X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia
SE = Student Edition
TECH = Technology
The Course: An AP* English course in Literature and Composition should engage students in the careful reading and critical analysis of imaginative literature. Through the close reading of selected texts, students should deepen their understanding of the ways writers use language to provide both meaning and pleasure for their readers. As they read, students should consider a work's structure, style, and themes as well as such smaller-scale elements as the use of figurative language, imagery, symbolism, and tone.
Throughout the course, emphasis should be placed on helping students develop stylistic maturity, which, for AP* English, is characterized by the following:
| • a wide-ranging vocabulary used with denotative accuracy and connotative resourcefulness; | SE: 22, 89–90, 121, 123, 169, 211, 247–248, 250, 262, 269, 283, 287, 373, 380, 386, 473–474, 707, 716, 730, 741, 744, 748, 788–789, 797, 808–813, 836, 860, 883, 907, 932, 940, 949, 951, 953–954, 972–973, 996–1001, 1023, 1028, 1039–1040, 1065, 1090–1091, 1136, 1351–1356, 1498, 1799–1805, 1887–1891, 1893–1894, 2121–2126, 2131–2134, 2134–2146, 2148–2153, 2153–2156, 2156–2160, 2163–2166, 2171–2178 |
| • a variety of sentence structures, including appropriate use of subordinate and coordinate constructions; | SE: 22, 89–90, 121, 123, 169, 211, 247–248, 250, 262, 269, 283, 287, 373, 380, 386, 473–474, 707, 716, 730, 741, 744, 748, 788–789, 797, 808–813, 836, 860, 883, 907, 932, 940, 949, 951, 953–954, 972–973, 996–1001, 1023, 1028, 1039–1040, 1065, 1090–1091, 1136, 1351–1356, 1498, 1799–1805, 1887–1891, 1893–1894, 2121–2126, 2131–2134, 2134–2146, 2148–2153, 2153–2156, 2156–2160, 2163–2166, 2171–2178 |
| • a logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques of coherence such as repetition, transitions, and emphasis; | SE: 22, 89–90, 121, 123, 169, 211, 247–248, 250, 262, 269, 283, 287, 373, 380, 386, 473–474, 707, 716, 730, 741, 744, 748, 788–789, 797, 808–813, 836, 860, 883, 907, 932, 940, 949, 951, 953–954, 972–973, 996–1001, 1023, 1028, 1039–1040, 1065, 1090–1091, 1136, 1351–1356, 1498, 1799–1805, 1887–1891, 1893–1894, 2121–2126, 2131–2134, 2134–2146, 2148–2153, 2153–2156, 2156–2160, 2163–2166, 2171–2178 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| • a balance of generalization with specific illustrative detail; and | SE: 22, 53, 89–90, 109, 121, 123, 131, 169, 178, 191, 211, 233, 247–248, 250, 262, 269, 283, 287, 335–336, 371, 373, 380, 386, 390–391, 404, 430–431, 442, 458, 473–474, 707, 709, 711, 713, 716, 727, 730, 741, 748, 753, 765, 769, 785, 787–789, 792, 797, 808–813, 836, 842–843, 848, 854–855, 860, 883, 890, 901, 907, 929, 932, 938, 940, 943, 949, 953–954, 965, 966, 972–973, 996–1001, 1005, 1011, 1015, 1019, 1023, 1028, 1039–1040, 1065, 1073, 1080–1081, 1084–1086, 1090–1091, 1136, 1139, 1141–1143, 1146–1148, 1150, 1152–1154, 1156–1157, 1159–1163, 1165–1168, 1172, 1174, 1176–1181, 1183–1187, 1189–1197, 1199, 1200, 1202–1207, 1209, 1211–1222, 1225, 1227–1234, 1236–1239, 1242, 1244–1245, 1247–1250, 1253, 1254, 1256–1268, 1317, 1331, 1343, 1351–1356, 1433–1434, 1488, 1498, 1601–1602, 1719–1721, 1785, 1799–1805, 1866–1867, 1887–1891, 1893–1894, 2121–2126, 2131–2134, 2134–2146, 2148–2153, 2153–2156, 2156–2160, 2163–2166, 2171–2178 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| • an effective use of rhetoric, including controlling tone, maintaining a consistent voice, and achieving emphasis through parallelism and antithesis. | SE: 22, 89–90, 123, 169, 211, 247–248, 250, 262, 269, 283, 287, 335–336, 373, 380, 473–474, 707, 709, 716, 730, 741, 748, 788–789, 797, 808–813, 836, 842–843, 848, 854–855, 860, 883, 907, 932, 938, 940, 949, 953–954, 