500 AP English Literature Questions to know by test day
CHAPTER 1. British Poetry
Passage 1. Thomas Hardy, “Nobody Comes”
Passage 2. Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
Passage 3. Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”
Passage 4. Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”
Passage 5. William Wordsworth, “The world is too much with us”
Passage 6. William Butler Yeats, “That the Night Come”
CHAPTER 2. American Poetry
Passage 1. Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book”
Passage 2. Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest ...”
Passage 3. T. S. Eliot, “Morning at the Window”
Passage 4. Walt Whitman, “O Captain! My Captain!”
Passage 5. William Carlos Williams, “Contemporania”
CHAPTER 3. World Poetry
Passage 1. Kahlil Gibran, “Defeat”
Passage 2. Jayadeva, Excerpt from Gita Govinda
Passage 3. Rabindranath Tagore, “My Country Awake”
Passage 4. Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home”
CHAPTER 4. British Fiction
Passage 1. Frances Burney, Evelina
Passage 2. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Passage 3. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Passage 4. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Passage 5. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Passage 6. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Passage 7. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
CHAPTER 5. American Fiction
Passage 1. Kate Chopin, “The Kiss”
Passage 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Passage 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Passage 4. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Passage 5. Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
Passage 6. Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
Passage 7. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
CHAPTER 6. World Fiction
Passage 1. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Passage 2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Passage 3. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Passage 4. Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Passage 5. James Joyce, “The Dead”
Passage 6. Franz Kafka, “Metamorphosis”
CHAPTER 7. Drama
Passage 3. William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Passage 4. William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Passage 5. Sophocles, Oedipus the King
CHAPTER 8. Expository Prose
Passage 1. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
Passage 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Custom House” (Preface to The Scarlet Letter)
Passage 3. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Passage 4. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (Translated by Helen Zimmern)
Passage 5. Oscar Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray