Crash Course AP Literature

MOST FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS (1970–2008) (This list was also compiled by Sandra Effinger.) Frequency of Appearance Title, author ...

Chapter 9 Mastering Difficult Vocabulary “Too many students do not possess the vocabulary and do not understand the various nuan ...

8 Antigone by Sophocles Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya Candide by Voltaire The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The Jung ...

In This Chapter Overview Vocabulary List My Own Vocabulary List ...

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe Obasan by Joy Kogawa Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by To ...

OVERVIEW The following words were chosen from AP Lit released exams because they are generally difficult, may be archaic in mean ...

KEY DETAILS FOR THE MOST FREQUENTLY CITED WORKS The works listed below are shown in the same order as in the previous table, whi ...

VOCABULARY LIST 1. adamantine (adj): (from the noun adamant, which is a hard, crystallized carbon) firm in attitude or opinion, ...

serialized from December 1860 to August 1861 Main Plot/Idea/Concept: A poor young boy finds himself the recipient of some money ...

naivete (noun)/naïve (adj): innocence, inexperience nascent (adj): emerging, newly born or created ordain (verb): to appoint to ...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866- 1867 Main characters: Raskolnikov, Luzhin, Porfiry Petrovich, Svidrigailov, Ras ...

MY OWN VOCABULARY LIST In Chapter 10, Engaged and Active Reading, you are encouraged to annotate texts as you read and circle wo ...

Tags: Christian allegory, tale of the sea, individual vs. society, good vs. evil The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, publ ...

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parties who seem to want him dead. Tags: satire, loss of religious faith, power of bureaucracy, symbolism Light in August by Wil ...

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her own person teaches her about love and life’s joys and sorrows. Tags: dialect, self determination, quest, race and racism, fe ...

PART III: INTERPRETING READING PASSAGES ...

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, published 1977 Main characters: Milkman Dead, Pilate Dead, Macon Jr. Main Plot/Idea/Concept: M ...

Chapter 10 Engaged and Active Reading ...