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Free CLEP Composition and Literature Exam Braindumps (page: 8)

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Nature, the gentlest mother,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest or the waywardest, –
Her admonition mild

In forest and the hill
By traveller is heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.

How fair her conversation,
A summer afternoon, –
Her household, her assembly;
And when the sun goes down

Her voice among the aisles
Incites the timid prayer
Of the minutest cricket,
The most unworthy flower.

When all the children sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky,

With infinite affection
And infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.

The “lamps” mentioned in line 20 are probably

  1. fireflies
  2. street lamps
  3. stars
  4. house lights
  5. campfires

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The poem ends with sunset and nightfall. The lighting of the lamps represents the stars coming out in the night sky.



Nature, the gentlest mother, Impatient of no child,
The feeblest or the waywardest, – Her admonition mild

In forest and the hill By traveller is heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel Or too impetuous bird.

How fair her conversation, A summer afternoon, –
Her household, her assembly;
And when the sun goes down

Her voice among the aisles Incites the timid prayer
Of the minutest cricket, The most unworthy flower.

When all the children sleep She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps; Then, bending from the sky,

With infinite affection And infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip, Wills silence everywhere.

“Her golden finger on her lip” (line 24) is an example of

  1. rhyme
  2. ellipsis
  3. alliteration
  4. personification
  5. metonymy

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

Personification is when a natural phenomenon is expressed in human terms. In this case the sun setting over the horizon is represented as Mother Nature’s “golden finger on her lip.”



I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written: – mean the law copyists or scriveners.

The sentence above was written by

  1. Herman Melville
  2. Margaret Fuller
  3. Rebecca Harding Davis
  4. Walt Whitman
  5. George Washington Harris

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

These are the opening words of Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” (1853). The story is written in the first person and the opening sentence mentions the protagonist’s profession – a scrivener (a public copyist or writer).



Which author’s polemical anti-slavery novel was first published as episodes in the weekly The National Era?

  1. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  2. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  3. Booker T. Washington
  4. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  5. W.B. DuBois

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in 40 weekly installments in the Washington anti-slavery weekly The National Era.






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