<p>Since the other choices were like generous, angry, quick tempered, things like that</p>
<p>Okay, but “sweet manned”=kind…</p>
<p>And she’s definitely not neutral or quiet…she can ravage you just by speaking!</p>
<p>Definitely not benign because he explicitly said the chick was dangerous.</p>
<p>But it referenced to a few specific lines that stated she faked anger. It was like what can you infer from this</p>
<p>Picordy- definitely not. She was a manipulative cruel person. Considering Sir whatever his name was is a “victim” suggests she is not benign but malevolent</p>
<p>Dod anyone else think the free response were ridiculously easy?</p>
<p>@NRNitz1 yes except for the second one. which was stupid. All I wrote about was how her teachers didn’t really treat her like she was a multi-dimensional human and didn’t answer her questions and perfecto flores was a foil to them which helped develop the girl’s hunger for knowledge and learning.</p>
<p>I actually got the perfecto = Jesus reference lol. Hallelujah.</p>
<p>I LOVED the 2nd FRQ, what’re talking about?! haha. symbol was like the #1 thing i talked about and how it represented a shift from ignorance and failure for teachers to help her → Perfecto opens up the box and boo yah she’s all inquisitive now (definitely didn’t say it like that on the test LOL)</p>
<p>i also talked about tone</p>
<p>Projected essay scores - 7, 2, and 6
I hated the second one. I spent too much time writing 4 pages for the first one. The second one was mediocre. The people reading it will be reduced to tears of laughter.</p>
<p>I thought the second was stupid too. It was simplistic and the symbols were kind of clich</p>
<p>^ Yours seemed pretty insightful. Mine was juvenile garbage.
I am so mad! I just realized on the first one I mistakenly wrote dissonance instead of cacophony! I’ll probably get a couple points knocked off for that.</p>
<p>@bruceparklee i remember considering that one but choosing another one… I hate when two answers are both right but you have to pick the one that’s “most” right. </p>
<p>my first essay was really good because I had the most time… everything else was just a feverish rush, which really hurt them. Also, I crossed out a LOT and they SAY you won’t get graded on it but it’s just so sloppy visually I can’t see how that can help the grader’s impression. should i be worried?</p>
<p>NRNitz1 whoa we wrote about EXACTLY the same things… just goes to show how the prompt was really one-dimensional and didn’t allow for a lot of interpretation.</p>
<p>The toolbox itself was symbolic too; and also how Estrella related letters of the alphabet to tools even before perfecto taught her everything.
There was also a superstitious tone</p>
<p>the first poem i actually talked about how the speaker almost was trapped by desire both with the imagery and how he used passive voice – how he was reluctant to give up his hold on it.</p>
<p>I didn’t talk about tone because I didn’t feel there really was a tone significant enough to mention haha. The passage was written frankly in my opinion. I spent so much time on the symbols I didn’t have time to bs something about tone, or lack thereof</p>
<p>I tended to write 3 pages or more during class, but on the test I only put 2 pages for each essay. That will certainly hurt me, as the longer the essay, the more points tend to be awarded. I must have just felt the pressure from not getting enough sleep after a huge game last night that lasted till 11am 
. Multiple choice did not challenge me that much and it appears that most here agree. I would not talk about the test’s specifics yet though friends; no one wants to have to have a cancellation.</p>
<p>Echoy- I said he was trapped also but by the personification (snare, thou madest me, and thou sought I aspire to vanity or something) and then I said the strict rhyme scheme and sonnet form mirrored the trapped inescable feeling the speaker had toward desire. Then the paradox at the end: I desire naught but to desire no more- can never escape desire</p>
<p>I said the straightforward, unvaried tone was meant to parallel Estrella’s “dignified maturity”. Though initially portrayed as temperamental (being angry at the tools), she is, for the most part, composed.</p>
<p>I’m really upset with my performance today… My mom was telling me how English is my forte and how I should knock this one out of the park… I was really confident but idk things were really off and my essays were WAY too short. I feel really dejected… hopefully multiple choice can pull me through to a 4 or 5 but if all these answers we’re discussing are right it doesn’t look so good.</p>