June 2008 Literature

[Giantredlobster]

<p>Wait they had titles?</p>

<p>I always remember seeing titles in practice tests, but I didn’t see any on the actual test</p>

[AKittka]

<p>about the moon question.. didn’t it say “waxing and waning” which refers to the moon being like full and then not so much. that’s why i put alternatively fading and increasing, but i don’t think that was the best choice.</p>

[eating_food]

<p>^ i know, when i put it, I didn’t think it would be the BEST choice, but I really didn’t have the time/energy to go back and change it.</p>

[AKittka]

<p>yeah same. this was my third subject test and i was so tired (and had to pee so bad. only 1 minute break after 2nd test! ahhh) i was not able to comprehend the passages well lol.</p>

[Begoner]

<p>For the question about what feelings the music educed in Kid Jones, I believe two of the choices were “a sweeping elemental force moving through him” and “a connection between his past, present, and future desires” or something. I put the latter.</p>

[_z]

<p>“What was going on in the line about her ‘demon blood’?
– I said they had sex. Supernatural sex, mmm.”</p>

<p>Haha, oh yes. Awesome question.</p>

[dottified]

<p>Begoner, I put the first choice.. the “sweeping elemental force” one.</p>

[Poseur]

<p>Begoner: I don’t think I put that one, either, for the Kid Jones one. I remember I had it narrowed down to three, and I cannot for the life of me think of what I ended up choosing. </p>

<p>Drayda: I couldn’t find an interpretation of the poem, but the myth is discussed at [Pygmalion</a> (mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology]Pygmalion"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology) and the poem is at [Classical</a> Mythology in English … - Google Book Search](<a href=“Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology - Google Books”>Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology - Google Books) </p>

<p>Some questions from the Zora passage: </p>

<p>What is the author’s attitude in the first paragraph?
– I said ‘self-celebratory’ or something to that effect.</p>

<p>To what does the word ‘jumble’ refer?
– I said ‘individual traits and characteristics,’ although some of the other choices seemed possible.</p>

<p>Which of the following is analogous to ‘a single heap’?
– I said ‘The Great Soul,’ since it was talking about piling up everyone’s bags into one heap. </p>

<p>What is the purpose of the reference to the Great Stuffer of Bags? (human life is insignificant / something about how who people are is a matter of chance)
– I don’t remember any of the other choices, and I’m pretty sure the answer wasn’t the ‘insignificant’ one. I put the one about people’s characteristics being a ‘matter of chance,’ since that was implied, but I dunno if that was the MAIN thing she was getting at.</p>

<p>Which of the following most closely reflects the author’s attitude? (emphasizes her individuality as opposed to her common humanity / has a sense of pride but knows that she is subject to unpredictable forces)
– I said the latter, because I think that the former was the OPPOSITE of what she was saying. None of the others seemed right. But I dunno about the ‘unpredictable forces’ thing…</p>

<p>Oh, and for the subject/verb one in the trains passage (I was just looking at some of the first pages), I said ‘it seems.’ I think that ‘main’ meant ‘independent clause,’ and all the others were preceded by ‘when’ or ‘as if’ and thus dependent clauses.</p>

[Begoner]

<p>Here is the text of some of the passages.</p>

<p>

It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make men better be,
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
A lily of a day,
Is fairer far, in May,
Although it fall and die that night;
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauty see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be.

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<p>

AT CERTAIN TIMES I have no race, I am me. When I set my hat at a certain angle and saunter down Seventh Avenue, Harlem City, feeling as snooty as the lions in front of the Forty?Second Street Library, for instance. So far as my feelings are concerned, Peggy Hopkins Joyce on the Boule Mich with her gorgeous raiment, stately carriage, knees knocking together in a most aristocratic manner, has nothing on me. The cosmic Zora emerges. I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.</p>

<p>I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong.</p>

<p>Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.</p>

<p>But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall In company with other bags, white, red and yellow. Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small, things priceless and worthless. A first?water diamond, an empty spool bits of broken glass, lengths of string, a key to a door long since crumbled away, a rusty knife?blade, old shoes saved for a road that never was and never will be, a nail bent under the weight of things too heavy for any nail, a dried flower or two still a little fragrant. in your hand is the brown bag. On the ground before you is the jumble it held?so much like the jumble in the bags could they be emptied that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place?who knows?

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<p>Galatea / Pygmalion.</p>

<p>[New</a> Perspectives on Robert Graves - Google Book Search](<a href=“New Perspectives on Robert Graves - Google Books”>New Perspectives on Robert Graves - Google Books)</p>

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Barbarous monster! how have I deserved that my passion should be resulted and treated with ironing?" “Madam,” answered Joseph, “I don’t understand your hard words; but I am certain you have no occasion to call me ungrateful, for, so far from intending you any wrong, I have always loved you as well as if you had been my own mother.” “How, sirrah!” says Mrs. Slipslop in a rage; “your own mother? Do you assinuate that I am old enough to be your mother? I don’t know what a stripling may think, but I believe a man would refer me to any green-sickness silly girl whatsomdever: but I ought to despise you rather than be angry with you, for referring the conversation of girls to that of a woman of sense.”–“Madam,” says Joseph, “I am sure I have always valued the honour you did me by your
conversation, for I know you are a woman of learning.”–“Yes, but, Joseph,” said she, a little softened by the compliment to her learning, “if you had a value for me, you certainly would have found some method of showing it me; for I am convicted you must see the value I have for
you. Yes, Joseph, my eyes, whether I would or no, must have declared a passion I cannot conquer.–Oh! Joseph!”
As when a hungry tigress, who long has traversed the woods in fruitless search, sees within the reach of her claws a lamb, she prepares to leap on her prey; or as a voracious pike, of immense size, surveys through the liquid element a roach or gudgeon, which cannot escape her jaws,
opens them wide to swallow the little fish; so did Mrs. Slipslop prepare to lay her violent amorous hands on the poor Joseph, when luckily her mistress’s bell rung, and delivered the intended martyr from her clutches. She was obliged to leave him abruptly, and to defer the
execution of her purpose till some other time.

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[njr1025]

<p>how about the question about the tone shift (I think?) in the zora passage. One of the answers was ebullient to pensive…did anyone else put that?</p>

[Poseur]

<p>Yeah, I put that. ‘Ebullient’ means lively, right? That made sense to me.</p>

[njr1025]

<p>yes, exactly. It was the only one that made sense, I thought.</p>

[eeeeric]

<p>so… any other question you guys can remember?</p>

[mattw09]

<p>this might have been asked already but what was the answer to that poetry form question? choices were iambic tetra/tri/pentamenter, blank verse and something else</p>

[Disneyguy]

<p>I recall saying blank verse.</p>

<p>I believe it was an except question. And all those other forms were actually used.</p>

[jemichho]

<p>haha all i remember is that i had the first poem. but the last passage i loved. but i skipped two for sure :T</p>

[eeeeric]

<p>i said blank verse as well.</p>

[rainbsprinkles]

<p>Definitely EXCEPT blank verse which is unrhymed iambic pentameter. </p>

<p>Penta-, tetra- and tri- were all used, and the poem rhymed.</p>

[eating_food]

<p>i gottttt 750!!!</p>

<p>I’m SO happy about this score. I was hoping for 700</p>

[circumlocution2]

<p>Did ANYONE get over a 770 on this? Just curious.</p>