AP English Language Semester One Final
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| 122624524 | Early National Period | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| 122624525 | Early National Period | Washington Irving | |
| 122624526 | Colonial Period | John Winthrop | |
| 122624527 | Colonial Period | Cotton Mather | |
| 122624528 | Colonial Period | Benjamin Franklin | |
| 122624529 | Colonial Period | Anne Bradstreet | |
| 122624530 | Early National Period | James Fenimore Cooper | |
| 122624531 | Romantic Period | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 122624532 | Romantic Period | Henry David Thoreau | |
| 122624533 | Romantic Period | Herman Melville | |
| 122624534 | Romantic Period | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| 122624535 | Romantic Period | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| 122624536 | Romantic Period | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| 122624537 | Romantic Period | Emily Dickinson | |
| 122624538 | Romantic Period | Walt Whitman | |
| 122624539 | Realistic Period | Mark Twain | |
| 122624540 | Realistic Period | Henry James | |
| 122624541 | Realistic Period | Bret Harte | |
| 122624542 | Realistic Period | Kate Chopin | |
| 122624543 | Modernist | Robert Frost | |
| 122624544 | Modernist | William Carlos Williams | |
| 122624545 | Modernist | Edna St. Vincent Millay | |
| 122624546 | Modernist | E.E. Cummings | |
| 122624547 | Modernist | Edith Wharton | |
| 122624548 | Modernist | Sinclair Lewis | |
| 122624549 | Modernist | Willa Cather | |
| 122624550 | Jazz Age | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 122624551 | Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes | |
| 122624552 | Harlem Renaissance | W.E.B. DuBuois | |
| 122624553 | The Lost Generation | Gertrude Stein | |
| 122624554 | The Lost Generation | T.S. Eliot | |
| 122624555 | The Lost Generation | Ezra Pound | |
| 122624556 | The Lost Generation | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 122624557 | Modernist | William Faulkner | |
| 122624558 | Modernist | John Steinbeck | |
| 122624559 | Modernist | Eugene O'Neill | |
| 122624560 | Contemporary Period | Eudora Welty | |
| 122624561 | Contemporary Period | John Updike | |
| 122624562 | Contemporary Period | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| 122624563 | Contemporary Period | Sylvia Plath | |
| 122624564 | Contemporary Period | Arthur Miller | |
| 122624565 | Contemporary Period | Tennessee Williams | |
| 122624566 | Contemporary Period | Ralph Ellison | |
| 122624567 | Contemporary Period | Gwendolyn Brooks | |
| 122624568 | Contemporary Period | Zora Neal Hurston | |
| 122624569 | Contemporary Period | Alice Walker | |
| 122624570 | Contemporary Period | Toni Morrison | |
| 122624571 | Contemporary Period | Maya Angelou | |
| 122624572 | English Renaissance | Sir Thomas More | |
| 122624573 | English Renaissance | Sir Thomas Wyatt | |
| 122624574 | Elizabethan Age | William Shakespeare | |
| 122624575 | Elizabethan Age | Christopher Marlowe | |
| 122624576 | Elizabethan Age | Edmund Spenser | |
| 122624577 | Elizabethan Age | Sir Walter Raleigh | |
| 122624578 | Elizabethan Age | Ben Jonson | |
| 122624579 | Jacobean Age | John Donne | |
| 122624580 | Jacobean Age | Francis Bacon | |
| 122624581 | Jacobean Age | Thomas Middleton | |
| 122624582 | Commonwealth Period | John Milton | |
| 122624583 | Commonwealth Period | Thomas Hobbes | |
| 122624584 | Commonwealth Period | Andrew Marvell | |
| 122624585 | The Restoration | Paradise Lost | |
| 122624586 | The Restoration | John Dryden | |
| 122624587 | The Restoration | John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester | |
| 122624588 | The Restoration | John Locke | |
| 122624589 | English Augustan Age | Jonathan Swift | |
| 122624590 | English Augustan Age | Alexander Pope | |
| 122624591 | English Augustan Age | Daniel Defoe | |
| 122624592 | English Romantic Period | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |
| 122624593 | English Romantic Period | William Wordsworth | |
| 122624594 | English Romantic Period | Jane Austen | |
| 122624595 | English Romantic Period | Lord Byron | |
| 122624596 | Gothic literature | Anne Radcliffe | |
| 122624597 | Gothic literature | Mary Shelley | |
| 122624598 | Victorian Period | Alfred Lord Tennyson | |
| 122624599 | Victorian Period | Elizabeth Barret Browning | |
| 122624600 | Victorian Period | Robert Browning | |
| 122624601 | Victorian Period | Matthew Arnold | |
| 122624602 | Victorian Period | Charles Dickens | |
| 122624603 | Victorian Period | Charlotte Bronte | |
| 122624604 | Victorian Period | George Eliot | |
| 122624605 | Victorian Period | Thomas Hardy | |
| 122624606 | Aestheticism and Decadence | Oscar Wilde | |
| 122624607 | Edwardian Period | George Bernard Shaw | |
| 122624608 | Edwardian Period | H.G. Wells | |
| 122624609 | Edwardian Period | William Butler Yeats | |
| 122624610 | Edwardian Period | Joseph Conrad | |
| 122624611 | Edwardian Period | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 122624612 | Edwardian Period | Henry James | |
| 122624613 | Edwardian Period | E.M. Forster | |
| 122661831 | Rogerian Argument | At type of argument where the competitors try to appel to either side on the use of emotions. | |
| 122661832 | Toulmin's Analysis | A successful argument theory that believes that all arguments must have a claim supported by data and have an underlying warrant. | |
| 122661833 | Argument Essay | Will have the words: defend, refute, or qualify | |
| 122661834 | Hubris | Arrogance; excessive self-pride and self-confidence | |
| 122661835 | Hamartia | An error of judgment, tragic flaw | |
| 122661836 | Tragic Hero | The leading character of a play who experiences a reversal of fortune or downfall in the course of the play | |
