Getting a high score on the GRE Literature Subject Test isn’t about memorizing every book and lit crit article ever written–it’s about targeting your test preparation. We teach you only the information you’ll need along with the best strategies for the test day. In this book, you’ll learn how to:

Use our strategies and techniques to boost your accuracy

Increase your pacing and familiarize yourself with the test format

Understand the books that will most likely appear on the test

Differentiate literary themes and schools of thought

Getting a high score on the GRE Literature Subject Test isn’t about memorizing every book and lit crit article ever written–it’s about targeting your test preparation. We teach you only the information you’ll need along with the best strategies for the test day. In this book, you’ll learn how to:

Use our strategies and techniques to boost your accuracy

Increase your pacing and familiarize yourself with the test format

Understand the books that will most likely appear on the test

Differentiate literary themes and schools of thought

Cracking the GRE Literature Test, 6th Edition also includes a full-length practice GRE Literature Subject Test.

Foreword vii

PART I: THE BIG PICTURE I

1 Orientation 3

2 What's on the Test 11

PART II: CRACKING THE SYSTEM  17

3 Basic Principles 19

4 Advanced Principles 29

PART III: CRACKING THE SYSTEM BY CRACKING THE BOOKS 49

5 Literary Terms, Verse Forms, and Schools of Criticism 51

6 What You Should Study 71

7 Homer and Other Masters 93

8 The A, B, and C Lists 105

9 The Last List 135

PART IV: THE PRINCETON REVIEW PRACTICE TEST 139

PART V: ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS 197

Paying for Grad School 101 241