June 2006 - English Literature

<p>spotlessmind..lol...that's funny about the old woman wanting to rape the guy..i liked the passage about Kid Jones and the one that Zora Neale Hurston wrote..i hated the galeata passage,though..I'm just glad that the test was easier than I thought it was going to be, because they could've very well have added poems that have "thee", "thy", and "thou" in them, and that would've made me lose time.</p>

<p>Which poem had a "balanced meter scheme"?</p>

<p>Actually, if it was an EXCEPT question, then I could have possibly just glanced at the answer choices, saw sonnet form, and mentally checked it. I may not have put it as an answer, I guess, because I remember that the poem DID have 14 lines, but NOT Greek mythology.</p>

<p>yea that makes sense!.. the love one we are referring to.. it was like the first question.. lines 7-11 display.. then I II and III.. for sure it was I and II.. and then i was deciding between III.. but it did in fact change the iambic metres between penta and i think six or something... does anyone have one big list so i can see how many i have wrong?! haha</p>

<p>Oh, did that Q have as an answer choice "couplets are same lengths" or was that for a different Q?</p>

<p>that was the same section.. because the poem did have couplets.. im not sure it might have been the I or II i cannot recall...i can picture it on the page but not the exact choice you know? not that that helps or anything</p>

<p>It's okay, I know the test is kinda of vague right now in all of our minds. Thanks for all your help, spotless mind. It's kinda weird because I usually remember all my answers and Qs on every test. But Literature is really blurry to me for some reason. Does anyone remember anything else? </p>

<p>Spotlessmind, did you get "enchanted" or "laid her down" for the Galatea/sculpture poem? The Q was like which of the following verbs do NOT pertain to the noun Galatea.</p>

<p>it was the one that came first.. it was like The statue, which some OTHER NOUN .. then a verb attached to that, .... so there was a comma splice separating it.. whichever that was</p>

<p>i think i put enchanted</p>

<p>i think i might have put "laid her down" ....i need to know what the other choices were cus i have a horrible memory</p>

<p>um does anyone know how the first passage corresponded to the second passage of the train one? I think i put something like "the second continues with the structure of the first" or something like that..</p>

<p>yep thats exactly what i put!.. just continuing more metaphors</p>

<p>I also put "laid her down" although doesn't "enchanted" make sense too? Gah....I put what you put, bepiozo.</p>

<p>you can't really study for english lit right?</p>

<p>its all analysis...just wondering</p>

<p>Yeah, basically, I mean you got to know some basic literary terms but those kinds of Qs represent like 1-3 out of 60 Qs.</p>

<p>gahh.....does anyone remember exact wording for the question for which verb does not pertain for the galatea poem....im trying to remember what i put down</p>

<p>Shiva, that was more or less the exact wording. I was really caught between "enchanted" and "laid her down", but now I'm leaning towards the former even though I picked the latter. =[</p>

<p>yeah wendy, I didnt study AT ALL for this lit test...i was too busy studying for bio and math. i was expecting to fail miserably, but it was a lot better than i thought....</p>

<p>Yeah, me too, I didn't study at all (other than reviewing the definitions of sonnets, odes, and etc.), because one can't really study for this test, other than reading loads of poetry.</p>

<p>But gosh...it's a good than I watched that one Hercules episode where some old sculptor guy made one of the godesses bring his statue to life so he could date her and stuff...or else i would have like no idea what the poem was about xD yay disney~</p>

<p>not sure if anyone's asked this yet but..</p>

<p>on the 'effect of the music on Kid Jones' question, was the answer "like an element sweeping through him" or something to that effect? i was totally torn between that answer and another one.</p>