Pearson AP Literature Test Prep Workbook

216 Pages·2011·0.87 MB·English

Pearson Education
AP* Test Prep Series
AP Literature
and Composition
Steven F. Jolliffe
Richard McCarthy
St. Johnsbury Academy
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Brief Contents
About Your Pearson AP* Guide vii Poetry Essay Prompts Answers
and Explanations 108
Preface viii
Prose Essay Prompts 115
Part I:Introduction to the AP Literature Prose Essay Prompts Answers
and Composition Examination 1 and Explanations 143
Open Essay Prompts 151
Part II:A Review of Topics with Sample
Questions 13
Part III:Sample Tests 163
TOPIC 2
Sample Practice Test 1 165
Approaching the Multiple-Choice Exam
Overview 27
Section 1: Multiple-Choice Questions 165
Poetry Multiple-Choice Questions 31
Section 2: Essays 176
Poetry Answers and Explanations 42
Answers and Explanations for Sample
Prose Multiple-Choice Questions 47 Practice Test 1 179
Prose Answers and Explanations 62
Sample Practice Test 2 185
Drama Multiple-Choice Questions 67
Section 1: Multiple-Choice Questions 165
Drama Answers and Explanations 74
Section 2: Essays 196
TOPIC 3
Answers and Explanations for Sample
Approaching the AP Literature Essay
Practice Test 2 201
Overview 77
Poetry Essay Prompts 93 Credits 207
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Detailed Table of Contents
About Your Pearson AP* Guide vii Poetry Answers and Explanations 42
“Bright Star” 42
Preface viii
“Dulce et Decorum Est” 43
Part I:Introduction to the AP Literature
“Hawk Roosting” 44
and Composition Examination 1
“Sonnet” 45
The Advanced Placement Program 3 “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” 46
Understanding the AP Literature and
Prose Multiple-Choice Questions
Composition Examination 6
followed by Answers and Explanations 47
Part II:A Review of Topics with Sample Overview 47
Questions 13 from A Tale of Two Citiesby Charles
TOPIC 1 Dickens 48
Literary Analysis—How to approach the AP from “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka
Literary Passages 15 51
Annotating the Text 15 from “The Necklace” by Guy de
Organizational T-Charts 17 Maupassant 54
Aristotle and the Rhetorical Device Box 18 from “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte
Approaching the Novel 21 Perkins Gilman 57
Role of a Novel’s Structure 21 from Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen
Role of Characterization and Character 60
Development 22
Prose Answers and Explanations 62
Motifs 23
from A Tale of Two Cities 62
Test Preparation with the Novels 24
from “A Hunger Artist” 63
from “The Necklace” 64
TOPIC 2
Approaching the Multiple-Choice Exam 27 from “The Yellow Wallpaper” 65
from Pride and Prejudice 66
Overview 27
Format 27 Drama Multiple-Choice Questions
Types of Questions 28 followed by Answers and Explanations 67
Most Common Terms 29 Overview 31
Question Formats 30 from Macbethby William Shakespeare 68
Poetry Multiple-Choice Questions from Mrs. Warren’s Professionby George
followed by Answers and Explanations 31 Bernard Shaw 71
Overview 31
Drama Answers and Explanations 74
“Bright Star” by John Keats 32
from Macbeth 74
“Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
from Mrs.Warren’s Profession 75
34
“Hawk Roosting” by Ted Hughes 36 TOPIC 3
“Sonnet” by Elizabeth Bishop 38 Approaching the AP Literature Essay 77
“I Felt a Funeral in My Brain” by Emily Overview 77
Dickinson 40 The Nature of Timed Writing 77
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Approaches to Writing the AP Essay in a “I, Too” versus “I Hear America Singing”
Timed Environment 78 113
Analyzing and Responding to the
Prose Essay Prompts followed by
Prompts 78
Answers and Explanations
Writing the AP Essay 79
Overview 115
The AP 1–9 Grading Scale 80
from A Dollhouseby Henrik Ibsen 117
Sample Essays with Scores and
from “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
Explanations 82
by Katherine Anne Porter 119
Poetry Essay Prompts followed by from “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan 121
Answers and Explanations 93 from Ceremonyby Leslie Marmon Silko
Overview 93 122
“On Monsieur’s Departure” by Elizabeth from The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott
Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I 95 Fitzgerald 124
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” by from Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad
Anne Bradstreet 96 126
from “Araby” by James Joyce 127
“To the Naked and the Nude” by Robert
from “The Interpreter of Maladies” by
Graves 97
Jhumpa Lahiri 129
“Sonnet” by Billy Collins 98
from “Blue Winds Dancing” by Tom
“Hurt Hawks” by Robinson Jeffers 99
Whitecloud 131
“The Life of Trees” by Dorianne Laux 100
from “Where Are You Going, Where Have
“Traveling Through the Dark” by William
You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates 132
Stafford 103
from The Importance of Being Earnestby
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William
Oscar Wilde 134
Butler Yeats versus “The World Is Too
from Othelloby William Shakespeare 136
Much with Us” by William Wordsworth
from Oedipus Rexby Sophocles 139
104
“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley Poetry Essay Prompts Answers
versus “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by and Explanations 143
