June 2 SAT II Literature

<p>Was one of the women's writer except questions something about being chaster than men? I put that because it said Cuckold.</p>

<p>For the women one - is anyone else getting 11 syllables in retrospect?</p>

<p>I said chaste, whatever that question was. I don't remember why. lol.</p>

<p>Darn, I said the play was likely not a satire, but "Sir Patient Fancy," the actual play to which this is the epilogue, is, in fact, a satire, or at least a comedy.</p>

<p>Some of the lines have 10 syllables, others 11. Is that still a Heroic Couplet? I'm sure it is; I don't see what other answer would have worked.</p>

<p>i said chaste too. what were the other choices to the question about satire? i might have put satire but i don't remember.</p>

<p>how many did you guys skip? i skipped about 8.</p>

<p>The question was what did male listeners NOT read the poem to mean... I thought that it was that women used to be smarter than they are now...</p>

<p>oh, i thought that was a different question. i put that too.</p>

<p>they were in identical form, rhymed and most lines were in iambic pentameter. thus, heroic couplets.</p>

<p>"For the women one - is anyone else getting 11 syllables in retrospect?"</p>

<p>I got 11 syllables during the test... lol, but, I still put heroic couplets b/c nothing else made any sense.</p>

<p>yep, the author had a couple in there. but most were still pentameter.</p>

<p>On a lighter note, I like the one about the train ride!</p>

<p>i am forgetting the other questions on the test...anybody remember some other ones?</p>

<p>the last section was a nice read. the one with the guy whose life goes down the drain and he decides to go on a cross-country hitchhiking journey after watching some geese flying by. pleasant.</p>

<p>The last one was great. The one about racial inequality was interesting. The one about nature was ***? Was that about a primordial world? The only question I know I got right was the one about geological change.</p>

<p>The one about stoicism was as tough as the Princeton Review poems. Did anyone choice stillness over dignity for one of the questions?</p>

<p>The one about women... hmmm. Was that about women mocking the misogynistic male view of women?</p>

<p>The first one was weird. Did anyone say the cap were remove to show the difference attitude between the mother and the son? Or did you say that is was to undercut the importance of it starting the sentence?</p>

<p>I just summed that passage up as "Life is boring."</p>

<p>I guessed on every question, which probably was a mistake. Got lucky on the Heroic Couplets but missed the Chaste question. This test felt harder than Princeton Review's tests.</p>

<p>Haha yeah I liked that one too! Three cheers for prose! </p>

<p>I liked the first prose passage about fog... but the ?s for it were really hard!</p>

<p>Did you say appropriateness for the penultimate question? I chose that over "birds symbolize the end of the journey."</p>

<p>for the first passage, was the uniformity of the passage disturbed by the description of the king at the beginning and end of the passage?</p>

<p>also, for the last passage, did the man decide to start a journey after seeing the geese?</p>

<p>^^^^^^^^
I don't remember... I think put down something that happened at the end of the passage.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes</p>

<p>I really thought that this test was impossible. I think I guessed on more than half of the questions.</p>