AP Review - Prose
Based on the handout previously given that provides a brief overview of literary movements, use the links below to ensure that you have a good understanding of the characteristics of each movement. Make your own notes on the handout with characteristics of each movement and notes on the texts provided about how they fulfill the characteristics. For each work you read, ask yourself why is this a good example of this movement?
Classicism:
On the Nature of Tragedy - Aristotle
On His Blindness - John Milton
An Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
Realism:
A Passion in the Desert - Honore de Balzac
The Bet - Anton Chekhov
Was it Heaven? Or Hell? - Mark Twain
Afterward - Edith Wharton
Romanticism:
Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe
The Fiddler - Herman Melville
Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving
Impressionism:
Bliss - Katherine Mansfield
Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin
the Lagoon - Joseph Conrad
Expressionism:
The Hollow Men - T.S. Eliot
Naturalism:
To Build a Fire - Jack London
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky - Stephen Crane
On the Nature of Tragedy - Aristotle
On His Blindness - John Milton
An Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
Realism:
A Passion in the Desert - Honore de Balzac
The Bet - Anton Chekhov
Was it Heaven? Or Hell? - Mark Twain
Afterward - Edith Wharton
Romanticism:
Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe
The Fiddler - Herman Melville
Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving
Impressionism:
Bliss - Katherine Mansfield
Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin
the Lagoon - Joseph Conrad
Expressionism:
The Hollow Men - T.S. Eliot
Naturalism:
To Build a Fire - Jack London
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky - Stephen Crane