<p>Not sure why everyone thinks the second passage was dry and void of commentary. There is sooooooo damn much to go into there. </p>
<p>All in all, easy exam. And yea, writing the authors name is fine, as long as it is clear that it is a citation</p>
<p>Finished the test about an hour ago. It was okay – a little on the hard side, but not too bad.</p>
<p>I felt that the MC passages went harder to easier. For the essays, I feel that my rhetorical analysis was best; my synthesis was okay, but I didn’t use a couple of the sources effectively, and my argument was basically rushed.</p>
<p>@doctorg: Yes, that’s fine. On the assignment page, it says you can refer to the sources by letter or by the shorthands they gave (usually author name).</p>
<p>Am I the only one who thought the rhetorical analysis easy?</p>
<p>I thought the synthesis essay was easiest, followed by the argument, and then the rhetorical analysis. All of them were easy though.</p>
<p>No you’re not.</p>
<p>Rhetorical analysis was easy. There were so many appeals and stuff. I think 2nd essay, then last essay, then synthesis in order of increasing difficulty.</p>
<p>Rhetorical analysis was mad easy, probably because my class practiced it so much. I mean, there are so many tools that you can throw in there! Honestly, if you just pick random rhetorical tools, chances are they will work some way.</p>
<p>Yeah, I had ethos, religious references, historical references, polite and considerate tone, etc. Did anyone else also use that he quoted Jefferson himself from the DOI? I thought that was a bit ironic lol.</p>
<p>do you guys think ill be docked for using 5 paragraph format on the synthesis essay? just curious "/ it was on accident lol</p>
<p>Last year I used the 5 paragraphs on each of my essays, and I got a 4</p>
<p>A better word for references though probably would have been rhetorical terms related to that. Like anamnesis, allusion, etc? and yeah, the DOI was interesting</p>
<p>@RocknPiano - I did 
I basically talked about everything you mentioned, actually.</p>
<p>i wrote a satire for the synthesis! hahahaha</p>
<p>i thought the test was so easy, i wrote 5 pages for the first essay and 4 pages for the last two essays.</p>
<p>charlie, they wouldn’t be allusions because they weren’t indirectly referenced, he just flat out said it.</p>
<p>did anyone not skip any for the MC??? I’m seriously regretting having the boldness to answer all the MC questions now…did the same for Lit test as well.</p>
<p>Touche, I guess i was speaking more generally than actually specifically about your references.</p>
<p>yeah I did that skylarkin, I don’t like skipping any questions because if I skip 10 and get 6 right and 4 wrong, that’s only -1 as opposed to not 6 points. I just don’t like the idea of skipping questions.</p>
<p>@Skylarkin - I didn’t skip any. I felt pretty confident on them. Plus, I hate skipping questions…</p>
<p>Did anyone else use pathos for the rhetorical analysis? I used it when the author talked about the “horrors of slavery”.</p>