Mrs. Amanatullah, Ms. Burnside
hamantu@cuhsd.org
AP Literature 2015-2016 Google Drive:https://goo.gl/1lb8DC
rburnside@cuhsd.org
AP ENGLISH LITERATURE - SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2015
Your summer assignment has several sections, which will help introduce you to the major strands of study in AP
English. You may access all the necessary resource materials via the Google Drive link above.
The following will be due on the first day of class:
 Edith Hamilton Study Guide
 Bible Study Guide
 How To Read Literature Like a Professor Study Guide
 The optional drama assignment (if you choose to complete it)
The terms test, allusions test and in-class essays will be completed within the first three weeks of the school
year.
PART 1: AP Literary Terms Packet: It is vital that you be familiar with and able to correctly use the terminology of
literary analysis and criticism. Please study the list of literary terms. We have provided you a complete glossary of
terms in the Google Drive through this LINK. We would suggest your create vocabulary flash cards from which to
study, however, WE WILL NOT BE CHECKING THESE FLASH CARDS.
You will be given a test on these terms within the first few weeks of school. Level 2 of the test will require you to
match the term to its definition. You must get 100% on level 2 to move on to level 3. Level 3 of the test will
require you to identify examples of these literary techniques in a piece of literature. Level 4 of the test will require
you to both identify analyze how the techniques function in a piece of literature.
PART 2: Greek, Roman, Norse, Arthurian and Biblical allusions: Western literature makes countless references to
Greek, Roman, Norse and Arthurian mythology and to the Bible. Attached is a list of mythological and Biblical
allusions that a student of literature must be familiar with. (You may already be familiar with many of them).
You will be tested on these terms within the first few weeks of school. The various levels of the test are similar to
those on the literary terms test. You will need to match the person/thing to its explanation in level 2, and you must
get 100% on level 2 to move on to level 3. You will need to identify and explain allusions in a piece of literature on
level 3 of the test, and you will need to both identify and analyze how allusions function in a piece of literature for
level 4 of the test.
a)
To that end, a copy of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology will be checked out to you for the summer. We have
included a STUDY GUIDE for you to complete as you read the following sections:
 Part One: The Gods, the Creation, and the Earliest Heroes (I: The Gods; II: The Two Great Gods of
Earth; II: How the World and Mankind Were Created; IV: The Earliest Heroes)
 Part Two: Stories of Love and Adventure
 Part Three: The Great Heroes before the Trojan War
 Part Four: The Heroes of the Trojan War (I. The Trojan War; II: The Fall of Troy; III: The Adventures of
Odysseus)
 Part Five: The Great Families of Mythology (I: The House of Atreus and II: The Royal House of Thebes)
 Part Six: The Less Important Myths (I: Midas)
 Part Seven: The Mythology of the Norsemen
Mrs. Amanatullah, Ms. Burnside
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AP Literature 2015-2016 Google Drive:https://goo.gl/1lb8DC
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b) We also suggest that you read the following sections of the Bible. We’ve put together a STUDY GUIDE to
assist you.
 Genesis
 Job
 Exodus
 The Gospel of Matthew
 Psalms 22, 23, 95, 121
 The Gospel of Mark
PART 3: How to Read Literature Like a Professor: You can access an electronic copy of this book at the following
link: https://goo.gl/w4pKHw. You will be responsible for reading How to Read Literature Like a Professor in its
entirety. We have created a STUDY GUIDE for you to complete. We also strongly suggest you take detailed notes
on the book, and have provided you with a note-taking graphic to assist you, which you can find here. We will not
be checking those notes, however, you will be able to use any notes you take when you write an essay during the
first two weeks of school applying the techniques from HTRLLAP to the analysis of a short piece of fiction.
Optional Assignment -- Drama Review: You will undoubtedly find it helpful to attend a theater production of a
Shakespearean play. I recommend the productions of the Los Gatos Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Play On in
Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley Shakespeare, the California Shakespeare Festival in Orinda, or “Free Shakespeare in the
Park,” sponsored by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. Among the offerings this year are The Tempest, The
Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, Macbeth, Much Ado about Nothing, Twelfth
Night and King Lear. Perhaps some of you can attend the play together so you can enjoy it together and discuss it.
Following the performance, you should write a complete play review, typed and in MLA format, that will be added
to your grade as a non-required assignment. Submit your review to Turnitin.com. Use the following information to
submit your paper.
Class ID number: 9972166
Password: burnside
Google Drive: We have created a 2015-2016 AP Literature Class folder on Google Drive. You can access the folder
with this link: https://goo.gl/1lb8DC. We will periodically add information, documents to this folder. You can also
add things that you think your fellow students will find helpful.
