<p>dfo you remember for that same poem what action did not apply to her?</p>
<p>Yep, I put that for the rain turned into the signs of doom. I had another answer for it, but I went back and read the question really carefully and changed it to that. I'm not sure what key word of the question convinced me to change it,though...</p>
<p>about the angry except question, did that have drunkeness as an answer?</p>
<p>Argh, I think I screwed up the Slipshod one. I put irony as the one least characteristic of Slipshod, and I didn't include Joseph among those who would find her funny (I totally missed out on her abuse of the English language, even though I remember thinking it was odd how some of those words didn't seem to fit).</p>
<p>I'm damn worried about this test. The questions seem so much more objective than they were on the practice tests, and I think I screwed up some of those that could be objectively answered (like the iambic pentameter, etc. question...what was the answer for that?). I hope I can at least get into the 90th percentile for the test.</p>
<p>ah yes, if it was the one about drunkeness, then it wasn't an except question.</p>
<p>to JMO i put "laid down"</p>
<p>drunkness was an answer, but it said in the passage...that he was drunk....and johleemk...jury is still out on whether he found her funny.</p>
<p>i'm a little confused.</p>
<p>so for the VERY first question following the galatea poem, was the answer amorous desire? i think the question was asking which best described the artist in the first stanza.</p>
<p>i either put laid down or the one right after it...and the drunkeness one was an except or was a least characterized him...because the other answers applied.</p>
<p>it asked which best described him? Now I am honestly mixing up every question.</p>
<p>i didn't think the drunkeness one was an except or least characterized one.</p>
<p>btw what were all the answers that did fit?</p>
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Hence why I didn't put presumptive..</p>
<p>he was drunk. he did have amorous desire. and im trying to remember the other choices</p>
<p>so than the answer is self-deception?</p>
<p>JM, the question asked what 'best' characterized him, it was amorous desire.</p>
<p>Fair enough. I guess I misread it. And I put self-deception.</p>
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What kind of twisted logic are you using? If it says that the moral of the story is beauty is short-lived.. this indicates that young people should make the most of it while it is there, not that someone should console someone else..</p>
<p>As for Joseph, the bit preceding the extract would have been about Joseph mentioning her bad English, and then about half way down he changed tack and started praising her English, which happened to be awful. Hence the irony, hence the humour, and hence why Joseph was taking the ****.</p>
<p>As for irony, the woman herself cannot be ironic, but she can be lu****l, aggressive, presumptive etc. etc., as indeed she was. You say she wasn't presumptive - how not? What was ironic was what she said; this does not mean that irony was characteristic of her.</p>
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What was the question??</p>
<p>To Ace is Black: calm down.</p>
<p>If the moral of the story is that life is short-lived but that there is beauty in it, nevertheless...then the answer: consoling someone whos friend had an untimely death is not DEFINETLY incorrect, but telling someone to make the best of life is definetly plausible. </p>
<p>If you say irony is the correct choice, then where was she being self-deceptive...another choice? And by your explination, if someone says ironic things, then is she not, herself, exhibiting irony?</p>
<p>I'M CALM I'M CALM!!!</p>
<p>The poem is not quite saying that beauty is short-lived. It's saying that living a long life is not any more desirable than experiencing a short and more valued life. And what about the example that the lily lived a brief life but is still more precious than the oak?</p>