972–973, 996–1001, 1015, 1019, 1023, 1028, 1039, 1141–1143, 1146–1148, 1150, 1152–1154, 1156–1157, 1159–1163, 1165–1168, 1172, 1174, 1176–1181, 1183–1187, 1189–1197, 1199, 1200, 1202–1207, 1209, 1211–1222, 1225, 1227–1234, 1236–1239, 1242, 1244–1245, 1247–1250, 1253, 1254, 1256–1268, 1331, 1343, 1351–1356, 1433–1434, 1488, 1498, 1601–1602, 1719–1721, 1785, 1799–1805, 1866–1867, 1887–1891, 1893–1894, 2130–2131, 2132–2134, 2134–2146, 2148–2153, 2153–2156, 2156–2160, 2163–2166, 2171–2178 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| The writing required in an AP* English Literature and Composition course is thus more than a mere adjunct to the study of literature. The writing that students produce in the course reinforces their reading. Since reading and writing stimulate and support one another, they should be taught together in order to underscore both their common and their distinctive elements. | |
There is no recommended or required reading list for the AP* English Literature and Composition course. The following authors are provided simply to suggest the range and quality of reading expected in the course. Teachers may select authors from the names below or may choose others of comparable quality and complexity.
| Poetry | |
| W. H. Auden | SE: 374–375, 377, 714, 733–734, 793, 841, 849–850, 871, 914, 920, 925, 928–929, 1039, 1080–108, 1094, 1144–1146, 1270, 1792, 2119 |
| Elizabeth Bishop | SE: 754, 766n, 793–794, 809–813, 849, 928–929, 1005, 1039, 1094, 1147–1148, 1270–1271, 2210–2211 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| William Blake | SE: 705, 725, 739, 779–780, 788, 871, 878, 888, 895, 981, 1271, 2212, 2237, 2249–2251 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Anne Bradstreet | SE: 719–720, 723 |
| E. K. Brathwaite | |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | SE: 697, 781, 856–858, 889, 905, 1094, 1152–1153, 1272 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Robert Browning | SE: 704, 711–713, 731, 744, 887, 888, 897, 1067, 1106, 1154–1156, 1273, 2202, 2205–2207 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Lord Byron | SE: 847, 872, 894, 901, 952, 1070 |
| Lorna Dee Cervantes | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | SE: 910, 1156–1157 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | SE: 701, 705, 760, 763, 825, 841, 847, 898, 1093, 1158–1159 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| H. D. | SE: 799, 804, 832, 979, 997–1001, 1278 |
| Emily Dickinson | SE: 721, 729, 796, 818–819, 821, 823, 846, 864, 973, 894, 957, 958, 1069, 1093, 1097, 1098–1107, 1108–15, 2232, 2234–2235 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| John Donne | SE: 714, 753, 885, 913, 1137, 1162–1165, 1275 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Rita Dove | SE: 976, 1129, 1165–1166, 1276 |
| T. S. Eliot | SE: 702, 711, 719, 751, 756, 763, 792, 841, 880, 881, 937, 956–957, 962, 976, 981, 987, 1033, 1094, 1167–1172, 1276 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Robert Frost | SE: 698, 710–711, 714, 784, 826, 830, 832, 834, 876–877, 878, 894, 897, 907, 908, 919–920, 934, 962, 976, 988, 996, 1024, 1093, 1175–1178, 1276, 2148–2156, 2158–2163, 2165, 2184 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Joy Harjo | |
| Seamus Heaney | SE: 920, 1186–1187, 1278 |
| George Herbert | SE: 828, 945, 955, 960–961, 1190, 1279 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Garrett Hongo | |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | SE: 701–702, 706, 760, 797, 875, 898, 1075, 1093, 1191–1193, 1279, 2119, 2235 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Langston Hughes | SE: 849, 904–905, 924, 1008, 1116–1126, 1128–1236 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Ben Jonson | SE: 837–838, 890, 1196, 1281, 1722, 1786, 2115 |
