5 Steps to a 5 500 AP English Literature Questions to Know By Test Day (5 Steps to a 5 on the Advanced Placement Examinations Series)

Organized for easy reference and crucial practice, coverage of all the essential topics presented as 500 AP-style questions with detailed answer explanations 5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP English Literature Questions to Know by Test Day is tailored to meet your study needs—whether you’ve left it to the last minute to prepare or you have been studying for months. You will benefit from going over the questions written to parallel the topic, format, and degree of difficulty of the questions contained in the AP exam, accompanied by answers with comprehensive explanations. Features: 500 AP-style questions and answers referenced to core AP materials Review explanations for right and wrong answers Additional online practice Close simulations of the real AP exams Updated material reflects the latest tests Online practice exercises Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 “Nobody Comes”......Page 16 “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”......Page 18 “God’s Grandeur”......Page 21 “To His Coy Mistress”......Page 24 “The world is too much with us”......Page 27 “That the Night Come”......Page 29 “The Author to Her Book”......Page 32 “Success is counted sweetest . . . ”......Page 34 “Morning at the Window”......Page 36 “O Captain! My Captain!”......Page 38 “Contemporania”......Page 41 “Defeat”......Page 44 Excerpt from Gita Govinda......Page 46 “My Country Awake” and “The Home”......Page 51 Evelina......Page 56 Heart of Darkness (two passages)......Page 58 Frankenstein (two passages)......Page 65 Gulliver’s Travels......Page 72 The Picture of Dorian Gray......Page 77 “The Kiss”......Page 82 The Scarlet Letter (two passages)......Page 85 The Turn of the Screw......Page 91 Babbitt (two passages)......Page 94 The Jungle......Page 99 Don Quixote......Page 104 Crime and Punishment......Page 107 Madame Bovary......Page 110 Siddhartha......Page 113 “The Dead”......Page 116 “Metamorphosis”......Page 119 Medea (two passages)......Page 122 Hamlet and Macbeth......Page 127 Oedipus the King......Page 133 On the Origin of Species......Page 138 “The Custom House” (Preface to The Scarlet Letter)......Page 141 Leviathan......Page 143 Beyond Good and Evil (Translated by Helen Zimmern)......Page 147 Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray......Page 150 Zhuangzi......Page 152 Answers......Page 156 Contents 6 Preface 8 Acknowledgments 12 Introduction 14 Chapter 1 British Poetry 16 “Nobody Comes” 16 “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” 18 “God’s Grandeur” 21 “To His Coy Mistress” 24 “The world is too much with us” 27 “That the Night Come” 29 Chapter 2 American Poetry 32 “The Author to Her Book” 32 “Success is counted sweetest . . . ” 34 “Morning at the Window” 36 “O Captain! My Captain!” 38 “Contemporania” 41 Chapter 3 World Poetry 44 “Defeat” 44 Excerpt from Gita Govinda 46 “My Country Awake” and “The Home” 51 Chapter 4 British Fiction 56 Evelina 56 Heart of Darkness (two passages) 58 Frankenstein (two passages) 65 Gulliver’s Travels 72 The Picture of Dorian Gray 77 Chapter 5 American Fiction 82 “The Kiss” 82 The Scarlet Letter (two passages) 85 The Turn of the Screw 91 Babbitt (two passages) 94 The Jungle 99 Chapter 6 World Fiction 104 Don Quixote 104 Crime and Punishment 107 Madame Bovary 110 Siddhartha 113 “The Dead” 116 “Metamorphosis” 119 Chapter 7 Drama 122 Medea (two passages) 122 Hamlet and Macbeth 127 Oedipus the King 133 Chapter 8 Expository Prose 138 On the Origin of Species 138 “The Custom House” (Preface to The Scarlet Letter) 141 Leviathan 143 Beyond Good and Evil (Translated by Helen Zimmern) 147 Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 150 Zhuangzi 152 Answers 156 "Organized for easy reference and crucial practice, coverage of all the essential topics presented as 500 AP-style questions with detailed answer explanations 5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP English Literature Questions to Know by Test Day is tailored to meet your study needs-whether you've left it to the last minute to prepare or you have been studying for months. You will benefit from going over the questions written to parallel the topic, format, and degree of difficulty of the questions contained in the AP exam, accompanied by answers with comprehensive explanations. Features: *500 AP-style questions and answers referenced to core AP materials *Review explanations for right and wrong answers *Additional online practice *Close simulations of the real AP exams *Updated material reflects the latest tests *Online practice exercises."-- Provided by publisher. "Shveta Verma Miller has taught English literature at the high school and college level, in the United States and abroad, for six years. Prior to that, she taught SAT preparation with both The Princeton Review and Kaplan for five years. She most recently taught AP English Literature and Comprehension at Brooklyn Technical High School in New York City."-- Provided by publisher. Contains five hundred practice questions, answers, and the explanation for the right and wrong answers to each question.