Crash Course AP Literature

D Daisy Miller by Henry James (97, 03) Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (01) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (78, 83, 06) ...

MEASURES OF METER monometer One foot dimeter Two feet trimeter Three feet ...

STANZA TYPES couplet two-line stanza tercet three-line stanza quatrain four-line stanza quintain five-line stanza sestet six-lin ...

E East of Eden by John Steinbeck (06) Emma by Jane Austen (96, 08) An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99, 01, 0 ...

COMMON FIXED FORM POEMS Haiku: Haiku is a traditional Japanese fixed-form poem. It is structured in three lines, with five sylla ...

F The Fall by Albert Camus (81) A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (99, 04) The Father by August Strindberg (01) Fathers and ...

OTHER TYPES OF POEMS 1. Ballad: a short poem in song format (sometimes with refrains) that tells a story 2. Elegy: a poem, the s ...

G A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00) A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee (04, 05) Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04) The Glas ...

TWENTY “MUST READ” POEMS There are thousands of great poems and hundreds of great poets. This list is meant only to acquaint you ...

H The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill (89) Hamlet by William Shakespeare (88, 94, 97, 99, 00) The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood ...

Chapter 8 Basic Elements of Language ...

I The Iliad by Homer (80) The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (06) In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien (00) In th ...

J Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (78, 79, 80, 88, 91, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 00, 05, 07, 08) Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee (99) J.B. ...

In This Chapter Overview What Is Rhetoric? Key Terms Basic Rhetorical Strategies The Verbs of Rhetoric A Question of Grammar ...

K Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (08) King Lear by William Shakespeare (77, 78, 82, 88, 89, 90, 96, 01, 03, 06, 08) The K ...

OVERVIEW This chapter has two main purposes. The first is to fill in the gaps in terminology between fiction/drama and poetry. T ...

L A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines (99) Letters from an American Farmer by de Crèvecoeur (76) Light in August by William F ...

WHAT IS RHETORIC? Rhetoric is the use of language to persuade. In more general terms, rhetoric is the effective use of language ...

M Macbeth by William Shakespeare (83, 99, 03, 05) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (80, 85, 04, 05, 06) Main Street by Sinclair ...

KEY TERMS 1. abstraction: a concept or idea without a specific example; idealized generalities 2. abstract noun: ideas or things ...