<p>Ugh…metaphysical poetry hahaha</p>
<p>If anyone knows what the title or who the author was of one of the MC passages, it’d be cool if you could PM me or something. I want to look them up but I don’t know any of them, or remember enough for google searches to come up with anything.</p>
<p>Damn, I hate Lit MC’s, I always end up debating between two answers, and afterwards, I find out I chose the wrong one and then it’s just like GAHHHHH!</p>
<p>Does anyone remember that question where it had the choices “outraged” and “importunate”? I can’t remember what it was asking… I think it had to do with the passage where the narrator was wandering the streets at night and talking about the people in the town?</p>
<p>The narrator wasn’t outraged, I don’t think. I either said callous and something else, or ironically amused and something else.</p>
<p>^ I didn’t think it was outraged either, but then none of the other choices really made sense and I didn’t really know what “importunate” meant… I’m pretty sure “callous” was an answer choice to a different question, though.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how much the curve fluctuates from year to year? For example +/- 10 points? This year was pretty easy so I doubt a 5 will remain 100-150 (maybe 110-150?)</p>
<p>I think I got almost all of the multiple choice. Except for the questions that asked how the narrator felt, or felt about X.
The first essay was my favorite…except I didn’t get the narrator’s exact relationship with Meema until I was done, and then I couldn’t be bothered to add in something about that
The second was ok quality, I think.
The third…I tried to force Beloved onto the prompt, since I really wasn’t strong in any book that dealt with exile…</p>
<p>I’m almost positive the answer was peace, not life. Yes, the father is still alive at the end of the poem, but in context his breathing isn’t a metaphor for life – if anything, it IS life – but moreso the last few lines about the woman watching her father breathe represent finally reaching a sense of calmness after the rushed-ness of the rest of the poem. The poem wasn’t about the dad dying – it was about “the race” to get to him, and the speaker reached peace when the race had concluded and she was by his side.</p>
<p>I won’t lie… I almost put elegy as the answer to the question asking which type of poetry it was. Then I realized the dad wasn’t actually dad yet and changed it to narrative.</p>
<p>Did anyone put first person 2nd person and third person for an anwser to that sotry of the town that was boring one?</p>
<p>^ I put that! I wasn’t sure if there was 3rd person, but then there wasn’t an answer choice with “first person and second person only”…</p>
<p>yeah I put that too - it had “I” “you” and “one”</p>
<p>how much will it hurt me if i forgot the author’s name of the book i wrote about for q 3?</p>
<p>does anyone know the title of the Airplane piece? Where the narrator had to rush to see her dad? I really want to read it.</p>
<p>never mind i found it guys. i LOVED that poem. it almost made me cry 
has anyone read any of Sharon Olds’s other poems?</p>
<p>Never give up - its “The Race” </p>
<p>but i forgot the poets name, some girl</p>
<p>How was the author supposed to live on in the first passage?</p>
<p>Was it having his beloved recall his memory?</p>
<p>chirichimes- i also wrote about beloved for the 3rd essay. did you write about like the place of exile being nature or something like that?</p>
<p>The fact that everyone here can argue for “life” or “peace” as the two answers only solidifies our beliefs that there can be more than one answer for the MC. That’s why I like essays - you can argue any point, but on MCs, you HAVE to agree with the college board…</p>
<p>For the question about breaths at the end of “The Race,” did you put peace or life?</p>