| John Keats | SE: 749, 791, 801, 825, 847, 894, 909–910, 1106, 1197–1202, 1282, 2222 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Philip Larkin | SE: 823, 1019–1020, 1202–1203, 1282 |
| Robert Lowell | SE: 936, 1003, 1024, 1206–1207 |
| Andrew Marvell | SE: 719, 754, 825, 847, 894, 1208–1209, 2215–2216 |
| John Milton | SE: 13, 714, 732, 762, 763, 826, 862, 866, 867, 896, 909, 919, 931, 958, 1066, 1077, 1079, 1212–1213, 1284, 2215 |
| Marianne Moore | SE: 751–752, 814, 914, 1213–1214, 1285 |
| Sylvia Plath | SE: 711, 820, 1002, 1003–1005, 1013, 1222–1225, 1287, 2208 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Edgar Allan Poe | SE: 756, 886, 894–895, 955, 958, 1088–1089, 1095, 1112, 1225, 1287, 2123–2124, 2132–2138, 2140–2141 |
| Alexander Pope | SE: 702, 759, 862–863, 867, 870, 878, 888, 891, 901, 911, 1066, 1077, 1287 |
| Adrienne Rich | SE: 707, 714, 1016, 1230–1231, 1289, 2234 |
| William Shakespeare | SE: 701, 711, 731, 754, 757, 759, 777, 791, 814–816, 823, 824, 828, 840–841, 847,879, 887, 894–896, 909, 910, 917–918, 931, 1002, 1067, 1079, 1237–1238, 1291 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | SE: 817, 911, 1067, 1078, 1303 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | SE: 693 |
| Cathy Song | SE: 1243–1244 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | SE: 713, 785, 789, 815, 819, 829, 862, 863, 869, 889–890, 906, 909, 912–913, 1067, 1069, 1249–1250, 1293 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Derek Walcott | SE: 1007, 1257 |
| Walt Whitman | SE: 720–722, 802, 841, 873, 903, 935, 936, 940, 952, 1033, 1067, 1084–1085, 1106, 1129, 1258–1259, 1294, 2230–2231, 2235 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Richard Wilbur | SE: 786, 787, 898, 909, 1066, 1111, 1260, 1295 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| William Carlos Williams | SE: 706, 731, 748, 750, 799, 873, 902–903, 916, 932, 934, 939, 946–947, 967, 1261–1263, 1295, 2222 |
| William Wordsworth | SE: 727–729, 760, 770–771, 825, 865, 872, 978–979, 1066, 1067, 1086, 1093, 1263–1264, 1296, 2222, 2238, 2243–2245 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| William Butler Yeats | SE: 703–704, 706, 714, 750, 792, 864, 873–874, 886, 896, 897, 908, 920, 957n, 971, 981, 982, 1075–1077, 1085, 1095, 1267–1268, 1297, 1808, 2180, 2237 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Drama | |
| Aeschylus | SE: 1321, 1357, 1364 |
| Edward Albee | SE: 1869, 1870 |
| Amiri Baraka | |
| Samuel Beckett | SE: 1868–1869 |
| Anton Chekhov | SE: 1807, 1886, 2208–2210 |
| William Congreve | SE: 1333 |
| Oliver Goldsmith | |
| Lorraine Hansberry | |
| Lillian Hellman | |
| David Henry Hwang | SE: 1870, 2044–2058, 2059 |
| Henrik Ibsen | SE: 1304, 1319, 1806–1866, 1867–1868, 1886, 1888–1891, 2167 |
| Ben Jonson | SE: 1722, 1786, 2215 |
| Arthur Miller | SE: 1897–1968, 1969 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Molière | SE: 711 |
| Sean O'Casey | |
| Eugene O'Neill | SE: 1030 |
| Harold Pinter | |
| Luigi Pirandello | SE: 1808 |
| William Shakespeare | SE: 1303–1305, 1318, 1320, 1333, 1363, 1501–1602, 1604–1721, 1723–1785, 1786–1804, 1807, 1868, 1886, 1893, 1896, 1970, 2123, 2168–2170, 2215, 2219, 2223, 2227 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| George Bernard Shaw | SE: 1333, 1867 |
| Sam Shepard | SE: 1870, 2059 |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | |
| Sophocles | SE: 1304, 1320, 1321, 1332, 1357–1362, 1364–1433, 1434–1488, 1489, 1490–1497, 1807, 1886, 1893, 1970, 2219 |
| Tom Stoppard | SE: 1333 |
| Luis Valdez | |
| Oscar Wilde | SE: 1332, 2236 |
| Tennessee Williams | SE: 1893–1894, 1969–1971, 1972–2022, 2123, 2168n |
| August Wilson | SE: 1870, 2064–2113, 2114 |
| Fiction (Novel and Short Story) | |
