AP English Lit on Thursday

<p>Judgmental for sure. That narrator really didn’t like her. Everything he said about her was defamatory, even compliments about her physical attractiveness haha</p>

<p>The Frog in the Swimming Pool

  1. Blended into his environment
  2. Unattractive and lonely
  3. “Let me count the waves” is compared to “let me count the ways” because it relates common events
  4. Doesn’t contain regular meter
  5. Touch of nature = similarities we share???
  6. I and II</p>

<p>Marius

  1. “Bless his heart” = ironic interjection
  2. Marius was not a bigot
  3. Death= overexaggerated
  4. Police were not satirized
  5. Muffing = spoiling the opportune moment to die
  6. Had Marius not died, he would have been an inconsequential figure
  7. Marius was seen as a minor talent
  8. Friends were relieved by his death
  9. Antecedent = old friends</p>

<p>Lady Eustace

  1. Calculated allure
  2. Sir Florian is a victim
  3. Hair accesories
  4. Passage was broken down into parenthetical statements
  5. Her thin pink streak of heart indicated her coldness
  6. Sir Florian was bewitched by her
  7. Narrator was critical</p>

<p>Achilles

  1. Worldly attitude
  2. Ajax = latest to gain fame
  3. Usage of similes and metaphors
  4. Achilles’ previous accomplishments
  5. Time was the most discussed
  6. One has to constantly perform deeds to gain recognition
  7. Achiles = gilt overdusted
  8. I, II, and III
  9. Rivals overtook Achilles
  10. Vigor of bone = strength</p>

<p>Grief

  1. Silent was the answer to the first question
  2. In was the word omitted
  3. People were not fully experiencing grief</p>

<p>Is it just me or were all these passages really negative and depressing? Like taking the test wasn’t sad enough they just had to add despair, grief, loneliness, getting old and forgotten, scary evil seducing women… Idk put a damper on my mood.</p>

<p>Rain- alms was Achilles past accomplishments. I’m fairly confident of thst</p>

<p>Yeah, and my last essay was about a guy committing suicide. lol Very uplifting mood today.</p>

<p>I didn’t mind. I just loathed the frog poem.</p>

<p>@NRNitz1 OK thanks</p>

<p>Wow I screwed up on the Lady Eustace one. I said he was charmed. Damn. I thought when describing her perfect attributes and her lack of natural anger as her being kind. Well there goes my good score.</p>

<p>Dreamer- idk I got a good chuckle out of the Marius passage. Nice satire. The Ulysses was kind if inspiring; don’t clearly remember the others but several did have gloomy messages</p>

<p>@Shaq395 No I totally get what you mean. He starts out complimenting her beauty and being all nice and then all of a sudden there’s this shift and he ends up hating her it was really bizarre. </p>

<p>Hopefully the curve is generous. I thought it was much harder than last year’s AP Lang exam.</p>

<p>bruceparklee I think that was Time, because time just pushes onward and pushes people down or something. there was a lot of personification</p>

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Found the Lady Eustace passage.</p>

<p>If i got at least two or three right on the Frog one, I will be happy. I disliked that one. It was so random.</p>

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<p>Brucesoarklee- I said Achilles rivals were ready to overcome his accomplishments like a tide. But there have been discrepancies so I’m not entirely confident in that answer but i thought it made sense. Maybe it’s too simplistic…</p>

<p>Can someone tell me why the Ulysses passage is simile/metaphor instead of syllogism?</p>

<p>Garfield- he just used a ton if similes and metaphors to communicate his lesson to Achilles. Can’t cite specific examples but there were lots. I just looked up syllogism '(I didn’t know what it meant wheni was taking the test) and it says deductive reasoning, which doesnt ring any bells to me. But I could be wrong</p>

<p>^Because Ulysses was using similes and metaphors in the beginning of his speech to Achilles (I wish I could remember an example). I didn’t see any examples of logical arguments (the premises and stuff that make up a syllogism).</p>

<p>Lady eustace’s temper was sweet mannered and benign? Did anyone else get that?</p>

<p>That’s what I said picordy. But I apparently effed up that passage so…</p>

<p>Well, his argument was like “People only admire the present object, therefore you should continue doing good deeds”</p>

<p>The lady is DEFINITELY not benign…</p>

<p>Sweet mannered and benign doesn’t necessarily mean caring and kind. It can just mean neutral and quiet, or just reserved so why not</p>