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Free CLEP Composition and Literature Exam Braindumps (page: 9)

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All of the following are known primarily as poets active during the American Romantic period EXCEPT

  1. Lowell
  2. Longfellow
  3. Emerson
  4. Whitman
  5. Dickinson

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Although Emerson wrote during the Romantic period, he – along with Thoreau and Holmes – was known primarily as an essayist, not a poet.



Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

The passage above is from the work of

  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Edith Wharton
  4. Louisa May Alcott
  5. Kate Chopin

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

The passage is from the opening paragraph of Emerson’s Nature (1836). Nature explains the main principle of Transcendentalism, the concept of a “mystical unity of nature.” Emerson urged independent thinking and encouraged readers to learn from life rather than from books alone.



Which Boston Brahmin poet published The Courtship of Miles Standish in 1858?

  1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  2. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  3. John Greenleaf Whittier
  4. Emily Dickinson
  5. Henry David Thoreau

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published The Courtship of Miles Standish in 1858. Of the other answer choices, only Oliver Wendell Holmes is numbered among the Brahmin Poets.



What is the setting for the protagonist’s walk with the devil in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown?

  1. The gardens of a country estate
  2. A path in the forest
  3. The streets of a slum community
  4. A church graveyard
  5. The halls of a courthouse

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Young Goodman Brown leaves his wife Faith to walk through a dark and forbidding forest with the devil.






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