June 2009 - Literature

Test Preparation SAT Subject Test Preparation
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<p>here’s what I remember</p>

<p>A) Woman seducing

  1. Everything except…woman is not ironic
  2. Intended to find her amusing…reader and narrator
  3. All is metaphor for man except…pike
  4. Woman used euphemisms
  5. Main theme was greed
  6. Oh Jo! Expression of love
  7. Lucky…shows writer’s sympathies
  8. …and ironed = acknowledged and prolonged
  9. all but deceitful
  10. last few lines used heroic simile
  11. liquid element = raised diction</p>

<p>B) Lily
9) Brevity, contrast to oak, metrical variety = all
10) Useful for convincing young people to enjoy life
11) Log described as bald and dry = old people
12) Uses all except blank verse (everything rhymes)
13) art of poem is short like flower’s life
14) last 2 lines…explicitly state the idea of the poem
15) no onomontopoeia is used
54) line with fairer farre…all but allusion</p>

<p>C) Douglas
16) States rhetoric = truth only in image
17) This man…this douglas = emphasizing stature and humanity of douglas
18) the final lines about statue show that…a poem can only be partial tribute to this great man
19) real tribute…is someone real living his ideals
20) speaker of poem…desperate for freedom
21) all forms of expression/communication except = stuff from family
22) when…freedom becomes real flesh and bone</p>

<p>D) Dee/mag
24) Mag angry because dee insulted grandma’s quilts
25) mom thinks dee appreciates quilts more
26) dee’s african name = changing identity
27) mom’s use of both = ambivalence about daughter’s identity
28) as passage progresses = dee becomes angry at mother
29) 1st paragraph…all but explaining why dee wants the quilts
56) theme = conflict of values</p>

<p>E) Waiting 4 lover
31) No allusions to lovers
32) The…pang of meeting…after world = paradoxical
34) The lines from I do, I do and world, world use repitition
35) Line of I do, I do and “my when” = she’s always thinking about him
36) start of poem…will end = because delight is too short
43) pang…P(word) = alliteration
44) for/because = justification of her love</p>

<p>F) Callous hands
37) go outside – lose some qualities, gain others
38) the sturf = tough folicle of line 3
39) which will narrator have best opinion = tough and calloused
40) less rain and sun = gain some insight
41) rough hands more converse with ideals = paradoxical
42) white hands indoors = misdirected
55) all of the following are contrasts in the poem except…</p>

<p>G) Name
45) Oh, really? = not angry statement
46) Telling her name = all except man is angry at her family
47) Quit b/c she was scared of failing
48) that one…imagination = she is different from the rest
50) “the mother” – they find her intimidating
51) the lines of mother telling her “better to be happy and no one…” and she refusing = reluctantly refusing to see her mother’s view
52) theme of poem…finding identity
53) she is uncomfortable b/c she wants to keep parts of her life separate</p>

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<p>Haha…looks like I’m the only person who put class snobbery instead of vanity on that question. Probably not the best sign!</p>

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<p>I thought it was pretty easy. The only test that went as desired today. Now since I said that I’ll probably get like a 650 and cry. I always like literature tests because even if I feel I’m doing badly, I can at least enjoy the stories and poems. My favorite this time were the lovers and the lily, but that first one starting with “Barbarous demon!” or whatever it was, I liked that too. It was funny.</p>

<p>Luminozz, I find it incredibly impressive that you can remember all of your answers like that. I’d swear they start dropping from my memory as soon as I turn the page.</p>

<p>ETA: Malapropism def: I always think of Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He says words he doesn’t mean for words he does. Life “refer” instead if “prefer,” as in the passage.</p>

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<p>was it ardent desire or the one that was something like seething hatred?</p>

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<p>Hmm, was the woman in the first passage using malapropism? I didn’t catch onto it. </p>

<p>I thought she used euphemisms, though. With the “ironing”, “green (children?)”, and etc.</p>

<p>Pretty sure it was ardent desire. Her eyes showed lust right before that sentence and there was something about her amorous arms.</p>

<p>Not sure how I felt about the test…@<a href="mailto:@">@</a>. Just gonna hope for the best. I never feel good after a standardized test…</p>

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<p>I thought this test was REAAALLY HARD! So much harder than the one I took in May and got a 720 on.</p>

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<p>I had no clue what a scurf was…guess I got that one wrong.</p>

<p>Overall it was actually quite easy. Weird, the test I prepare for (USH) I did terribly on and the test I had no prep for (Lit) I did well. O_o</p>

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<p>Are we allowed to post questions? I have a good gist of the 56 questions that I posted my answers for…</p>

<p>Found the passages online, too.</p>

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<p>Am I the only one who put “greed” and not vanity?</p>

<p>or were those two different questions, ahha</p>

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<p>In case anyone was wondering, I found out whence some of the passages came.</p>

<p>The “O Love my world is you” passage is from the collection Monna Innominata by Christian Rosseti. Its title is A Sonnet of Sonnets.</p>

<p>The Douglass passage was “Fredrick Douglass” by Robert Hayden</p>

<p>The Lily passage was A Pindaric Ode “To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morisonby” by Ben Johnson.</p>

