<p>Yeah, and does anybody want to offer tips on syntax? When I actually spot loose/periodic, simple/compound/complex, etc. sentences, how do I discuss them? What is the effect each is <em>supposed</em> to produce?</p>
<p>BUMP!!!! how does a poem's diction and tone affect its meaning??</p>
<p>fire 2006...that's a pretty broad question lol</p>
<p>? what exactly are you asking</p>
<p>take a look at Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "Sestina" (it's a sestina)</p>
<p>September rain falls on the house.
In the failing light, the old grandmother
sits in the kitchen with the child
beside the Little Marvel Stove,
reading the jokes from the almanac,
laughing and talking to hide her tears.</p>
<p>She thinks that her equinoctial tears
and the rain that beats on the roof of the house
were both foretold by the almanac,
but only known to a grandmother.
The iron kettle sings on the stove.
She cuts some bread and says to the child,</p>
<p>It's time for tea now; but the child
is watching the teakettle's small hard tears
dance like mad on the hot black stove,
the way the rain must dance on the house.
Tidying up, the old grandmother
hangs up the clever almanac</p>
<p>on its string. Birdlike, the almanac
hovers half open above the child,
hovers above the old grandmother
and her teacup full of dark brown tears.
She shivers and says she thinks the house
feels chilly, and puts more wood in the stove.</p>
<p>It was to be, says the Marvel Stove.
I know what I know, says the almanac.
With crayons the child draws a rigid house
and a winding pathway. Then the child
puts in a man with buttons like tears
and shows it proudly to the grandmother.</p>
<p>But secretly, while the grandmother
busies herself about the stove,
the little moons fall down like tears
from between the pages of the almanac
into the flower bed the child
has carefully placed in the front of the house.</p>
<p>Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove
and the child draws another inscrutable house.</p>
<p>words like </p>
<p>"time," "tears," "inscrutable," "hide," "old," "shivers," "chilly," "september," "rain," "failing," "secretly," all give us clues into the mood and tone of the poem--sad, mournful, sympathetic to the grandmother...jarring juxtaposed with emotionless "almanac" and "equinoctial"--but her tears are equinoctial because--not only are they literally taking place in September but also because they are paradoxical--both real and hidden--like an equinox...equally night and day (note the balance of "laughing" and "tears")...</p>
<p>that's a general example</p>
<p>btw ^^^^^thats deep..good job</p>
<p>im breaking down and am going to study....i think i will just review 2 boosk though. Crime and Punishment and The Great Gatsby seem to cover almost all questions. </p>
<p>Is it okay to draw from multiple novels in question 3?</p>
<p>Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo</p>
<p>This seat has most definitely taken a back seat to other tests. We haven't been preparing until this week, when my teacher is trying to squeeze in practice test after practice tets. No one is doing them because she'll assign an entire test (with essays) to do in one night, knowing full well that everyone has 9485 other AP tests to prep for.</p>
<p>As for MC, my teacher doesn't even get some of the questions right when we go over them, and she's one of the most intelligent teachers I've had. So I say screw it.</p>
<p>Hopefully I'll get lucky with my essays and pull it out.</p>
<p>Doubt it, though.</p>
<p>what figure of speech/poetic device is "darkness flooded the room"</p>
<p>EncomiumII: but how do those words affect/contribute to the poem's meaning...</p>
<p>Bump!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I'm screwed on this test... lol</p>
<p>According to my teacher (who knows her stuff), you only need to get 55% of the MC's to be on track for a 4 or 5. I think your essays have to be good but not necessarily fantastic for this to work.</p>