Mythological and Biblical Allusions List
You will be responsible for knowing the following allusions from Classical or Biblical literature:
Arthurian Allusions
Guinevere
The Holy Grail
Biblical Allusions
10 Plagues of Egypt
Abram/Abraham
Adam
Ararat
Ark of the Covenant
Barabbas
Bethlehem
King Arthur
Lancelot
Tristan and Isolde
Cain and Abel
Caiaphas
Canaan
Crown of thorns
Eden
Eve
Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse
Garden of Gethsemane
Gold, Frankincense, Myrrh
The Golden Calf
Golgotha
Goliath
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Hagar
Harrowing of Hell
Herod
Isaac, Rebekah and Leah
Jacob and Esau
Job
John the Baptist
Joseph, son of Jacob
Joseph of Nazareth
Judas
King David
Last Supper
Lazarus
Leah and Rachel
Manna
Moses
Mt. Ararat
Nephilim
Noah and the Ark
Nod/East of Eden
Pharisees and Sadducees
Pontius Pilate
Potiphar’s wife
Saint Paul/Saul
Saint Peter/Simon
Salome
Samson and Delilah
Sarai/Sarah
Sermon on the Mount
Serpent
Simon Magus
Sodom and Gomorrah
Solomon
Susannah and the Elders
Thirty pieces of silver
Three Wisemen/Magi
Tower of Babel
Twelve Apostles
The Virgin Mary
Greek/Roman Allusions
Acheron
Achilles
Adonis
Aeneas
Aeolus
Agamemnon
Ajax
Antigone
Aphrodite/Venus
Apollo
Ares/Mars
Argus
Aristotle
Artemis/Diana
Athena/Minerva
Atlas
Brutus and Cassius
Cadmus
Calypso
Capaneus
Carthage
Castor and Pollux
Centaurs
Cerberus
Charon
Circe
Cleopatra
Clytemnestra
Cronus/Saturn
The Cyclops Polythemus
Daedalus
Demeter/Ceres
Dido
Diomedes
Dionysus/Bacchus
Electra
Epicurus
Eros/Cupid
Eteocles and Polyneices
Europa
The Fates/Moirae/Parcae
Fortuna
Furies
Hades/Pluto
Harpies
Hector
Hecuba
Helen
Helios
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Hera/Juno
Hercules
Hermes/Mercury
Hestia/Vesta
Hyperion
Icarus
Iphigenia
Ios
Ithaca
Janus
Jason and the Argonauts
Lares and Penates
Leda
Lethe
Medea
Medusa and the Gorgons
Menelaus
Midas
Minotaur
Mnemosyne
The Muses
Narcissus
Niobe
Odysseus/Ulysses
Oedipus
Orestes
Orpheus and Eurydice
Pan and the Satyrs/Fauns
Pandora
Paris
Patroclus
Penelope
Persephone/Proserpina
Perseus
Phaëthon
Poseidon/Neptune
Priam
Prometheus
Psyche
Pygmalion and Galatea
Pyramus and Thisbe
Pyrrhus/Neoptolemus
Remus
Romulus/Quirinus
Scylla and Charybdis
Selene/Luna
Semiramis
Sirens
Sisyphus
Styx
Telemachus
Thebes
Theseus
Tantalus
Thetis
Tiresias
Troy
Zeus/Jupiter
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Norse Allusions
Aesir
Asgard
Balder
Brynhild
Freya
Frigga
Gudrun
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Hugin and Munin
Loki
Midgard
Niflheim
Odin
Ragnarök
Sigurd
Thor
Tyr
Valhalla
Valkyrie
Yggdrasil
AP LITERARY TERMS
You will be responsible for knowing the following literary terms. Many of them should already be familiar to you.
Although we will not be collecting your flash cards, you will be held accountable for studying through a literary
terms test in the first few weeks of school.
Accent/beat
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Ambiguity
Analogy
Anaphora
Anastrophe
Anecdote
Antagonist
Anticlimax
Antihero
Antithesis
Aphorism
Apostrophe
Apposition
Archetype
Aside
Assonance
Asyndeton
Aubade
Ballad
Bathos
Black humor
Blank verse
Cacophony
Cadence
Canto
Caricature
Catharsis
Characterization
 Indirect characterization
 Direct characterization
 Static character
 Dynamic character
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Flat character
Round character
Chiasmus
Chorus
Cliché
Colloquialism
Comedy
Conceit
Conflict
 External conflict
 Internal conflict
Connotation
Consonance
Couplet
Denotation
Deus ex machina
Dialect
Diction
Didactic
Dirge
Dissonance
Elegy
Enjambment
Epic
Epigraph
Epistrophe
Epithet
Euphemism
Euphony
Explication
Exposition
Fable
Farce
Feminine rhyme
Figurative language
Flashback
Foil
Foot
Foreshadowing
Free verse
Genre
Heroic couplet
Hubris
Hyperbole
Imagery
In medias res
Interior monologue
Internal rhyme
Inversion
Irony
 Verbal irony
 Dramatic irony
 Situational irony
 Cosmic irony
Juxtaposition
Kenning
Litotes
Local color
Loose sentence
Lyric poem
Masculine rhyme
Metaphor
 Implied metaphor
 Extended metaphor
 Dead metaphor
 Mixed metaphor
Mrs. Amanatullah, Ms. Burnside
hamantu@cuhsd.org
AP Literature 2015-2016 Google Drive:https://goo.gl/1lb8DC
rburnside@cuhsd.org
Meter:
 Anapestic meter
 Dactylic meter
 Iambic meter
 Spondaic meter
 Trochaic meter
Plot
 Exposition
 Rising action
 Climax
 Falling action
 Resolution
Metonymy
Mood
Motif
Motivation
Narration/ narrative verse
Frame narrative
Nemesis
Objectivity
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Parable
Paradox
Parallel structure (parallelism)
Parenthetical phrase
Parody
Pastoral poetry
Pathos
Periodic sentence
Persona
Personification
Point of view
 First person point of view
 Third person point of view
 Omniscient point of view
 Objective point of view
 Second person
Impressionism
Modernism
Naturalism
Plain style
Polysyndeton
Protagonist
Pun
Pyrrhic meter
Quatrain
Refrain
Requiem
Rhythm
Rhetoric
Rhetorical question
Romance
Satire
Writing movements and styles to know:
Rationalism
Realism
Regionalism
Romanticism
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Formal or direct satire
Horatian
Juvenalian
Setting
Simile
Soliloquy
Stanza
Stock character
Stream of consciousness
Style
Suspense
Suspension of disbelief
Symbol
Synecdoche
Tall tale
Theme
Thesis
Tone
Tragedy
Tragic flaw
Tragic irony
Understatement
Utopia
Vernacular
Surrealism
Symbolism
Transcendentalism