<p>I thought the MC was too easy... way below what I was expecting.
1st essay... I thought I did really well on
2nd essay... Not really enough to write on for me.. although I think it was decent it will probably be my lowest score
3rd... I got lucky.. we just read Brave New World and it fit perfectly thank God!</p>
<p>did anyone see that CB was denied permission to post the second essay's passage on the site? lol</p>
<p>That actually happens a lot due to copyright issues. Not like you couldn't find it anywhere else online, seriously.</p>
<p>Did anyone use The Things they Carried for the third prompt? i thought it fit very well, but now I'm feeling a bit iffy about it..............</p>
<p>I'm now curious, am I the only one who used Grendel for the open-ended essay? I thought the fact that Grendel wanted to fit into society, but that he was still willing to eat the people of the society he wanted to fit into worked perfectly for the internal conflict versus conformity. Maybe I was totally off base with my essays, but I'm another student who won't get English credit next year even if I get a 5.</p>
<p>I totally missed the color imagery.</p>
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<p>He's conforming to the "phony" world of adulthood.</p>
<p>I used Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar for the third prompt. So far I think I'm the only one....but it fit well. I got lucky, the thesis for my research paper was that Esther conforms in the end. I wanted to start singing when I read that prompt! </p>
<p>jessetfan, I get what you are saying about Grendel, it should be fine.</p>
<p>So my English teacher told us what she would have written her essays on, and now I feel pretty stupid. I thought I wrote pretty good essays, but there was so much I didn't talk about... :(</p>
<p>For Q3: "The Stranger," anyone?</p>
<p>I did Picture of Dorian Gray for the open prompt. Seemed like a pretty straightforward choice so I went with it.</p>
<p>The prose on this test wasn't too hard to understand, but the poetry was a b*tch.</p>
<p>What did you guys write for the 2nd essay about the birthday cake? I wrote about false apperances, but mainly I just commented on syntax and diction/imagery and how they supported her point because I didn't really know what it was about.</p>
<p>a bit of foreshadowing in the first paragraphy, symbolism with his glasses (rational person, who doesn't play games), syntax, diction, imagery, irony, and understatement</p>
<p>how could you bomb prompt 3? othello and scarlet letter worked fine.</p>
<p>the predominant literary device in the 2nd FR was irony. As long as you talked about the ironic elements in the piece (there were several) and kept pretty much on topic, i cant see you (anyone) getting lower than a 6.</p>
<p>crypto: i agree completely.</p>
<p>Did you guys notice the blatantly ironic title? "birthday party" obviously it was no party. It is such an absurdly incongruous title, and obviously ironic.</p>
<p>Also notice how the speaker begins the narrative entirely centered on this couple, whom he claims is <em>completely inconspicuous</em> which is ironic itself in addition to the reference to the woman's odd big pink hat. Also, that single pink candle is ridiculous, as is the shifting to second narration in addressing the reader, and the exaggerated results of the scolding--she evidently cries for about half an hour (under the brim of her big gay pink hat, of course). </p>
<p>It's completely packed in irony. I'm pretty sure I nailed this essay.</p>
<p>did anybody other than me point out that all through the story, she was wearing a "big hat," but in the end that same hat is reevaluated as her best hat?</p>
<p>i think that single change really says something powerful about her personality as it relates to her helpless situation</p>
<p>Mz, I caught that as well. I basically analyzed about every line.</p>
<p>I took the late registeration Lit exam.</p>
<p>MC: Much, much easier than I'd expected, and actually got time to go back and double check answers.</p>
<p>Essay 1: Okayish. It was only 2 1/2 pages, though. Hoping that won't count against me.</p>
<p>Essay 2: Quite easy, lots of literary devices to go on and ramble about. </p>
<p>Essay 3: LOVED the prompt. rehased an essay I wrote for class on The Handmaid's Tale. :P</p>
<p>the late registration doesn't take the same test...RIGHT?</p>