<p>Halfway through my essay on Importance of Being Earnest, it hit me to use the Lord of the Rings. The Shire would have been a perfect thing to talk about. Too late at that point though.</p>
<p>Wow, behappy. Did your teacher not teach you anything? No offense if that sounds mean. A ton of hs teachers and college professors go for a week of AP grading in the summer. Your teacher could be a grader, but would not be allowed to grade your or any of his/her student's essays.</p>
<p>YAY CHIPSET, someone else who used Earnest. Mine was pretty bad though. What was your thesis? What did you write about?
I don't know if LOTR would be considered to be "of comparable literary merit," but I don't know.</p>
<p>yeah, she never told us who would be grading our essays. :/
Anyway, thanks!</p>
<p>Despite the current commercialism surrounding the Lord of the Rings, it's historically been a renowned trilogy for literary merit. </p>
<p>My thesis was along these lines: Wilde's setting of the latter portion of the play in the country served to contrast against the mire of city life and the weaknesses of Victorian society. I had to do some serious digging for that one because it wasn't very explicit that the country setting was significant.</p>
<p>Exactly my problem. My argument just totally fell apart, but I attempted to argue that Algernon and Jack used the country to become a different person and escape the superficiality of the British upper class so prevalent in the city, but are unable to....</p>
<p>Meh.</p>
<p>I think that if the collegeboard had wanted everyone to take it as a countrySIDE setting, they would have said that or the word rural. </p>
<p>Anyways, there is basically no point in arguing over that. We either get really lucky or we don't. For the hawk poem, I said that the poems modern elements (The inversion of synactic structure, the juxtaposition of the tradional Christan dove with a dark evening hawk and apocalyptic imagery with the world grinding on its axis) were augmented by Warrens use of language to create vivid imagery and sharp contrasts.</p>
<p>However, that is not what i found when i googled it...</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>About how long were other people's essays?
My first one was 3.5 pages
My second one was 4
My third one was 3.5 pages
Yet I feel like everything I wrote was total garbage...</p>
<p>Well, way longer than mine... I wrote 2.5 pages, 2 pages, and 3 pages, respectively.</p>
<p>I write 7's pretty consistently, and have trouble breaking the 8 barrier (have done it on rare occasion), but all my essays that I usually write are about that length...</p>
<p>Wilde: 5 pages
Evening Hawk: 3 pages
Open Essay: 3 pages </p>
<p>I felt everything I wrote was garbage too... with the exception of my essay on Wilde's play.</p>
<p>Yeah Wilde was my strongest essay by far as well.</p>
<p>wilde was my weakest..</p>
<p>now im second guessing that country thing</p>
<p>but good thing
i did a book that happened to be rural lol</p>
<p>yay</p>
<p>How did organize your essay? I wrote about wealth, status, power and mentioned Wilde's signature wit by paralleling the attitudes of the two women to whatever the male character was saying.</p>
<p>I had no idea what to do with the poem... it was the last one I did and I just scrambled. :</p>
<p>I said that Wilde used sentence structure and tone in order to convey the trivial and gossipy nature of English society. Like how the sentences were so short and how the characters constantly asked questions about unimportant things. I only had two body paragraphs but they were really really long. Like a page each (sort of bad). But yeah all of my conclusions sucked big time. I sort of had to sacrifice them in order to write decent introductions for the next essay.</p>
<p>Wow I'm either very concise or my essays were not in depth at all...
Evening Hawk : 1.7 pages
Wilde : 1.5 pages
Open question : 1.75 pages</p>
<p>4 on this test or bust. LoL good luck to me</p>
<p>2 pages for all the essays. Goddamn I know one guy who wrote FOUR PAGES FOR EACH PROMPT. A Yale acceptee nonetheless.</p>
<p>I liked the Wilde passage- the irony was nice....but I'm not sure how clearly I conveyed my thoughts.... I'll say 7 or 8</p>
<p>Got a little carried away at times with the poem, but overall that one worked out fairly well.... I'll say 7-9</p>
<p>Used Song of Solomon for the free response.... should've used more literary technique garbage, but it was nicely developed and certainly answered the question..... I'll say 7-9</p>
<p>MC weren't too bad.... left about five-seven blank, felt pretty confident on the rest.... although I'm sure I may have missed a few. Probably about 39-48</p>
<p>Would really like a 5 for pride's sake, but even if I get a 4 that's okay.... UVA accepts a 4 on the Lit, unfortunately I have to get a 5 on the Lang, which I am taking on the 18th or whenever</p>
<p>Really do not know which to expect</p>
<p>I would KILL for a 5, since a 5 on the AP Literature test would waive my Reading and Composition Requirement at Berkeley, so I would be free of English courses! </p>
<p>Too optimistic, am I...</p>
<p>my essays were 3 (Penn Warren), 2 (Wilde) and 2.5 on the open ended. I think I wrote the best on #2 but they were all at least 6 worthy.</p>