be poetic. if you find the way the light falls through your window and onto your bedroom wall pretty, write about it. call it soft and golden as sunlit honey. if it makes you glad to be alive then it’s not silly. you look for the beauty of things, be proud of that. say the heavy rain is kissing you. write about the glow of the moon, the dancing of flowers. make your world magical. collect your metaphors and treasure them.
if you are currently taking ap literature or you plan on it in the future (or just want a list of books to read) take note of the following books to help with the class/ ap exam:
books that show up the most on the ap exam:
1. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4. King Lear by William Shakespeare
5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
7. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
9. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
10. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
my personal favorites that can be used on the exam:
1. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. The Stranger by Albert Camus
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
6. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
7. The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
8. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
9. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
10. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
11. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
12. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
14. Out of Africa by Isaak Dinesen
15. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
16. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
other popular works of literary merit to use:
1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
2. Light in August by William Faulkner
3. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kid
4. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
5. Emma by Jane Austen
6. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
if you have any other suggestions, reply with them to help someone out! sorry this was long thanks for your time x