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I am preparing to take Analyzing and Interpreting Literature. I am curious if there is any study guides I can use besides InstantCert. I have the 2015 CLEP official study guide and the Peterson's exams, but is there anything else? Also I am hearing about REA study guides, what is that?
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This one is tough to prepare for..I usually ask people these questions..
1.) Can you interpret basic poetry?
2.) Can you read old english in a form similar to the king james version of the bible and understand it?
3.) Do you know basic literary devices, simile, metaphor, allegory, etc?
If yes to all those, don't bother studying. Most people are't comfortable walking into any test without preparing, so I usually just tell them to memorize the literary devices, but I'm not even sure if that's necessary to pass this one. It's basically a freebie, don't spend too much time on it if you can do 1 & 2 above.
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REA - Research & Education Association. My kids always use these guides (if they are available for the exam they want to take).
Get a used REA study guide on Amazon - three practice exams to give you a feel for the exam.
Teenager easily passed this CLEP (score of 69) using the REA guide and a short poetry study.
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mednat Wrote:This one is tough to prepare for..I usually ask people these questions..
1.) Can you interpret basic poetry?
2.) Can you read old english in a form similar to the king james version of the bible and understand it?
3.) Do you know basic literary devices, simile, metaphor, allegory, etc?
If yes to all those, don't bother studying. Most people are't comfortable walking into any test without preparing, so I usually just tell them to memorize the literary devices, but I'm not even sure if that's necessary to pass this one. It's basically a freebie, don't spend too much time on it if you can do 1 & 2 above.
That is the best advice here, this is not an exam you can really study in the traditional sense for.
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Excellent advice, although "Old English" isn't readable by readers of modern English, middle English and Shakespearian English will certainly feature in the exam. Its probably the next test I'm going to take.
An example of "Old English" can be seen at 1:42 on this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOtmrFlC5I8
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Ok, thanks guys! 
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I had the REA guide as well as the Peterson's tests. As others have said, it's not one you can really study for but I used the practice tests to get me mentally into "analyze lit" mode.
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If you search on my name, I wrote something about how to use the ANSWERS in the REA guide to help you test well.
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(This post was last modified: 05-28-2015, 03:46 PM by clep3705.)
I read some great advice on this forum years ago that helped me pass. The advice was to silently read aloud the passages that are in older versions of English. How can you read aloud silently? Let me be the first to say I haven't articulated this as well as the person who originally gave that advice. I mouthed the words and went through all of the motions of forming the words, but I just didn't make any noise. I imagined how the passages sounded. It really did help.
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