<p>anyone want to compile an overall list of pieces we had to read and potential answers like before?</p>
<p>I have 3 of the Texts:
The</a> Poems of Our Climate — Polymania Bowl Poem
OTHELLO</a>, Act 4, Scene 3 on Infidelity and Women
RPO</a> -- Sir Philip Sidney : Astrophel and Stella I on Muse</p>
<p>^That Othello link is not right. and the muse one doesn't work</p>
<p>I corrected the Muse link and the Othello Link is correct the text in the test begins around line 84.</p>
<p>I thought the test went okay, a few questions I was stumped on, but I think I did fine.
For the main idea for the Flannery one, did anyone else put "Take what we can get, and let the rest rot"?</p>
<p>I put that one as well only because the rest of the answers seemed dismissive of the majority of the text.</p>
<p>I put that one too.</p>
<p>I'm mad; I had 'Invention' for the Muse question but then changed it to 'she'. And I have no idea why. I think I got it into my head that it was supposed to be a dramatic reveal sort of thing, like he's actually trying to please his muse (no, I cannot say why I thought this). That's the part that sucks about Lit tests. If you misinterpret one detail like that it can screw up how you interpret the WHOLE poem. I think I did all right on the rest though.</p>
<p>Also for the Flannery passage, what did you put for the question about why the speaker admired her so much? I was torn between how she handled discrimination and her mastery of language because they were both explicitly stated but I went with the discrimination choice because that seemed more the intent of the passage as a whole...?</p>
<p>Yes I chose the civil rights blurb because it seemed to coincide with the overall theme of the excerpt.I also believe I put she although I dont remember that particular question.</p>
<p>Ugh, I was scratching my head for a few of the questions...</p>
<p>I put "She" as the Muse... </p>
<p>And I hated the Carnations / Bowl poem, ugh.</p>
<p>Yes but the passage mentioned nothing about O'Connor talking about discrimination. In fact the writer implied that before she came to terms with O'Connor she felt discrimination because of the way O'Connor's house was treated compared to a black authors. I put the characterization and whatever it else it said answer because she praised O'Connor's portrayal of black and white women and her mastery of words or something like that.</p>
<p>One of the ones that apparently people on CC put different than I did was the one about the last line in the imperfection poem. Originally I put that it refereed to poetry then I changed it because the poem itself didn't refer to poetry and while it was implied it directly referred to imperfection which was what the word bitterness referred to so I put that.</p>
<p>The muse one was definitely invention because the point was that he should stop looking at other peoples' poems for inspiration and "invention" was the inspiration inside of him to write originally and not imitate others so that was the muse.</p>
<p>But does he not need the muse to find the inspiration inside of him to write ,afterall it was that muse that told him to write about what he knew...meaning it,the muse was the woman from which he drew the inspiration...and upon futher research the poem comes from a book about authors wife...
And I did not chose the discrimination rather I believe there one about social injustice/equality,that is the one I choose because that seemed to be the girls principal concern as well as that of O'Connor there is a line in the text that specifically says that she liked her writing because it looked beyond stringent idealized notions of people</p>
<p>Ah but the muse was specifically telling him to write from within. The woman inspired him to want to write something but he still had to choose between "Invention" and "Study". The "muse" at the end was the one specifically telling him to choose to not imitate others which was "Invention."</p>
<p>I have a question about the infidelity one
did anyone put she was "unsentimental to marital topics" or something like that for her attitude and what id "galls" and "affections" mean?
the last three questions were really hard in my opinion.
oh yea and what was the tone of the last two lines in that poem?</p>
<p>Very well,I digress that is what can lead one astray in this test,opinion and subjectivity but well on December 23 we shall see.Overall I found there to be about 5 dubious questions,where I found myself interjecting a guess with an opinion.</p>
<p>Agreed. I hate literature multiple choice because its all subjective since everyone interprets things differently and there's no such thing as "best" answer if someone else can find a reason for their answer also. </p>
<p>Galls was like sexual desire or something like that I think. And I thought the tone was admonity or whatever that word was if it was like the noun of to admonish.</p>
<p>I choose unsentimental because she was dethatched in her parallel comparison between husbands and wives adultery.Galls is tempers and affections is desires.I am sure of that because I got the answers from an annotated copy of Othello.</p>
<p>unsentimental, admonity, muse=invention, </p>
<p>I HATEDDDD the carnations thing until I finally got it, lololol, and then it was quite easy.</p>
<p>kk cool i put two out of three of those answers :)
but who else was surprised by the number of modern works?
there were three i think but in all my practice tests and my previous literature subject test i encountered at most one
it was a nice change tho because i was able to go through these more quickly than the others</p>
<p>Yea this went really fast compared to other tests. I loved the carnation ones though it took reading it two times to get it.</p>
<p>I also found it curious that there two works from 1983.Overall the texts where not that hard to digest,it is just that some of the answers that are purposely misconstrued.</p>