5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP English Language Questions to Know by Test Day, Second Edition
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Published on 13. January 2017
208 pages
978-1-259-83647-3 (ISBN)
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500 Ways to achieve your highest scoreWe want you to succeed on your AP* exam. That s why we ve selected these passages and multiple-choice questions for you to become skilled close readers who will have success on the AP English Language and Composition exam. The questions in this book will help you put yourself in the mind of a writer who thoughtfully chooses which words to use, what sentences types, what rhetorical techniques, what structure, what tone, etc. If you work through these passages and questions, you will do well on the exam!Each question includes a concise, easy-to-follow explanation in the answer key. You can use these questions to supplement your overall AP English Language preparation or run them shortly before the test. Either way, 5 Steps to a 5 500 English Language Questions will get you closer to achieving the score you want on test day.
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5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP English Language Questions to Know by Test Day, Second Edition
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Author
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Autobiographers and Diarists
- Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua
- Chapter 2 Biographers and History Writers
- James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson
- Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
- Winston Churchill, The Approaching Conflict
- Thomas Babington Macaulay, Hallam's History
- George Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
- Chapter 3 Critics
- Matthew Arnold, The Function of Criticism at the Current Time
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Shakespeare
- or, the Poet
- William Hazlitt, On Poetry in General
- Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance
- John Ruskin, Of the Pathetic Fallacy
- Chapter 4 Essayists and Fiction Writers
- Joseph Addison, True and False Humour
- Francis Bacon, Of Marriage and Single Life
- G. K. Chesterton, A Defence of Baby-Worship
- Charles Lamb, The Two Races of Men
- Michel de Montaigne, Of the Punishment of Cowardice
- Chapter 5 Journalists and Science and Nature Writers
- Margaret Fuller, At Home and Abroad
- or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe
- H. L. Mencken, Europe After 8:15
- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
- Thomas Henry Huxley, Science and Culture
- Charles Lyell, The Student's Elements of Geology
- Chapter 6 Political Writers
- Thomas Jefferson, Sixth State of the Union Address
- John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense
- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume 1
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Chapter 7 16th and 17th Centuries
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
- Thomas More, Utopia
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
- John Milton, Areopagitica
- Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
- Chapter 8 18th Century
- Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Samuel Johnson, Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Government
- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
- Richard Steele, The Tatler
- Chapter 9 19th Century
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria
- Susan B. Anthony, On Women's Right to Vote
- Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
- Chapter 10 20th Century
- Willa Cather, On the Art of Fiction
- W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Man-Made World
- or, Our Androcentric Culture
- George Santayana, The Life of Reason
- Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labour
- Answers
