<p>Regular meter wasn’t prevalent in the poem</p>
<p>@bruceparklee Regular meter probably, because tactile imagery was demonstrated with words like “concrete slab”, “slimy skin”, etc.</p>
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<p>The answer choice mentioned parenthetical comments. Parenthetical comments are little interjections made by the speaker (I liken them to side comments) and don’t always appear in parentheses.</p>
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<p>Yeah, sympathetic aside doesn’t seem quite right after I think about it.</p>
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<p>I dunno; I thought that reference was a little comedic relief. Common events makes even less sense to me.</p>
<p>I said let me count the ways/waves was sympathetic humor</p>
<p>It wasn’t just humorous, I think it said something like humorous pity actually. I didn’t see the frog poem as extremely dark.</p>
<p>@starchywinky I was under the impression he was bewitched by her</p>
<p>No definitely not humorous. It was something about connecting the two poems. The frog poem was super depressing- devoid of hunor</p>
<p>Argh, totally didn’t catch the snideness of the Marius passage</p>
<p>The Frog in the Swimming Pool
- Blended into his environment
- Unattractive and lonely
- “Let me count the waves” is compared to “let me count the ways” because it relates common events
- Doesn’t contain regular meter</p>
<p>Marius
- “Bless his heart” = ironic interjection
- Marius was not a bigot
- Death= overexaggerated
- Police were not satirized
- Muffing = spoiling the opportune moment to die
- Had Marius not died, he would have been an inconsequential figure
- Marius was seen as a minor talent
- Friends were relieved by his death</p>
<p>Lady Eustace
- Calculated allure
- Sir Florian is a victim
- Hair accesories
- Passage was broken down into parenthetical statements
- Her thin pink streak of heart indicated her contrived anger
- Sir Florian was bewitched by her</p>
<p>Ulysses
- Worldly attitude
- Ajax = latest to gain fame
- Usage of similes and metaphors
- (question about alms)
- Time was the most discussed
- The gods’ recognition was due to gained renown
- One has to constantly perform deeds to gain recognition</p>
<p>Despair
- Silent was the answer to the first question
- In was the word omitted</p>
<p>Rain- I agree with bewitched. I thought that was an easy one</p>
<p>Bewitched was the answer to the question of how Sir Forlain or whatever felt whenever she read poetry.</p>
<p>Those were two different questions. The judgmental one is how the narrator, not the Sir guy, felt towards her.</p>
<p>I put for the EXCEPT question, regular meter. The meter was all over the place for the frog poem right?</p>
<p>Rain we had very similar answers 
only two I didn’t put: parenthetical statements and time I said expository sentences with logical conclusions and heroism</p>
<p>I put bewitched as well</p>
<p>The tactile imagery and regular meter question only asked for one part of the poem, not the entire poem.</p>
<p>For the frog one- comparing two poems? There was one poem. It wasn’t typical humor, it was sympathetic humor because it was sad how he was alone</p>
<p>I took like 4 whole minutes labeling stressed and unstressed syllables! That stupid frog poem definitely did not have consistent meter! But other than that I think I got every single frog question wrong… Was one of the frog answers “isolated and unattractive”?</p>
<p>The touch of nature: an exceptional talent?</p>
<p>@NRNitz1 Hopefully they are right! Not all those answers are mine, though…we’re just trying to determine which ones are correct.</p>
<p>Isn’t stressed syllables foot/feet?</p>