| Chinua Achebe | SE: 475–478 |
| Kingsley Amis | |
| Rudolfo Anaya | |
| Margaret Atwood | SE: 497–501, 828, 1143, 1269 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Jane Austen | SE: 93, 293 |
| James Baldwin | SE: 53–76, 87–89, 2204–2205 |
| Saul Bellow | SE: 292 |
| Charlotte and Emily Brontë | SE: 284, 2234 |
| Raymond Carver | SE: 109–121, 121–122, 172–173 |
| Willa Cather | SE: 125, 292, 513–528 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Sandra Cisneros | SE: 554–555 |
| John Cheever | SE: 528–539, 2208 |
| Kate Chopin | SE: 125, 127–131, 210, 553–554, 2211–2212 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Colette | |
| Joseph Conrad | SE: 171, 252, 292 |
| Stephen Crane | SE: 3, 125, 215–233, 249, 290, 291, 940 |
| Anita Desai | |
| Charles Dickens | SE: 91, 92 |
| George Eliot | SE: 170, 289, 2234 |
| Ralph Ellison | SE: 555–566 |
| Louise Erdrich | SE: 1173 |
| William Faulkner | SE: 14, 25–36, 27, 29, 92, 125, 126, 173, 178–191, 210, 213, 252, 285, 958, 976, 2142–2143, 2148, 2225–2226, 2236–2237 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Henry Fielding | SE: 29, 292 |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | SE: 251, 2208 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Ford Madox Ford | |
| E. M. Forster | SE: 92, 475, 894, 2123 |
| Thomas Hardy | SE: 193, 285 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | SE: 14, 124–126, 251, 284, 289, 291, 584–594, 2180, 2239–2240 |
| Ernest Hemingway | SE: 1, 21, 24n, 173–178, 192, 209–210, 212–213, 252, 290 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Zora Neale Hurston | SE: 213, 594 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | SE: 604–612 |
| Henry James | SE: 28, 92–93, 122, 124, 251, 292, 293, 958 |
| James Joyce | SE: 14, 27–28, 93, 125, 213, 252, 289, 291, 293, 612–617, 976 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | |
| Joy Kogawa | |
| Margaret Laurence | |
| D. H. Lawrence | SE: 21, 94, 619–630, 706, 744, 977, 1283, 2229–2230 |
| Bernard Malamud | SE: 631–639 |
| Katherine Mansfield | SE: 639–643 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | SE: 14, 566–571 |
| Bobbie Ann Mason | SE: 172, 643–654 |
| Carson McCullers | |
| Herman Melville | SE: 92, 251, 252, 2148, 2243 |
| Toni Morrison | |
| Bharati Mukherjee | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | SE: 121, 289, 1007, 2124n |
| Flannery O'Connor | SE: 415, 416, 431–442, 443–458, 459, 462, 465–472, 474, 2142–2143, 2180 |
| Cynthia Ozick | |
| Katherine Anne Porter | SE: 94–101, 122, 285 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Jean Rhys | |
| Jonathan Swift | SE: 288 |
| Leo Tolstoy | SE: 24, 294–335 |
| Mark Twain | SE: 14, 23, 27, 291, 292 |
| John Updike | SE: 15–20, 122, 171, 192 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Luisa Valenzuela | |
| Alice Walker | SE: 102–109, 289, 2216–2218 TECH: Craft of Literature CD-ROM |
| Evelyn Waugh | |
| Eudora Welty | SE: 77–86, 955 |
| Edith Wharton | |
| John Edgar Wideman | |
| Virginia Woolf | SE: 27, 94, 293 |
| Richard Wright | SE: 291 |
| Expository Prose | |
| Joseph Addison | |
| Gloria Anzaldua | |
| Matthew Arnold | |
| James Baldwin | SE: 87 |
| James Boswell | SE: 759 |
| Thomas Carlyle | |
| Jesús Colón | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | SE: 754, 2222 |
| William Hazlitt | |
| Samuel Johnson | SE: 714, 758–759, 765, 827, 1093, 1489, 2238, 2249, 2250 |
| Charles Lamb | |
| Norman Mailer | |
| Mary McCarthy | |
| H. L. Mencken | SE: 2174 |
| John Stuart Mill | |
| George Orwell | SE: 252, 1067 |
| Richard Steele | |
| Lewis Thomas | |
| Henry David Thoreau | |
| Barbara Tuchman | |
| Virginia Woolf |
Reference: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/ (May 2003/2004)