<p>I’m so sad that now I understand the poem for Question 1 :(. I hope I at least get a 5 for that one. But I’m sure I got 6 and 7 for the other two. I used Pride and Prejudice for the third essay, which is what I was hoping for. YAY :D</p>
<p>I didn’t catch the irony in the first passage. I basically just wrote how desire seems rewarding on the surface but is actually dangerous. It was really just one line in the whole poem but whatever.</p>
<p>The second essay I also did pretty terrible. I didn’t think there was much to analyze at all.</p>
<p>I too also used John from BNW for the third essay. I’m hoping for 5s on the first two essay and a 7 or 8 on the third. MC was pretty easy though (I didn’t have the grief passage everyone says was hard), so I’m expecting a mid-range 4.</p>
<p>anyone use great expectations?</p>
<p>I went with 1984 on the Free Response. The test wasn’t as bad as I was expecting it to be.</p>
<p>Dear Multiple Choice: I hated you so bad!
- HOPEFULLY at least half right
Haha, now that that’s out of the way, i will just say how i think i did without revealing too much:
Poem: Pretty good. I actually liked this one, but was a tad difficult. My strategies were syntax and alliteration combined with diction. - 6-8
Prose: Meh, I did not like it at all. I had to hurry because of time constraint and my first sentence to the essay was so off topic haha…oops.
-5-6
Open-Ended: LOVED this one soooo much. It was very close to the essay about the Country a couple years ago. I used Anna Karenina because it was a perfect
-7-8</p>
<p>Did anyone else use King Lear for the third essay?</p>
<p>edit: don’t want my scores cancelled</p>
<p>Who were the authors of the frog and grief poems?</p>
<p>Apparently we will find out our scores in late July. Bummer.</p>
<p>^ Grief was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and The Frog in the Swimming Pool was written by Debora Greger</p>
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<p>That’s exactly what I was thinking. When I did the country essay as practice, I used Of Mice and Men, and almost did the same for this one due the the prompt’s similarity. I went with Heart of Darkness instead though.</p>
<p>Overall, I feel like I did decent on the essay portion (~7’s). On the practice tests for MC I’d never missed more than 6 or 7 questions, but this MC was a bit harder for me for some reason. I’m not sure if I just wasn’t focused or if that frog poem was really as hard as I thought it was. I don’t think I did too bad on MC though. Maybe ~10 missed. I really want a 5 on this exam.</p>
<p>@johnnyzxz I started to write about Huck Finn too but realized I couldn’t remember a lot of the plot so switched to the scarlet letter. Dimmesdale’s psychological conflict is a consequence of the failure to adhere to societal rules which is further augmented by his role as a priest versus human nature and sexuality, contributing to Hawthorne’s theme of persecution and destruction of those who threaten social structure established in terms of “morality”. I wrote an essay exactly like it on the SAT and got 11/12 but I started to get off-focus and started talking about existentialism. Yikes. Hopefully they don’t REALLY read past the first page and a half…</p>
<p>I think I got the main ideas in my essays but they were NOT as organized or well-written as I have written in the past! Which happened to be last year! It drives me insane. I write really good essays in practice tests but just choke on the real thing… </p>
<p>The first essay I just said rhyme scheme delivers contrast and therefore emphasizes the personification of desire as an adversary…? and anaphora/alliteration contributed to a tone of desperation and incredulity lol. It was ALL BS and I think the readers are going to realize that. 
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<p>Two What the **** moments: the stupid frog poem and the second essay prompt. I was just like… “what exactly do you want from me?” there wasn’t much to work with. </p>
<p>My best MC passages were probably the Ulysses/Achilles one and the one about the really beautiful woman. </p>
<p>If I don’t get a 5 this time I’ll be really disappointed. I KNOW I can get it but always crack under pressure. Each essay was about 2-3 pages long and I have big handwriting. 
-sigh- whatever.</p>
<p>I also used brave new world for the 3rd prompt</p>
<p>MC wasn’t terrible. Thought the Marius passage was easy, the Grief one was difficult.
The other 3 were as expected, middling difficulty and with a few difficult questions.
Poet essay I used imagery/figurative language, anaphora, and anthropomorphism.
Prose essay; just went with the recommendations of the prompt.
And I used Invisible Man for the final essay.
I think I got a solid 4.</p>
<p>@johnnyzxz
Equally possible as everyone in this thread missing some obvious “really big irony”, is perhaps you reading too much into the poem. Unless you are referring to the irony of how the speaker hates desire, yet is now consumed by his desire to kill desire.</p>
<p>For grief, what was the speaker trying to say the man should not be? Silent? I didn’t really get it</p>
<p>The grief poem said that those who openly grieve are not true grievers as those who silently grieve. Those who silently grieve are more sincere to the death and truly understand the bereveament they are going though.</p>
<p>I interpreted the Grief passage as:
The first line states that silent grief is passionless.
The next few lines state that people who constantly weep over their losses have not fully experienced their grief and thus haven’t accepted their loss.
The last few lines recommend to silently grieve one’s losses.</p>
<p>And to #93, I put silent as the answer to one of the questions, but I’m not sure if that was the question being asked.</p>
<p>Also, my interpretation could be completely and utterly wrong (and probably is).</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure your interpretation is correct. At least I hope so.</p>
<p>Ok sweet. Did you get “silent” as an answer too? I think it was one of the first questions for the passage.</p>
<p>Also, I mentioned this earlier, but did anybody catch the allegory between Perfecto and Jesus? I totally missed out on that one and my essay is completely off because of that.</p>
<p>Yeah it’s definitely silent; however, I put halfhearted. I’m definitely wrong.
What did you put for the “what should go after “as” in line 6?”</p>
<p>I didn’t think it was recommend because the image of the crumbling statue was foreboding rather than just giving causal advice.</p>
<p>And I thought that the speaker was talking about being silent as a negative thing (passionless)</p>