AP English Literature & Composition

The AP English Literature and Composition course is intended to give students the experience of a typical introductory college literature course. It includes intensive study of representative works from various genres, periods, and cultures, concentrating on works of recognized literary merit. Students will learn to read deliberately and thoroughly, taking time to understand a work’s complexity, to absorb its richness of meaning, and to analyze how that meaning is embodied in literary form. Students in this course must take the CEEB AP Exam in English Literature & Composition.