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Analyzing & Interpreting Literature |
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In order to do well on the Analyzing and Interpreting Literature test, you do not need to be familiar with specific works or to memorize anything; however, it is essential that you have a broad knowledge of literature and familiarity with basic literary terminology. Your text, The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing, seventh edition, by Michael Meyer, will provide you with example readings and will define terms for you.
Examination questions will be based on passages already in the test booklet; therefore, no previous knowledge of the passage is required. The exam will include approximately 80 multiple-choice questions to be answered within 90 minutes.
On the test, you will be required to do the following:
- Read prose and poetry with understanding;
- Analyze the elements of a literary passage and respond to nuances of meaning, tone, imagery, and style;
- Interpret metaphors, recognize rhetorical and stylistic devices, perceive relationships between parts and wholes, and grasp a speaker’s or author’s attitudes;
- Know the means by which literary effects are achieved; and
- Have familiarity with the basic terminology used to discuss literary texts.
This course covers the following areas: Poetry
Prose (fiction and nonfiction)
Drama
British Literature
American Literature
Works in Translation
Classical and pre-Renaissance
Renaissance and the 17th Century
18th and 19th Centuries
20th Century
(Taken from “Analyzing and Interpreting Literature,” CLEP: Analyzing and Interpreting Literature.) |
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