DECEMBER 2008 SAT Subject Test: Literature

<p>^michelle what was that question exactly.
For that Invention poem I remember one difficult question, I said that the muse refers to Invention or something along those lines.</p>

<p>what is he referring to with that line? unrequited love or impasse or some other choices</p>

<p>I put creative impasse because the other four choices didn't really make sense (in my opinion).</p>

<p>It means the narrator has alot to say to his lover (great with child adds a procreative tone?). THe poem in general means that he is having trouble writing a poem to his love and tries to look at other peoples work for ideas but in the end it was futile. His muse in the last line tells him he should write from his heart instead of using cliches.</p>

<p>Yeah the poem is easy to comprehend holistically, but what did you put for that question?</p>

<p>Creative Impasse and Invention.</p>

<p>It's funny because I had the most problems with the prose passages.</p>

<p>I put unrequited love because of the phrase "hopeless throes" but looking back on it I think it's wrong. Kind of like the rest of my answers...
The Flannery passage was strange.</p>

<p>I got a 5 on the Lang AP and English is my best/favorite subject but this SAT subject test kills me.</p>

<p>For the Flannery passage, who was the speaker?? I left that blank because I had no idea, I didn't see an indication when I read it. Also, what was the tone of the last paragraph?</p>

<p>Not related to the test itself, but advice please?
I took this in October and got a 660. Like I said before, everywhere else I'm strong in English, and I got a 36 on ACT reading and 35 on ACT English. If I screw this test again, would it look bad? Basically, should I cancel this and let the colleges just assume that 660 was a fluke?</p>

<p>What was the Flannery passage?</p>

<p>The one with Connor, houses, peacocks and Faulkner</p>

<p>Ok, to revive discussion, the passage about the senator's journey was a comical critique or something correct?</p>

<p>That's what I put down. Also what best summarizes the main idea of the passage? I had problems getting the idea down to a concrete form, all I had was a vague understanding.</p>

<p>do you remember the options at all?</p>

<p>It was like "peacock", "the history", ""levelling the nation w/ bare hands" etc</p>

<p>for the senator piece, i put it was a comical yet critical vignette</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the question on the second paragraph of the poem of the carnations The</a> Poems of Our Climate — Polymania on the except question did it employ an epic simile?..... Becuase I put that it did not,it seemed more of a metaphor to me...Also on the last text about honeymoon on the except question I put Domestic Detail was not employed...? And was the narrator of that poem cold and strict or sympathetic and intelligent?</p>

<p>I thought this Lit test was quite easy, lol, I didn't omit anything... and didn't really guess.</p>

<p>^ That's how I felt too, but at least 2 of my answers haven't agreed with some on this post LOL.</p>

<p>^Lol, which ones?</p>