Robert Frost 105 from A Doll’s House 143
“I, Too” by Langston Hughes versus “I from “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
Hear America Singing” by Walt 143
Whitman 106 from “Two Kinds” 144
from Ceremony 144
Poetry Essay Prompts Answers
from The Great Gatsby 145
and Explanations 108
from Heart of Darkness 145
“On Monsieur’s Departure” 108
from “Araby” 146
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” 109
from “The Interpreter of Maladies” 146
“To the Naked and the Nude” 109
from “Blue Winds Dancing” 147
“Sonnet” 110
from “Where Are You Going, Where Have
“Hurt Hawks” 110
You Been?” 147
“The Life of Trees” 111
from The Importance of Being Earnest 148
“Traveling Through the Dark” 111
from Othello 148
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” versus “The
from Oedipus Rex 149
World Is Too Much with Us” 112
“Ozymandias” versus “Nothing Gold Can Open Essay Prompts 151
Stay” 113 Overview 151
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Open Essay Prompt A 152 Sample Practice Test 2 185
Open Essay Prompt B 153
Section 1: Multiple Choice Questions 185
Open Essay Prompt C 154
“The Author to Her Book” by Anne
Open Essay Prompt D 155
Bradstreet 185
Open Essay Prompt E 156
from “The Minister’s Black Veil” by
Open Essay Prompt F 157
Nathaniel Hawthorne 188
Open Essay Prompt G 158
“Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington
Open Essay Prompt H 159
Robinson 190
Open Essay Prompt I 160
“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley
Open Essay Prompt J 161
Hopkins 192
“The Lady with the Pet Dog” by Anton
Part III:Sample Tests 163 Chekhov 194
Sample Practice Test 1 165 Section 2: Essays 196
“Written After Swimming from Sestos to
Section 1: Multiple Choice Questions 165
Abydos” by Lord George Byron 196
“How Beastly the Bourgeois Is” by D. H.
“Ode on Melancholy” by John Keats 197
Lawrence 165
“Cathedral” by Raymond Carver 198
“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold 168
from Frankensteinby Mary Shelley 170 Open Essay Prompt 200
from Invisible Manby Ralph Ellison 172
Answers and Explanations for Sample
Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare 174
Practice Test 2 201
Section 2: Essays 176
Multiple Choice Questions
“The Bull Moose” by Alden Nowlan 176
“The Author to Her Book” 201
The Death of Ivan Ilyichby Leo Tolstoy
from “The Minister’s Black Veil” 202
177
“Richard Cory” 203
Open Essay Prompt 178 “God’s Grandeur” 204
“The Lady with the Pet Dog” 205
Answers and Explanations for Sample
Practice Test 1 179 Essays
“Written After Swimming from Sestos to
Multiple Choice Questions
Abydos” 206
“How Beastly the Bourgeois Is” 179
“Ode on Melancholy” by John Keats 206
“Dover Beach” 180
from Frankenstein 181 “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver 206
from Invisible Man 182
Credits 216
Sonnet 60 183
Essays
“The Bull Moose” 184
The Death of Ivan Ilyich 184
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About Your Pearson AP* Guide
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Preface
As a student in an Advanced Placement (AP) Literature and Composition class,
you probably have some questions about how the whole AP program works and
how it can benefit you. Also, since you will probably be taking an AP Literature
and Composition Examination, and you want to find out more about it. This
book will help you in several important ways. The first part of this book intro-
duces you to the AP Literature and Composition course and the AP Literature
and Composition Exam. You’ll learn helpful details about the different question
formats—multiple-choice and free-response—that you’ll encounter on the
exam. In addition, you’ll find many test-taking strategies that will help you pre-
pare for the exam.
Part II of this book gives you assistance in writing literary analysis, such as
using MIST and Chunking (see Topic 1). The other section of Topic 1 will help
you read and understand the novel: to know how a novel is structured, compre-
hend the role of characterization and character development, identify motifs
and symbols, and be able to apply “tips” to see a novel's theme. This section also
offers you a Book Review Sheet. In Topic 2 of Part II, the book gives you more
tools for approaching the AP exam and gives you practice in answering multi-
ple-choice questions and essay prompts. These are followed by answers and
explanations to help you understand how to achieve a quality response.
Finally, in Part III, you will find two full-length sample tests. These will
help you practice taking the exam under real-life testing conditions. The more
familiar you are with the AP Literature and Composition Exam ahead of time,
the more comfortable you’ll be on testing day.
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Part I
Introduction to the
AP Literature and
Composition Examination
This section gives an overview
of the Advanced Placement program
and the AP Literature and Composition
Examination. Part I introduces the types
of questions you will encounter on the
exam, explains the procedures used to
grade the exam, and provides helpful test-
taking strategies. Review Part I carefully
before trying the sample test items
in Part II and Part III.
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