5 Steps to a 5: 500 AP English Language Questions to Know by Test Day, Second Edition

Allyson Ambrose is a National Board Certified High School English Teacher at Brooklyn Technical High School.

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
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