Alphabetical Listing/Index to AP English
Literary Terms & Representative Authors
N.
Lund/Oxford Tutorials.
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FIRST SEMESTER: Literary Terms
(No quiz Week 1)
Week 2
Abstract diction
Action (narrative)
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Ambiguity
Analogy
Week 3
Antagonist
Anthropomorphism
Aphorism
Apostrophe
Argumentative essay
Assonance
Blank Verse
Week 4
Book Review
Catastrophe
Character
Chiasm
Climax
Conceit (poetic)
Concrete diction
Week 5
Conflict
Connotation
Context
Deconstruction
Denotation
Denouement
Descriptive essay
Week 6
Deus ex machina
Dialogue
Diction
Digression
Double-entendre
Elegy
Epic
Week 7
Epistolary novel
Epithet
Essay (types)
Expository essay
Five-paragraph essay
Figurative language
Foreshadowing
Week 8
Frame story
Free Verse
Genre
Heroic couplet
Hyperbole
Image as Text
Imagery
Week 9
Interpretation
Irony
Juxtaposition
Letter to the editor
Lyric
Malapropism
Maxim
Week 10
Metaphor
Meter
Metonymy
Modernism
Mood
Motif
Week 11
Narrative essay
Narrator
Onomatapoeia
Oxymoron
Paradox
Parody
Personification
Week 12
Persuasive essay
Plagiarism
Plot
Point of View
Postmodernism
Prose
Week 13
Protagonist
Pun
Punctuation
Satire
Setting
Simile
Week 14
Soliloquy
Sonnet
Stream of
consciousness
Symbolism
Syntax
Week 15
Theme
Tone
Understatement
Viewpoint
Voice
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SECOND SEMESTER: Representative Authors
Index to AP English Authors (Revised)
N. Lund/Oxford Tutorials
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Week 1
* Adler, Mortimer (1902-2001)
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
Auden, W.H. (1907-1973)
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Week 2
*
Barzun, Jacques (1907- )
Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989)
Blake, William (1757-1827)
Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Week 3
Burke, Edmund (1729- 1797)
Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1343-1400)
Chesterton, G.K. (1874-1936)
Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
Clark, Kenneth (1903-1983)
Week 4
Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924)
Coleridge, Samuel T. (1772-1834)
* Cooke, Alistair (1932-2004)
* Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
Dawkins,
Richard (1941- )
Week 5
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Donne, John (1572-1631)
* D'Souza, Dinesh (1961- )
Eliot, T.S. (1888-1965)
Week 6
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)
Foote,
Friedman, Thomas L. (1953- )
Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)
Week 7
Golding, William (1911-1993)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Hemingway, Ernest (1889-1961)
Hitchens, Christopher (1949- )
Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Week 8
* Johnson, Paul B. (1928- )
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Keller, Helen (1880-1968)
* Krauthammer, Charles (1950- )
Week 9
Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
* Larson, Edward J. (1952- )
Lawrence, Thomas E. (188-1935)
Lee, Harper (1926- )
* Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963)
Week 10
Macaulay, Thomas B. (1800-1859)
* McCullough, David (1933- )
Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873)
Milton, John (1608-1674)
Week 11
* Muggeridge, Malcolm (1903-1990)
Orwell, George (1903-1950)
Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703)
* Sayers, Dorothy (1893-1957)
Week 12
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Shaw, George B. (1856-1950)
* Stark, Rodney (1937- )
Steinbeck, John (1902-1968)
Week 13
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Thoreau, Henry D. (1817-1862)
Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805-1859)
Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
Week 14
*
Tyndale, William (1484?-1536)
Updike, John (1932- )
Vidal, Gore (1925- )
Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966)
White, E.B. (1899-1985)
Week 15
Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
Will, George (1941- )
Wilson, Edmund (1895-1972)
Yeats, W.B. (1865-1939)
(* Not mentioned in the AP lists but of
considerable cultural,
historical
and/or literary significance.)