<p>A lot of people I know used Frankenstein, so I’m sure you’re fine. I chose Death of a Salesman–hope I didn’t ramble too much, however I feel like my first two essays were spot on.</p>
<p>I used the Bell Jar!</p>
<p>How was the desire poem ironic?</p>
<p>If I talk about it, can I get my score invalidated? Like, please? I think I got a 2…</p>
<p>Nvm, Can’t talk about this until 48 hours later xD, just forgot i posted something similar earlier xD</p>
<p>Also @Ark; I believe that you can cancel your score for a particular test within a 2 week frame from when you took the test. You can always go that route.</p>
<p>Anyone else use Wuthering Heights for the open essay? :)</p>
<p>I didn’t feel that the desire poem was overtly ironic, except when it said that “he desired that he could kill desire.” So, there was irony IN the poem, it wasn’t an overtly ironic poem though.</p>
<p>And for the open-ended essay, I chose Invisible Man (cliche, I know, but it worked so well.)</p>
<p>Nah, I used All the King’s Men.
The poem was ironic because the persona was trying to resist desire and then succumbed to its pull: “desiring naught but to kill desire.” To kill something, you have to have desire.
As NotElitist mentioned, the poem was not overtly ironic, but it was key to the poem. Since the irony was mentioned in the last line, arguably the most important line, the irony was pivotal to mention IMO.</p>
<p>In the poetry essay I mentioned personification and a resentful tone;I didn’t mention irony at all and I believe I got at least an 8 on my essay (honestly, I don’t think they’ll think less of an essay because of an absence in the discussion of irony)</p>
<p>^Oh, I see. I mentioned that line, but did not imply it was ironic…it’s like “The only thig we have to fear is fear itself.” But I did talk about how, despite the horrible effects of desire, it taught him the virtue of repressing desire.</p>
<p>I said the last statement is seemingly paradoxical… Is that right?</p>
<p>So for the desire prompt, do you think they’ll take off points if the emotions we discussed weren’t sufficiently complex? I mean, honestly the poem was like “I hate desire it should go die, preferably in a hole”, but the prompt talked about complexity… I definitely just talked about how he dislikes desire.</p>
<p>Well at first I described how he characterizes desire, using personification, and then mentioned the alternating rhyme scheme and how the scheme might suggest a battle between desire and self. At the end of the poem (last two lines), the persona succumbed to desire and the rhyme scheme changed to “hire… desire” instead of the alternating rhyme that was prevalent in the beginning of the poem. Thus, I put that desire won the battle, as evident in the irony previously noted.
Keep in mind that any interpretation of the poem is viable, so long as it is supported with evidence from the poem.</p>
<p>MC wasn’t bad. Should get 45-50.</p>
<p>I did essay 2 first. It somehow turned from an analysis of Estrella into a rant about white people being racist and Mexican pride and how “Verimontes uses Perfecto’s tools and Estrella’s development to show that no matter how much discrimination one faces, he can use the tools in his own toolbox to make his life as perfect(o) as possibly can be.” That’ll definitely go over well with the AP people.</p>
<p>I wrote the open question next on Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day. Should score decently.</p>
<p>I wrote the poem essay last. I just talked a whole lot about personification (with an anaphora reference thrown in there) and organized it by quatrains (it was an English sonnet, so it was just 3 quatrains and a closing couplet).</p>
<p>I should definitely get at least a 3. For anything above that, I’m gonna hope that my ******** scores well with the graders (especially the Mexican pride thing).</p>
<p>I thought the last line was like an antithesis because it contrast the idea being stated in a way. “Desiring to kill desire.” wow I could use that line again one day.</p>
<p>@cortana431, yes, i talked about how the last line was paradoxical</p>
<p>I used Brave New World for the third essay, specifically referring to John. I feel that that one turned out the best; I talked not only about how his actions were influenced, but also about how it helped to contrast with “civilized” society in the novel and therefore emphasize the satire.</p>
<p>The second one should be okay. I didn’t really know what to write for it.</p>
<p>I think I did pretty well on the first one, but I’m a little paranoid right now since it seemed a bit too easy; I might have under-analyzed it. Oh well, what’s done is done.</p>
<p>MC was much easier than the practice exams I’ve taken.</p>
<p>Overall, I think I got a 3 or 4. I highly doubt I’ll get a 5, but who knows.</p>
<p>DUUUDE phantomVirgo, i did that too for the third one. I thought i would be the only one! haha</p>
<p>I just realized how childish my essays were. Grr I’m so mad!</p>
<p>Really, raca? Haha, I was the only one that did it based on the people I talked to in my class, and they were surprised at how well it fit when I explained it. Most that I talked to did Heart of Darkness or Pride and Prejudice (both of which I was thinking of).</p>