5 STEPS TOA 300 AP English Literature Questions to know by test day Shveta Verma Miller New York Chicago San francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San juan Seoul Singapore Sydney TorontoPouca end SHVETA VERMA MILLER has taught English literature and English as a foreign language at the high school and college level in the United States, England, India, Japan, and China. Prior to that, she taught SAT preparation with both the Princeton Review and Kaplan, She has a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in modern literature from the University of London, England. Copyright © 2011 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 12345678910 111213 1415 QFR/QFR 19876543210 ISBN 978-0-07-175410-1 MHID — 0-07-175410-5 Library of Congress Control Number 2010935999 Trademarks: McGraw-Hill, the McGraw-Hill Publishing logo, 5 Steps to a 5, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of The McGraw-Hill Companies and/orits affiliates in the United States and other countries and may not be used without written permission. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The McGraw-Hill Companies is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. AP, Advanced Placement Program, and College Board are registered trademarks of the College Entrance Examination Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product. Series interior design by Jane Tenenbaum McGraw-Hill books are available at special quantity discounts to use as premiums and sales promotions or for use in corporate training programs. To contact a representative, please e-mail us at bulksales@mcgraw-hill.com. This book is printed on acid-free paper.Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 CONTENTS Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction — xiii British Poetry 1 Thomas Hardy, “Nobody Comes” 1 Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” 3 Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God's Grandeur” 6 Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” 9 William Wordsworth, “The world is too much with us” 12 William Butler Yeats, “That the Night Come” 14 American Poetry 17 Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book” 17 Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest...” 19 T. S. Eliot, “Morning at the Window” 21 Walt Whitman, *O Captain! My Captain!” 23 William Carlos Williams, “Contemporania” 26 World Poetry 29 Kahlil Gibran, “Defeat” 29 Jayadeva, Excerpt from Gita Govinda 31 Rabindranath Tagore, “My Country Awake” and “The Home” 36 British Fiction 41 Frances Burney, Evelina 41 Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (two passages) 43 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (wo passages) 50 Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 57 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray 62 American Fiction 67 Kate Chopin, “The Kiss” 67 Nathaniel Hawthorne, ‘The Scarlet Letter (two passages) 70 Henry James, The Turn of the Screw 76 Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (two pa 79 Upton Sinclair, The Jungle 84