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It might have been a bummer to discover that the "critical" in "critical reading" did not mean you could yell things like, "Who's your daddy now, Dickens?" during a test, but cheer up, MacShmoopers. Shmoop's guide to the AP English Literature exam will help you navigate the murky waters of literature...critically.
What's inside our Online AP English Literature Prep Course?
Extreme topic review (for the extreme student). Check out our in-depth study guide and practice problems galore on each of the topics below:
Terms of Literary Analysis
Multiple-Choice Questions
Essays: Understanding the Prompt
Essays: Thesis Statements
Essays: Structure
Essays: Intros, Paragraphs & Conclusions
Essays: The Two-Poem Comparison
Essays: Q3
Practice Drills
2 Full-Length Practice Exams
Test-Taking Tips & Strategies
Step-by-step guide to tackling your Essay Questions
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Test-Taking Tips
Specifically designed tips for mastering AP English Literature. Learn what the word "critical" actually means, how to decode—and beat—those pesky free response prompts, and the fine art of memorizing the mysterious language of literary analysis.
Two Full-Length Practice Exams
Curious about what it is really like to spend an hour reading 4 or 5 old-timey passages and answering approximately 60 multiple-choice questions—before devoting another two hours to writing three essays? Take a full-length practice exam with Shmoop...and then take another one. Because we have two.
Practice Drills
If you forget everything you read approximately three seconds after you read it, never fear: develop your mad literary analysis skills with drills, more drills, and—you guessed it—even more drills.
