<p>Many of my friends put "few" as the answer. One of my friends' reasonings was that an owl actually creates a "hoo", and that "hoot" is a misconception. Another one of my friends just said that cue in "cue-owl" rhymes with few haha. Either way, it was a stupid question, and when I got to it I was extremely confused and a little angry that they would put something like that on a test that is supposed to test our analysis skills.</p>
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The question about the owl was WHAT THE PERSON SAYS to refer to an OWL and rhymes with what they call an OWL by.
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<p>Oops. Misread -- stupid time pressure.</p>
<p>Do universities (good universities, like say UC-berkeley) actually require you to have all 5's on your APs?? For this year's APs, I think I'm gonna get 3 5's and 2 4's.........Is this acceptable?</p>
<p>Unless I misread the poem, the cue-owl was called by the name of the sound it made. Cue. Which would rhyme with few.</p>
<p>Now I'm really confused and can't remember what the question actually asked.</p>
<p>Also, cue may rhyme with few now, but it didn't in the 16th century (when the poem was written). Back then, "cue" rhymed with French "tue" while "few" rhymed with "hey you" (approximately, minus the modern English semivowels). Only in the high back vowel mergers of the 17th century did "cue" start to rhyme with "few". Of course, I'm not sure if they expected us to know that.</p>
<p>All I have to say is the third question made me smile... Pride and Prejudice :) Elizabeth and Jane were my bffs yesterday...</p>
<p>But then I had under 20 minutes to crank out the poetry essay and while it was decent, it was the biggest heap of bs I have ever writte, so that's just... magical?</p>
<p>for me, the fourth MC passage and the second FRQ were just ridiculous.</p>
<p>can someone remind me about the last MC section? im thinking back and I only recall 4; what's the other one?</p>
<p>the abandoned store.</p>
<p>For the Dublin one, with the boy and his family moving.</p>
<p>There was one with roman numerals.</p>
<p>I) Time
II) Imagery
III) Perspective.</p>
<p>Which did you guys put? It seems like time did change, but the first stanza was in the past tense and the second was in present tense. Which means, the speaker is narrating from the future. So for the speaker time didn't change. At least that's how I remember it.</p>
<p>Imagery definitely changes.</p>
<p>And while the second stanza was a little more dark, I don't know if I can say the perspective changed, since it's the same speaker at the same time. His perspective didn't change, he just told another part of the story.</p>
<p>I couldn't find a II and III answer choice so I put E) I, II and III.</p>
<p>What did you guys put?</p>
<p>same. 10 char</p>
<p>I put all three. There's definitley a passage of time, imagery changes of course, and perspective changes on the last 3 lines when the crosses begin to be discussed. Well that's at least what I think. Anyway this test was very difficult for me. My teacher for AP Lit is retiring this year. Believe me, this man is SMART. He probably is the smartest man, I've ever met. He teaches college at night as well. It's just he didn't seem to... care. We didn't do any practice tests until the week before the test, but we did them as a class. Not much help when people shout out two wrong answers before I can even think. Also, the rest of the year all we did was read like 8 books and like 15 short stories. Not very much :/. And all we did with the books was analyze them in class, but the theories and ideas he comes up with from these books are ridiculous. Most of the class is us just staring at him with blank expressions on our faces. Rarely can we answer his questions because his interpretations are so abstract and he expects to understand them. For example he'll say if A is true then B is true. And if B is true and C is true then A=C and also C=D so A=D. And if D is a car going down the street then A must represent mechanization. Meanwhile, we just are staring in awe because none of us would ever make those connections. Uggh.
That was just a vent. Hah.</p>
<p>for 3rd essay, I used The Things They Carried and talked about O'Brien vs Maryann...although maryann was a minor character she represented weakness in that she let the jungle consume her therefore she highlighted tim's strength's in keeping level-headed ?</p>
<p>Glueeater- For the Dublin passage question, the answer was I and II (there was without a doubt passage of time, not perspective), your reasoning for no change in time is bizarre, the passage of time is relative to the storyline, not the narrator (how could passage of time be possible for the narrator?).
Remember, do not overthink reading questions on standardized tests, generally they are superficial and do not require so much abstract logic.</p>
<p>Oh, I thought perspective changed because it went from a first person deal to a more 3rd person deal where the life of the child was discussed (versus I said "Blah blah blah". The only problem for me with that one was the fact that the poem began in 3rd person, flirted with 1st person, and then c hanged back to 3rd person at the end. Oh, well.</p>
<p>Are you talking about subjectivity/objectivity? (did anyone get that?)</p>
<p>Did anybody else use the Iliad for the open-ended? It's technically not a book nor a play, but I'm pretty sure it's okay...? I did Hector and Achilles. I'm pretty sure it was a good essay (Hector = the heroic code, vs. Achilles = a new\different code). The poem essay, however, was probably pretty crappy. I didn't quite understand the 2nd poem---my take on it was possibly incorrect. I said some interesting stuff about the 1st one though. Prose essay prompt was not fun, but I'm pretty sure the essay was strong enough to get a 7 or higher. I mean, I saw the tone and I got the devices (how she used speech to contrast Arun and the mom, the main character's negative perspective), so I'm guessing its OK.</p>
<p>MC was probably good by and large. Loved the Raphael poem. I kinda wanted to know where it was from. The prose about the bad artist was not fun. Betting I got a 5, though.</p>
<p>@molldoll825
omg i used invisble man too!
i used 3 ppl as foils, lucius brockway, the president of the college, and brother jack
how much would i be penalized for using 3, forgetting the name of the president of the college, and using more than minor characters?</p>
<p>for the one about the owl and what sound it made i put scowl</p>
<p>and one of the early questions' answer was "resolute and unscathed" but i forgot what it asks</p>
<p>Flare12345neo:
Haha. I used Invisible Man in almost the same way. I used two foils though instead of three, Dr. Bledsoe and Brother Jack, except I forgot Brother Jack's name and simply referred to him as "the leader of the brotherhood" in my essay... I hope they don't mind too much.</p>
<p>Oh hm. That might be confusing for the grader then... I often referred to the narrator as "Jack"...</p>