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

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. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Acknowledgments Credits Introduction Getting Started: The Diagnostic Quiz Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnet 32” New Robert Yune, “Life from Plasticville” from Impossible Children Chapter 1 Pre-20th-Century Prose Louisa May Alcott, “An Old-fashioned Girl” Frances Burney, Evelina Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote Kate Chopin, “The Kiss” New William Congreve, The Way of the World: A Comedy (1895) Hannah Cowley, “The Belle’s Strategem” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment Euripides, Medea Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels Sophocles, Oedipus the King Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter 2 20th-Century/Contemporary Prose Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness New Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man New Susan Glaspell, “Suppressed Desires” Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, “Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life” Henry James, The Turn of the Screw James Joyce, “The Dead” Franz Kafka, “Metamorphosis” Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt New Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley New Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance New R. A. Sasaki, “Driving to Colma” New Zadie Smith, White Teeth Upton Sinclair, The Jungle New Ngugi wa Thiong’o, The River Between Virginia Woolf, “An Unwritten Novel” Chapter 3 Pre-20th-Century Poetry Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book” Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest ...” Jayadeva, Excerpt from Gita Govinda Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” Christina Rossetti, “Winter: My Secret” Phyllis Wheatley, “An Hymn to the Evening” Walt Whitman, “O Captain! My Captain!” William Wordsworth, “The world is too much with us” Countee Cullen, “I Have a Rendezvous with Life” Kahlil Gibran, “Defeat” Chapter 4 20th-Century/Contemporary Poetry New Pamela Hart, “Kevlar Poem” New David Hernandez, “I Made a Door” New David Tomas Martinez, “To the Young” New Dorothy Parker, “Men I Am Not Married To” New Tracy K. Smith, “The Good Life” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home” New Sara Teasdale, “From the Woolworth Tower” William Butler Yeats, “That the Night Come” Answers **500 Ways to achieve your highest score** __5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP English Literature Questions__