<p>yea prose=easy, poem=confusing, none of the works i read this year=third question......................3......maybe 4</p>
<p>i thought evening hawk was about eternity and history and things that are unaffected by time etc. like everything in the scene just kept going. i don't know, i could've been totally full of s hit.</p>
<p>i wrote about shape imagery used to convey mood and historical/anthropological references used to convey meaning.</p>
<p>that is by far the worst prompt in the history of the test </p>
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<p>I said that the raven was an intermediary between the past and the present.</p>
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<p>I went with the Awakening too.</p>
<p>At first I thought I was screwed because I read it as country (rural), and couldn't think of anything to go with that. I saw Scarlet Letter on the list, which had two different important settings, but neither of them were the rural country area. I decided on the Awakening because the three different settings in the novel reflect the attitude of the protagonist and show how she changes under new conditions. The settings weren't in the rural area or "a" country, but I still think I answered the prompt correctly.</p>
<p>The second essay was easy enough, but I think I messed up on the Evening Hawk. My first body paragraph was about the opening stanza, and how the syntax emphasized the hawk's dominance over the region. Second paragraph was about Time as a metaphor, and how the hawk signifies a change in time. Last one was about the entrance into a new time (night), and the new changes it brought, supported by Warren's allusions and his personification of Time. I don't know if I understood the poem correctly or not; most of the stuff I pulled out of my ass.</p>
<p>Pulling stuff out of my ass for the win......god that essay open ended on frankestein which i chose was horrible......expecting a 2 ugh >_<</p>
<p>I got the poem totally wrong (if that is possible). I wrote about the hawk as an angel of death liberating the people it came in contact with from the confines of time. It uses its scythe (like the grim reaper) to take away the troubles of the present day. I wrote about how the hawk is outside of time itself, knows all, and causes shadow to pass over the valley. I saw heading towards the light as heaven, and I mentioned "rage against the dying of the light." ... yeah, it sounded good at the time. lol</p>
<p>For the third essay I used King Lear.</p>
<p>international ap's are totally different</p>
<p>Ethan Frome I thought fit the third topic. It was my best essay by far. I hated the poem, and I had trouble elaborating on the prose. I am a little bit worried about that test.</p>
<p>I used Their Eyes are Watching God for #3.</p>
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i thought evening hawk was about eternity and history and things that are unaffected by time etc. like everything in the scene just kept going. i don't know, i could've been totally full of s hit.</p>
<p>i wrote about shape imagery used to convey mood and historical/anthropological references used to convey meaning.
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<p>yeah!!! i was talking about how the wonders of nature are magnificent considering the vast proportions of our earth, and how they are unaffected by the slow movement of time throughout the ages... i wanted to use diction in a way that some of the words were mathematically-oriented, i.e. geometric and angularically (sp?), but there wasn't enough evidence in my eyes. i used diction that suggested the perpetuity of nature's phenomena, i.e. "another day," "crashless fall", "Plato" and other things that hinted to things of an archaic sense</p>
<p>prose was simple - diction, because the woman used brutally honest words as opposed to the defensive language that darlington used, point of view because they had differing points of view on the plight of woman in victorian society, and syntactical elements because the woman's statements were like short quips, illustrating her snappy demeanor and the man's eloquent and well-spoken rebuttals to the two ladies' criticisms</p>
<p>i nailed question 3; i used cry the beloved country, set in apartheid south africa. it almost felt like a history prompt, but i stuck to the literature analysis</p>
<p>i got a 5 on eng. lang last year, here's to another one... i feel particularly proud of that being a potential engineering major haha</p>
<p>For the evening hawk prompt, I avoided going for the stereotypically "deep" meaning, and instead just focused on the hawk. I divided my essay over three ideas: that the smooth flow of the poem and the poet's use of enjambment heightened the majestic feeling of the hawk; that power eminated through the hawk as a result of words like "scythe", which not only denote movement, but also the power behind the movement (which was common through descriptions of all its movements); and that the hawk was indisputably wise, deriving its wisdom from its detachment from the rest of the mortal world. </p>
