questions and info about the test, see the CLEP Official Study
Guide.
Questions 1–3 refer to the following passage.
“Is he a ghoul or a vampire?” I mused. I had read of such
hideous incarnate demons. And then I set myself to reflect
how I had tended him in infancy, and watched him grow
to youth, and followed him almost through his whole
course; and what absurd nonsense it was to yield to that
sense of horror. “But where did he come from, the little
dark thing, harbored by a good man to his bane?” muttered
Superstition, as I dozed into unconsciousness. And I began,
half dreaming, to weary myself with imagining some fit
parentage for him; and, repeating my waking meditations, I
tracked his existence over again, with grim variations; at last
picturing his death and funeral: of which all I can remember
is, being exceedingly vexed at having the task of dictating
an inscription for his monument, and consulting the sexton
about it; and, as he had no surname, and we could not tell
his age, we were obliged to content ourselves with the single
word “Heathcliff.”
2. The narrator is describing a mental conflict between
(A) the supernatural and the worldly
(B) the demonic and the angelic
(C) science and art
(D) urban and rural
(E) laborers and the gentry
3. This passage’s concern with dreams, death, horror,
and monsters links it closely to which of the following
kinds of fiction?
(A) the epistolatory novel
(B) the stream of consciousness novel
(C) the picaresque novel
(D) the Gothic novel
(E) the regional novel
4. Which of the following is an English allegorical epic
that features the Red Cross Knight and Gloriana?
(A) The Pilgrim’s Progress
(B) Orlando Furioso
(C) The Faerie Queene
(D) Romance of the Rose
(E) Paradise Lost
5. All of the following were written in the 20th century
EXCEPT:
(A) The Heart of Darkness
(B) Middlemarch
1. The passage above appears in which of the following
novels?
(A) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
(B) Villette
(C) The Woman in White
(D) The Way of All Flesh
(E) Wuthering Heights
(C) Finnegan’s Wake
(D) Juno and the Paycock
(E) The Man of Property
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CLEP English Literature: At a Glance
6. What is the order, from earliest to latest, in which the 8. Which of the following poets is best known for an
following works about King Arthur were written?
I. Le Morte d’Arthur
II. Idylls of the King
III. The Once and Future King
(A) I, II, III
(B) I, III, II
(C) III, I, II
(D) II, III, I
(E) III, II, I
7. Leigh Hunt, Thomas de Quincey, and Walter Savage
Landor are essayists associated with what literary
period?
(A) the Restoration
(B) the Romantic period
(C) the Victorian period
(D) the Age of Reason
(E) the Renaissance
unusual system of prosody called “sprung rhythm”?
(A) A.E. Housman
(B) Christina Rosetti
(C) Gerard Manley Hopkins
(D) Algernon Charles Swinburne
(E) Elizabeth Barrett Browning