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

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

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

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

by Shveta Verma Miller
5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP English Literature Questions to Know by Test Day, Third Edition

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

by Shveta Verma Miller

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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: 9781260474732
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 02/16/2021
Edition description: 3rd ed.
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Shveta Verma Miller taught English literature at the high school and college level in the United States and abroad for ten years. Now a teacher leader, she facilitates workshops on literacy instruction across the country and coaches teachers in their classrooms. Her articles about teaching, learning, and reading books with kids have appeared on Edutopia, Cult of Pedagogy, and Book Riot. Her book about teaching graphic novels, Hacking Graphic Novels, will be published in 2021. Visit ShvetaMiller.com for guidance on understanding and analyzing the passages and questions in this book and to provide feedback or discuss the answers with Shveta directly.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Credits xv

Introduction xvii

Getting Started: The Diagnostic Quiz 3

"Sonnet 32" Elizabeth Barrett Browning 5

"Life from Plasticville" from Impossible Children New Robert Yune 7

Chapter 1 Pre-20th-Century Prose 15

"An Old-fashioned Girl" Louisa May Alcott 15

Evelina Frances Burney 20

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes 22

"The Kiss" Kate Chopin 25

The Way of the World: A Comedy (1895) New William Congreve 30

"The Belle's Strategem" Hannah Cowley 33

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky 37

Medea Euripides 40

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 44

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 47

Frankenstein Mary Shelley 50

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 54

Oedipus the King Sophocles 58

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 61

Chapter 2 20th-Century/Contemporary Prose 65

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 65

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 69

Invisible Man New Ralph Ellison 72

"Suppressed Desires" New Susan Glaspell 74

"Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life" Zora Neale Hurston Langston Hughes 79

The Turn of the Screw Henry James 83

"The Dead" James Joyce 86

"Metamorphosis" Franz Kafka 89

Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 93

Midaq Alley New Naguib Mahfouz 95

A Fine Balance New Rohinton Mistry 98

"Driving to Colma" New R. A. Sasaki 101

White Teeth New Zadie Smith 104

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 107

The River Between New Ngugi wa Thiong'o 111

"An Unwritten Novel" Virginia Woolf 113

Chapter 3 Pre-20th-Century Poetry 117

"The Author to Her Book" Anne Bradstreet 117

"Success is counted sweetest …" Emily Dickinson 120

Excerpt from Gita Govinda Jayadeva 122

"To His Coy Mistress" Andrew Marvell 125

"Winter: My Secret" Christina Rossetti 129

"An Hymn to the Evening" Phyllis Wheatley 132

"O Captain! My Captain!" Walt Whitman 135

"The world is too much with us" William Wordsworth 138

"I Have a Rendezvous with Life" Countee Cullen 140

"Defeat" Kahlil Gibran 142

Chapter 4 20th-Century/Contemporary Poetry 147

"Kevlar Poem" New Pamela Hart 147

"I Made a Door" New David Hernandez 150

"To the Young" New David Tomas Martinez 153

"Men I Am Not Married To" New Dorothy Parker 156

"The Good Life" New Tracy K. Smith 158

"The Home" Rabindranath Tagore 160

"From the Woolworth Tower" New Sara Teasdale 163

"That the Night Come" William Butler Yeats 167

Answers 171

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