<p>I avoided addressing Time and the light vs. dark contrast because 1) I didn't have time to write about it and 2) because I knew I could write much more coherently about the other things lol</p>
<p>I wrote that the hawk was the only thing good in the world descending into darkness or something. Light/dark imagery and references to flying such as the bat and the hawk. Whatever I hate english :P</p>
<p>I wrote on As I lay Dying</p>
<p>Our class read 18 books (Mythology, The Odyssey, parts of The Bible, Moby Dick, Gulliver's Travels, Oedipus, Doctor Faustus, Hamlet, Earnest, Arms and the Man, Portrait of an Artist, Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart, A Doll's House, The Awakening, Sula, The Stranger, and No Exit). Notice how none of those were on the open prompt's list of suggested books. I'd prepared Doll's House, because it seriously applies to 25 of the 30 prompts from the last 30 years (seriously, I counted). But that prompt was awful. I used The Importance of Being Earnest, because I guess I was in a Wilde mood, but it was bad because we read it in November. But most of my class used Things Fall Apart, The Awakening, or Sula. But seriously, that prompt, while ambiguous, did mean "country" as in rural setting. There were definite clues. However, my argument for Earnest sucked, so I suppose misinterpreting the prompt but writing a cogent argument will still produce better results for you who did so. Meh.</p>
<p>is anyone interested in rehashing any of the MC that they can remember? What was the one about the kids smoking cigarettes outside: were they "defiant d-something" or "self-concious something"?</p>
<p>And what was the one for that poem where it asked if the subject was the speaker's wife or mistress? I said mistress because I read the whole "Michaelangelo didn't have a wife..." things as meaning that the girl wanted to get married and he didn't--a conflict I thought would be between man and mistress, but I also see how it could be wife...I don't know, any thoughts?</p>
<p>(feel free to rehash any MC questions of your own if you'd like)</p>
<p>Ok, I'm getting nervous because my interpretation of the poem is unlike anything I've seen on this board or heard from any of my friends. I thought the poem stressed the vast amount of knowledge and wisdom availible in nature while using words to establish a reverential tone. I talked about the concrete imagery common to Penn Warren's literature (All the King's Men) and the use of similes and metaphors to raise natural objects to an almost deitstic and omniscient status.....Guess I'll get a 4 on that essay! I think I did well on the prose and the open-ended. I talked about wuthering heights and how the setting imposed a stark barrier between social classes. I didn't think the prompt required us to talk about a "country setting" because the last sentence of the prompt was simply asked us to write about a work in which setting was important to the overall meaning. ......overall...I think I made a 4 or 5.</p>
<p>I'm kind of not feeling Collegeboard letting up on that whole "country" deal. One kid in my class totally got confused, tried writing about the United States with some book, and didn't even get to the second question, she only did number 1 and number 3, heh heh. The way I see it tho, CB won't let up, because if we can succeed on those hard as hell mulitple choices and interpret THAT, we should be able to interpret what they meant by "country."</p>
<p>And did anybody else use "Waiting For Godot" for the open-ended? I thought it was a pretty creative choice =)</p>
<p>the MC on the owl-- was it toot or scowl or what?
for the cigarette question i wrote defiant.
michealangelo-- i thought it was a teacher! ah
the first short poem was someone contemplating on the past? did the kissing and shaking hands represent reconcilation? and what was with those capitalized words Love and Passion for?</p>
<p>umm in terms of the essays, i dont think i did well... maybe a 5/6 on each... but for the country question, i used a small city, oops... i really hope that is clarified for us! </p>
<p>i think i got a 3 or 4... it wasnt much diff from ap language. i came out of both tests feeling the same way</p>
<p>I said wife. I think the teens were self conscious, though I was stuck on the same 2 choices. But they spoke slowly and moved slowly but inhaled too fast or something, so it seemed like they were self conscious to me.</p>
<p>oh, I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to talk about the multiple choice section ever. I know its like ridiculous but I'd hate for someone to get in trouble.</p>