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Where those designa- tions appear in this book, and the publisher was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial caps or all caps. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10—EB—13 12 11 10 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-285003-2 www.pearsonschool.com/advanced ISBN-10: 0-13-285003-6 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 Approaching the Multiple-Choice Exam Sample Practice Test 1 165 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 Approaching the AP Literature Essay Answers and Explanations for Sample Overview 77 Practice Test 2 201 Poetry Essay Prompts 93 Credits 207 BRIEF CONTENTS iii COPYRIGHT © 2012 PEARSON EDUCATION, INC. Detailed Table of Contents About Your Pearson AP* Guide vii Poetry Answers and Explanations 42 Preface viii “Bright Star” 42 “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 Composition Examination 6 Prose Multiple-Choice Questions followed by Answers and Explanations 47 Part II: A Review of Topics with Sample Overview 47 Questions 13 from A Tale of Two Cities by 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 Prejudice by 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 TOPIC 2 from “The Necklace” 64 Approaching the Multiple-Choice Exam 27 from “The Yellow Wallpaper” 65 Overview 27 from Pride and Prejudice 66 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 Macbeth by William Shakespeare 68 Poetry Multiple-Choice Questions from Mrs. Warren’s Profession by 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 iv DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS COPYRIGHT © 2012 PEARSON EDUCATION, INC. 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 Dollhouse by 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 Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko Overview 93 122 “On Monsieur’s Departure” by Elizabeth from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I 95 Fitzgerald 124 “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Anne Bradstreet 96 126 “To the Naked and the Nude” by Robert from “Araby” by James Joyce 127 Graves 97 from “The Interpreter of Maladies” by “Sonnet” by Billy Collins 98 Jhumpa Lahiri 129 “Hurt Hawks” by Robinson Jeffers 99 from “Blue Winds Dancing” by Tom “The Life of Trees” by Dorianne Laux 100 Whitecloud 131 “Traveling Through the Dark” by William from “Where Are You Going, Where Have Stafford 103 You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates 132 “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William from The Importance of Being Earnest by Butler Yeats versus “The World Is Too Oscar Wilde 134 Much with Us” by William Wordsworth from Othello by William Shakespeare 136 104 from Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 139 “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 DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS v COPYRIGHT © 2012 PEARSON EDUCATION, INC. 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 Section 1: Multiple Choice Questions 165 “Written After Swimming from Sestos to “How Beastly the Bourgeois Is” by D. H. Abydos” by Lord George Byron 196 Lawrence 165 “Ode on Melancholy” by John Keats 197 “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold 168 “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver 198 from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 170 Open Essay Prompt 200 from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 172 Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare 174 Answers and Explanations for Sample 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 Ilyich by 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 Multiple Choice Questions “Written After Swimming from Sestos to “How Beastly the Bourgeois Is” 179 Abydos” 206 “Dover Beach” 180 “Ode on Melancholy” by John Keats 206 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 vi DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS COPYRIGHT © 2012 PEARSON EDUCATION, INC. 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