<p>The first passage with the woman in love with the younger man was from page 12 of what is apparently one of the oldest English novels, Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding.</p>

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<p>No, I put greed too.</p>

<p>And yes, it was the same question.</p>

<p>Specifically, the passage used a lion as a metaphor for the woman, and a lamb as a metaphor for Joseph. A lion chasing after an innocent lamb is greed.</p>

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<p>That was the same question. I believe it was vanity because she wanted to be called young or something</p>

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<p>Does anyone remember the other answers for the greed/vanity question? I don’t think I put either.</p>

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<p>She was about to “devour” him, and the epic simile itself dealt with voracious animals; that’s what led me to put greed. </p>

<p>But vanity makes some sense, too.</p>

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<p>yeah, she overreacted when the guy referred to her as his “mother”. I don’t think it’s greed because her lust for Joseph isn’t accompanied by an excess of others or the present theme itself, it’s just focused on that one point</p>

<p>i thought the poet quit because she originally put poet as her career description, then degenerated to teacher/writer, but then “simply to teacher because she realized she had not written much in the past few years”. I don’t think she had a fear of failure, because she would read on stages and stuff, and wanted to please her mother. </p>

<p>I thought she called her mother only “the mother” because it narrowed the perspective to that specific role, i thought the passage more referred to the mother’s overriding obsession with one facet, and i didn’t see too much fear</p>

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<p>^ Hmm, I don’t know. Those answers make sense too.</p>

<p>Millancad, did you find the passage about the poet (Jo). So far we have…</p>

<p>1) Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
2) Frederick Douglas - Robert E Hayden
3) A Pindaric Ode - Ben Jonson
4) - O Love, my World is You - Christian Rosetti
5) Everyday Use - Alice Walker</p>

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<p>Ok, looking at Luminouzz’s answers I agree with most of them except:</p>

<p>4) Woman used euphemisms – I put malapropisms, pretty sure it’s right.
6) Oh Jo! Expression of love – ardent desire? I think.
8) …and ironed = acknowledged and prolonged – I put insulted and smthg… Idk.
30) last few lines used heroic simile – epic simile? yes?
33) liquid element = raised diction – inflated diction, yeah.
I also remember putting “hypocritical piety” as an answer for a question near the end and I think that was on this passage? I’m not sure if that’s a wrong choice for a queston already mentioned…</p>

<p>11) Log described as bald and dry = old people – I put corpse? It seemed like it </p>

<p>C) Douglas
I have all the same for this.</p>

<p>D) Dee/mag
24) Mag angry because dee insulted grandma’s quilts – I thought it was because she was afraid Dee would get the quilts? That seemed more like an impulse reaction than a thought out, “oh hey, she’s not respecting Grandma” you know?</p>

<p>E) Waiting 4 lover
31) No allusions to lovers
36) start of poem…will end = because delight is too short – was this something with the word melancholy? I remember putting that.
44) for/because = justification of her love – I put something like, trying to find logic behind her sentiments? I wasn’t sure…</p>

<p>F) Callous hands
38) the sturf = tough folicle of line 3 – yeah, think cuticle I think it was
42) white hands indoors = misdirected – I put invulnerable but I’m pretty sure that’s wrong lol
55) all of the following are contrasts in the poem except… – I put communicative vs. uncommunicative? I didn’t get that gist from the story at all.</p>

<p>G) Name
48) that one…imagination = she is different from the rest – I put it shows how little the mom knows her daughter.
50) “the mother” – they find her intimidating – I said because we don’t know about the mom other than her role in Yolanda’s life.
51) the lines of mother telling her “better to be happy and no one…” and she refusing = reluctantly refusing to see her mother’s view – I put, she finds her mother’s advice simplistic and unhelpful.</p>

<p>ALSO you left out the poem about the Onions…
I remember from that…</p>

<p>First lines = friction?
Some question about the “rain’s broken fingers”? What was it? I think I put like, the plight of the workers never ends
Onions unplugged from sleep = being harvested
Second and third paragraphs = two contrasting explanations for the tears
Some answer was, disconnect between worker and consumer?</p>

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<p>P.S. here’s the onion one.</p>

<p>Daybreak </p>

<p>In this moment when the light starts up
In the east and rubs
The horizon until it catches fire, </p>

<p>We enter the fields to hoe,
Row after row, among the small flags of onion,
Waving off the dragonflies
That ladder the air. </p>

<p>And tears the onions raise
Do not begin in your eyes but in ours,
In the salt blown
From one blister into another; </p>

<p>They begin in knowing
You will never waken to bear
The hour timed to a heart beat,
The wind pressing us closer to the ground. </p>

<p>When the season ends,
And the onions are unplugged from their sleep,
We won’t forget what you failed to see,
And nothing will heal
Under the rain’s broken fingers.</p>

<p>[The</a> Elements of San Joaquin by Gary Soto : The Poetry Foundation [poem]](<a href=“http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171724]The”>http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171724)</p>

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<p>^^ Think I agree with all above except “invulnerable”</p>

<p>And:</p>

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<p>What? I remember a passage like that on a practice test, but there was nothing similar on the test I took…</p>

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<p>i don’t recall onions…??</p>