Dec 2009 LITERATURE THREAD

<p>Okay for the heartfree one, the author’s voice represented a “worldly society” or something? Anyone put that? And for the last question for that passage I put something like “The author and the speaker are one, supporting the values of society.” But I really wasn’t sure, I felt like the author was supporting what he thought were the values of his society by criticizing heartfree for being so eccentric and generous.</p>

<p>And I agree with the birds dividing time with songs.</p>

<p>Then there was a question about “Is this agony in vain?” or something like that, and my answer was “no, because bulkington has achieved immortality.” Sounds stupid now that I say it but does anyone agree?</p>

<p>And what about the quadrilles in the podsnap passage? I was between lifeless and expensive, changed my answer to lifeless at the last minute.</p>

<p>"Sixty Watts: atmosphere of night club, grief of someone
Scene: listener enjoying memorable performance
Birds: mark with periods of song
ship helms: exhalation… tempetuous
lithograph: something about unrealistic sentiments?
speaker vs author: author uses speaker to embody a satirized society or something</p>

<p>I forgot the podsnaps ones, but I remember putting ironic hyperbole. "</p>

<p>I had everything you had.</p>

<p>And I remember, there was a tricky one… right:
In the one about Age (with the body as a ‘house of bones’), by “clucking” is she approving of summer mischief? Or something else?</p>

<p>I left like 5 blank and probably 10+ wrong. ■■■.</p>

<p>minimeigh, i put something different for the bulkington piece. i remember deciding between your answer and one about how he’s able to transcend something. sorry i have a terrible memory. lol</p>

<p>For the Bulkington piece, I narrowed it down to “no, because has achieved immortality” and “maybe, but he has secured the freedom of his soul,” or whatever the answers were. I believe I chose the former.</p>

<p>At the end of the Bulkington passage, it said something along the lines of “There is your apotheosis!”</p>

<p>a⋅poth⋅e⋅o⋅sis  [uh-poth-ee-oh-sis, ap-uh-thee-uh-sis] Show IPA
–noun, plural -ses  [-seez, -seez] Show IPA .

  1. the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.</p>

<p>The answer is immortality.</p>

<p>Did you guys put that the passage at one point referred to both Bulkington and his ship?</p>

<p>And also, for the first question, what did the speaker’s father think about “talent and love”? I was waffling between choices A and D…I think I put D.</p>

<p>For the lithograph bit, I used the literal definition (paintings of some sort) as my answer…how was it about sentimentalism?</p>

<p>Minimeigh, for the Heartfree question I put that the author constructed a narrator that represented society in order to criticize society.</p>

<p>Quadrille: socially inappropriate (I could have interpreted this completely wrong)
Clucking: approving
Bulkington and question: immortality
talent and love: something about it not being practical to a farm</p>

<p>I think it was sentimentalism because it talked about “doll-faced heaven” and how it was torn down.</p>

<p>"At the end of the Bulkington passage, it said something along the lines of “There is your apotheosis!”'</p>

<p>YES, I’m so happy I got the Bulkington immortality question right. </p>

<p>And I thought the Heartfree speaker represented worldly society because he criticized all the well intentions of the banker and emphasized monetary gain above everything else.</p>

<p>can I assume a 700+ if I got a 770 on CR?</p>

<p>I don’t know… I got an 800 on CR but I’m still doubting my score xP</p>

<p>I think the speaker represented worldly society. There were two questions about the speaker, one about what the speaker represents and one about how the author uses the speaker.</p>

<p>Blah. For the first half of the Moby Dick passage, I interpreted Bulkington as the bay the ship will dock at. Until I got confused later and had to go back. Lol…</p>

<p>powerbomb: No. Not saying you won’t do well, but CR isn’t a good indicator of performance on the Lit subject test.</p>

<p>I heard princeton is the best for studying lit. is this true?</p>

<p>It’s Literature.
Only reason I took it was because its the one test you can do without prepping.
As long as you’ve been in literature classes, and you’ve covered the basic terminology, you should be set.</p>

<p>I don’t see how songs are involved at all in the poem for the birds question. I just read the poem again now and I still don’t see it.</p>

<p>ummm…5 blank, probably 10-15 wrong…hopefully less but there’s a chance of more. I skipped a few in the middle and recall misnumbering one passage. not sure if i ever fixed it =< . yikes!</p>

<p>question:
for the farming one: was the first answer (about the father’s view of college) because college wasn’t practical or it made ppl not do physical labor?</p>

<p>Had little practical value.</p>

<p>~ how many can you miss to get a 750+? </p>

<p>Why is the curve as harsh as the test?</p>