<p>I didn’t have the onion poem?</p>
<p>And here’s the Yolanda one – look down to page 33-34 range.</p>
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<p>Maybe I had some kind of experimental test? I definitely had a poem about onions lol… I’m sure someone else out there had it?</p>
<p>o-o lol ^the onions is a poem from the test in the blue book.</p>
<p>fearless10,</p>
<p>4) Hmm, not sure. I’ll have to reread.
6) Yeah, pretty sure it was ardent desire.
8) Didn’t feel like Joseph was insulting or smiting her.
30) Yeah, epic simile.
33) = Inflated diction, sorry. Not sure why I used raised diction.
Pretty sure it wasn’t hypocritical piety…it was either vanity or greed. I put greed, but vanity also sounds like a decent choice.</p>
<p>11) Don’t know. Corpse works too here…</p>
<p>C) Douglas
I have all the same for this.</p>
<p>D) Dee/mag
24) At the end Maggie says “She can go ahead and take the quilts…I can remember Grandma without them.” I thought that supported she was simply angry because Dee had called the quilts “old” in a nonchalant way.</p>
<p>E) Waiting 4 lover
31) No allusions to lovers - yes
36) Yeah, there was an answer with both hope and melancholy, which is what I put.
44) I also put logic behind her sentiments.</p>
<p>F) Callous hands
38) Ya, not sure whether it was folicle or cuticle…but it was line 3 lol.
42) Invulnerable = invincible…don’t think so here, but I’ll go back and reread.
55) I erased this one just as time ended. I also put communicative/uncomm at first, but at the end it says calloused hands “converse” more easily with heroic ideals than white ones.</p>
<p>G) Name
48) Not sure. I thought she usually brought up her imagination when the passage talked about how misguided her other daughters were.
50) That makes sense…“the” mother is distant. Hmm, don’t know.
51) I didn’t read the passage that well, I’ll go over it again. Didn’t sense anything about her finding her mom’s advice simplistic or unhelpful though.</p>
<p>Edit: Anyone know where the passage about the calloused hands came from?</p>
<p>Also, I got the simplistic/unhelpful advice from it saying, she reacted much like when her mother told her white was better than pink. Like her mother tells her useless little bits of advice that don’t really mean anything?</p>
<p>Hmm, yeah, that does make sense.</p>
<p>Still can’t find the passage about the calloused hands…</p>
<p>The calloused hands is “Walking” by Thoreau. Lemme find a link.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/thoreau/walking.html[/url]”>http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/thoreau/walking.html</a></p>
<p>Just do ctrl+F for “callus” to find the right part.</p>
<p>Thanks. I wonder what the curve for an 800 will be…</p>
<p>What was the “my hope is like the waning and waxing of the moon” one?</p>
<p>I put her hope like changed between her lover’s visits, but I also thought the one with her hope being suspended for long periods of time could work…</p>
<p>Yeah, I put the one where her hope is quietly suspended or something. Is it just me or could all of the answers to that question kind of be right?</p>
<p>Put changed between the lover’s visits… other answers seemed right too</p>
<p>Here’s what I put — (btw, I had no onion poem. XP)</p>
<p>A) Woman seducing
- Everything except…woman is not ironic
- Intended to find her amusing…reader and narrator
- All is metaphor for man except…pike
- Woman used euphemisms <–I think this is correct, but I actually omitted the the question.
- Main theme was VANITY, I assumed, because the woman was so self-righteous.
- Oh Joseph! = Expression of love
- Luckily = shows writer’s sympathies
- resulted and ironed = “insulted and mocked”
- all but deceitful … I do not recall this question exactly.
- last few lines used epic simile
- liquid element = inflated 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 = I put corpse, but it could be old people, as well. o_o
12) Uses all except blank verse (everything rhymes)
13) structure of the poem is short and beautiful, like the lily
14) last 2 lines…explicitly state the idea of the poem
15) no onomatopoeia is used
54) line with fairer farre…all but allusion.</p>
<p>C) Douglas
16) States rhetoric = [I don’t remember the answer choices well enough]
17) This man, this douglas = emphasizing stature and humanity of douglas
18) the final lines about statue show that … [I don’t remember the answer choices well enough]
19) real tribute = someone living the ideals
20) speaker of poem = desperate for freedom
21) all forms of expression/communication except = stuff about family
22) when … freedom becomes real flesh and bone</p>
<p>D) Dee/mag
24) Mag angry because … Dee/Wangero is trying to claim the 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 changing identity
28) as passage progresses = dee becomes angry at mother
29) 1st paragraph…all but explaining why dee wants the quilts
56) theme = I do not remember what exactly I put, except that it was not “conflict of values.” I am thinking, however, that “conflict of values” might have been the way to go!</p>
<p>E) Waiting for the lover
31) No allusions to lovers from classical myth
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 of parting” = alliteration
44) for/because = justification of her love</p>
<p>F) Callous hands
37) go outside – lose some qualities, gain others
38) the sturf = I do not remember what I put, but it was not cuticle.
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 = I actually put “healthy.”
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 because she had gradually ceased to write.
48) that one, imagination = [I do not remember this question exactly]
50) “the mother” … I too said that the narration seems to restrict her role to “the mother,” but it could be that she is intimidating, too.
51) the lines of mother telling her “better to be happy and no one…” and she refusing = I really think it is “she finds her mother’s advice simplistic and unhelpful.”
52) theme of poem…finding identity? I don’t remember at all.
53) she is uncomfortable b/c she wants to keep parts of her life separate</p>
<p>I put suspended…</p>
<p>The intensity of her hope doesn’t seem to decrease.</p>
<p>I think the question about the waxing and the waning of the moon corresponds respectively to the increase and decrease of her love for him, when he is away. The moon, like her love, fluctuates. Wax/increase, wane/decrease.</p>
<p>The woman didn’t use euphemisms, she used malapropisms.</p>
<p>Straight from wiki: “A malapropism is the substitution of an incorrect word for a word with a similar sound, usually to comic effect.”</p>
<p>The woman said ‘refer’ instead of ‘prefer’… ‘ironing’ instead of ‘irony’ etc.</p>
<p>On the other hand… “A euphemism is a substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener”</p>
<p>That’s like saying ‘fudge’ instead of ‘f***’… not quite the same.</p>
<p>"The intensity of her hope doesn’t seem to decrease. "</p>
<p>Er, Wax and wane = increase and decrease</p>
<p>“I think the question about the waxing and the waning of the moon corresponds respectively to the increase and decrease of her love for him, when he is away. The moon, like her love, fluctuates. Wax/increase, wane/decrease.”</p>
<p>^^ yup. Suspended was incorrect</p>
<p>^ Oh, thanks. I didn’t take the poem literally enough…</p>
<p>The tone sounded like she was waiting eagerly all the time.</p>
<p>when you guys say, for the Really? question “not an angry statement” do you mean not an “impertinent challenge”?</p>
<p>also, i put “reluctantly rejected…” for the poet because she wanted to think of herself as happy being only a teacher, and not someone special like her mother had envisioned. i probably misinterpreted this, but the phrase “white was a better color than pink” or something like that might have been symbolism for a rather colorless but happy life as opposed to a life with less conformity, as a poet, but would still cause some pain (the pink color). the other options seemed too extreme to me.</p>
<p>Yeah. Couldn’t remember the exact wording.</p>
<p>^Your white/pink explanation makes sense.</p>
<p>The…found her advice useless and trivial option also seemed harsh to me.</p>