5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP English Literature Questions to Know by Test Day, Second Edition

by Shveta Verma Miller

Overview

500 Ways to achieve your highest score

From the poems of Emily Dickinson to the works of Virginia Woolf there is a lot of subject matter to know if you want to succeed on your AP English Literature exam. That’s why we’ve selected these 500 AP-style questions and answers that cover all topics found on this exam. The targeted questions will prepare you for what you’ll see on test day, and help you study more effectively and use your review time wisely to achieve your best score.

Each question includes a concise, easy-to-follow explanation in the answer key. You can use these questions to supplement your overall AP English Literature preparation or run them all shortly before the test. Either way, 5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP English Literature Questions will get you closer to achieving the score you want on test day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781259836633
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date:	01/05/2018
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	475,202
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Shveta Verma Miller has taught English literature and English as a foreign language at the high school and college level in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She currently works as an instructional coach for middle and high school literacy specialists and English Language Arts teachers. She has a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, a master’s degree in modern literature from the University of London, England, and a master's degree in Education. She most recently taught AP English Literature in New York City public schools.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

Chapter 1 British Poetry 1

"Sonnet 32" Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1

"God's Grandeur" Gerard Manley Hopkins 4

"To His Coy Mistress" Andrew Marvell 6

"Winter: My Secret" Christina Rossetti 10

"The world is too much with us" William Wordsworth 14

"That the Night Come" William Butler Yeats 16

Chapter 2 American Poetry 19

"The Author to Her Book" Anne Bradstreet 19

"I Have a Rendezvous with Life" Countee Cullen 22

"Success is counted sweetest …" Emily Dickinson 24

"Morning at the Window" T. S. Eliot 26

"An Hymn to the Evening" Phyllis Wheatley 28

"O Captain! My Captain!" Walt Whitman 31

Chapter 3 World Poetry 35

"Defeat" Kahlil Gibran 35

Excerpt from Gita Govinda Jayadeva 38

"The Home" Rabindranath Tagore 41

Chapter 4 British Fiction 45

Evelina Frances Burney 45

Heart of Darkness (two passages) Joseph Conrad 48

Frankenstein Mary Shelley 55

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 58

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 63

"An Unwritten Novel" Virginia Woolf 66

Chapter 5 American Fiction 71

"An Old-fashioned Girl" Louisa May Alcott 71

"The Kiss" Kate Chopin 76

The Scarlet Letter (two passages) Nathaniel Hawthorne 80

The Turn of the Screw Henry James 87

Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 90

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 92

Chapter 6 World Fiction 97

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 97

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky 100

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 104

Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 106

"The Dead" James Joyce 109

"Metamorphosis" Franz Kafka 112

Chapter 7 Drama 117

"The Belle's Strategem" Hannah Cowley 117

Medea (two passages) Euripides 122

"Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life" Zora Neale Hurston Langston Hughes 128

Oedipus the King Sophocles 132

Chapter 8 Expository Prose 137

On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 137

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 140

Beyond Good and Evil (Translated by Helen Zimmern) Friedrich Nietzsche 144

Zhuangzi 147

Answers 151