| 122661837 | Catharsis | Purification of emotion; any emotional discharge which brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension and anxiety | |
| 122661838 | Inciting Action | The action which starts the play moving | |
| 122661839 | Rising Action | Progress or movement of the tragic hero toward the peak of his fortunes | |
| 122661840 | Climax | The point where the hero's fortunes take a turn for the worse | |
| 122661841 | Falling Action | The action past the climax which sweeps the tragic figure toward his inevitable end | |
| 122661842 | Anagnorsis | The moment when the tragic figure is aware of the causes and the consequences of the tragedy | |
| 122661843 | Catastrophe | The defeat of the tragic figure | |
| 122661844 | Peripeteia | Reversal of fortune or fall from high to low | |
| 122661845 | Herman Melville | The author of the white whale (Moby Dick) | |
| 122661846 | Ken Kesey | The author of Sometimes a Great Notion | |
| 122661847 | Carl Sandburg | The poet who wrote "Fog" with the line On little cat feet | |
| 122661848 | Dylan Thomas | Author of "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" | |
| 122661849 | Langston Hughes | A dream deferred | |
| 122661850 | Voltaire | Dr. Pangloss | |
| 122661851 | T.S. Elliot | "April is the cruelest month" | |
| 122661852 | Coleridge | Author of "Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" with the line "stoppeth one of three" | |
| 122661853 | John Donne | Author of For Whom the Bell Tolls | |
| 122661854 | Thomas Hobbes | Author of the Leviathan with the theme that life is "nasty, brutish, and short" | |
| 122734459 | Parallelism | Expresses similar or related ideas in similar grammatical structures | |
| 122734460 | Asyndeton | Generates vehemence and speed by being a form of condensed expression words or short phrases, usually joined by conjunctions appearing in a series separated only by commas | |
| 122734461 | Polysyndeton | opposite of asyndeton. It is the use of muliple conjunctions | |
| 122734462 | Tricolon | Division of an idea into three harmonious parts, usually of increasing power | |
| 122734463 | Epanalepsis | The repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning. | |
| 122734464 | Anaphora | The repetition of words, phrases, or clauses at the beginning of successive sentences | |
| 122734465 | Epistrophe | The reversal of anaphora. It is the concluding of clauses or sentences with the same word or phrase | |
| 122734466 | Litotes | The expression of an affirmation by denying or negating its opposite | |
| 122734467 | Antimetabole | The repetition of certain words, but in reversed order. | |
| 122734468 | Chiasmus | The grammatical structure of the first clause or phrase is reverse in the second sometimes repeating the same words. | |
| 122734469 | Anadiplosis | Repeals at the beginning of the following sentence the last word or phrase of teh preceding sentence | |
| 122734470 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, or more lengthy grammatical structures, ranging from sentences to paragraphs | |
| 122734471 | Paradox | A statement that appears to be contradictory but in fact has some truth | |
| 122734472 | Metonymy | Substituting a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself | |
| 122734473 | Apostrophe | Directly address some abstract quality, some nonexistent personage, or someone not present n the immediate audience | |
| 122734474 | Genetic Fallacy | This fallacy hinges on a confusion of causal explanation with rational justification | |
| 122734475 | Argumentum ad hominem | This fallacy occurs when someone argues against a claim or position by attacking its holders in logically irrelevant ways | |
| 122734476 | Equivocation | This fallacy turns on switching the meanings of words used in the course of an argument | |
| 122734477 | Black-or-White Fallacy | Some terms are vague in the sense that they may apply to a range of things that is not sharply defined. | |
| 122734478 | Jumping to a Conclusion | This fallacy has to do with generalizing to a wider set of claims that the evidence offered supports | |
| 122734479 | Straw Opponent | This common strategy occurs when instead of attacking one's opponent's actual beliefs, the speaker attacks a less defensible position that superficially resembles the position held by the opponent. | |
| 122734480 | Begging the Question | If an argument depends for one of its reasons or assumptions on a statement that is identical or equivalent to the conclusion drawin it is "circular" or "question-begging" | |
| 122734481 | Loaded Questions | This fallacy occurs in a question that assumes the truth of one or more fallacies, but doesn't offer evidence to support them. | |
| 122734482 | Misrepresentation of references | Detecting this fallacy requires knowing the true context or statement on which an argument depends for support | |
| 122734483 | Post hoc ergo propter hoc | literally means "after this, therefore because of this"; Assuming that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident | |
| 122734484 | Face value | Rather than offereing any reasons, a persuader may try to get us to accept what he says on the basis of force of personality, intimidation or bullying, or appeal to a supposed authority who actually is not an expert on the subject. | |
| 122734485 | Ignoring the issue | Many a political candidate can be observed responding to a question by talking about something she or he wanted to talk about instead | |
| 122734486 | Us vs. Them | Does the speaker see two "sides" with the other side being in some way inferior or denigrated? | |
| 122734487 | Supremacy | Although there is nothing wrong with asserting superiority, it can suggest a need that is stronger than the desire to give a sound argument | |
| 122734488 | Absolute certainty | When someone asserts they know something based only on self-evidence, faith, or mythology |