<p>Were there different versions of SAT literature? I’ve been talking with some friends about it and they didn’t get certain passages that I got. Like the poem in which the stanzas all started with Ye. Well maybe not a poem I forget but it kept saying ye Ye ye ye.</p>
<p>Probably around -3 or -4 for an 800.</p>
<p>So what would be a -7 or -8?</p>
<p>^^^ my guess would be 730-760</p>
<p>I don’t think the curve is that harsh… I hope not at least</p>
<p>I think -7 or -8 = 730-760 is the regular curve.</p>
<p>i got 3 wrong, 4 i’m unsure about</p>
<p>“just” meant “merely”… he was saying… we merely see beauty in life… something along those lines</p>
<p>log i put an aging person because corpse, to me, was too explicit and never really mentioned in the poem</p>
<p>and i put “explain the untimely death of a friend”… total guess</p>
<p>something about recollections of a family, in the douglas part? anyone else?</p>
<p>white hands were misguided because the author was talking about the importance of experience the whole time… so white, not-calloused hands are inexperienced, and misguided?</p>
<p>someone please answer all of these for me PLEASE</p>
<p>“Just” meant true or real</p>
<p>“Log” meant corpse, I’m pretty sure - Tree:Log (dead tree) as Human:Corpse (dead human)</p>
<p>Instead of “untimely death,” I put “showing young people that the small things are beautiful” or something like that</p>
<p>recollections of the family is right</p>
<p>misguided is right</p>
<p>hmm…</p>
<p>well in context of the poem, i thought just meant merely… you merely see beauty in life, and life is perfect for only short times… idk…</p>
<p>and log… hmm… isn’t the purpose of a metaphor to not be as literal as you just made it? maybe i’m mistaken</p>
<p>In context, since the poem was discussing what was “truly” beautiful, saying that heroic and strong things don’t constitute life’s “true” beauty, I took “just” to mean “true” (setting the “little” things in opposition to the “big” things)</p>
<p>Too many quotation marks.</p>
<p>Anyway, I thought the word “Felled” (used in the poem to describe the tree that became a log) was indicative of death.</p>
<p>a log is not a dead log until it falls off</p>
<p>an old person is not a corpse until they die</p>
<p>idk… never mind. june 25th =D</p>
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<p>Truth. I could’ve gotten every single question wrong for all I know, haha</p>
<p>Lit was easier than the practice tests I took…I’m not sure what score to expect because I was a bit iffy on some of the questions. Forgot what malapropism was. Hoping for 800 to go with 800 CR, but I’m pretty sure that’s not happening.</p>
<p>hey, for anyone who’ll come back to this, a couple of questions/comments to clarify some of the stuff discussed here</p>
<p>on the FIRST passage (slipstock)
-I got “woman is not deceitful”. anyone agree?
-was it joseph/reader/narrator or just reader/narrator
-what was the question that people are saying the answer to is “all but deceitful”?
-what was the “ironic modesty” question</p>
<p>on the SECOND passage (lily)
-why did brevity apply? maybe i’m not remembering the lines properly
-anyone else get untimely death?</p>
<p>on the THIRD passage (douglass)
-why couldn’t the statues be able to convey a message? the writer only says douglass could best be remembered in a different means, not that the statues can’t be a tribute on their own</p>
<p>on the FOURTH passage (dee/mag)
-why isn’t it “mom’s getting back at dee for rejecting the quilt originally?” it’s implied that the mom first tried to give it to dee, and the passage said “i didn’t mention how she had scoffed at the quilt…”
-was it contest for affection or conflict of values</p>
<p>on the FIFTH passage (waiting for lover)
-what was the question for the “pang of meeting = paradoxical” answer</p>
<p>on the SIXTH passage (callous hands)
-wouldn’t the narrator best appreciate thought? he talks about the value of the insight learned from working
-did anyone else get something along the lines of “impervious” for the white hands question?</p>
<p>if none were omitted, how many could you miss to still have a 770+? </p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>I’ll try to answer what I can.</p>
<p>on the FIRST passage (slipstock)
-I got “woman is not deceitful”. anyone agree? (Yes)
-was it joseph/reader/narrator or just reader/narrator (I put just the reader/narrator, but I’m not sure to this one)
-what was the question that people are saying the answer to is “all but deceitful”? (It was a list of her qualities that the narrative manifested…)
-what was the “ironic modesty” question (It was a question on the theme of the passage…it was either greed, vanity, or class snobbery (due to their speech differences) but it was not ironic modesty)</p>
<p>on the SECOND passage (lily)
-why did brevity apply? maybe i’m not remembering the lines properly (the lily is “of a day” and thus it is brief, so brevity applies)
-anyone else get untimely death? (Yes, after reading it over, I’m pretty sure untimely death is the right answer. Unfortunately, I put something else.)</p>
<p>on the THIRD passage (douglass)
-why couldn’t the statues be able to convey a message? the writer only says douglass could best be remembered in a different means, not that the statues can’t be a tribute on their own (The writer strongly implies that the statues are a secondary way of representing Douglas, and that the best way is through real people. Thus, the statues are only a visual representation).</p>
<p>on the FOURTH passage (dee/mag)
-why isn’t it “mom’s getting back at dee for rejecting the quilt originally?” it’s implied that the mom first tried to give it to dee, and the passage said “i didn’t mention how she had scoffed at the quilt…” (This isn’t the reason. Dee’s mom says in the passage that Maggie will “put them to practical use” and thus better understand their real value. Dee cannot comprehend this, as she just wants to hang them up. Dee’s mother realizes that her values are misplaced).
-was it contest for affection or conflict of values (Conflict of values between real, practical use and superficial, aesthetic use.)</p>
<p>on the FIFTH passage (waiting for lover)
-what was the question for the “pang of meeting = paradoxical” answer (It was a question on the pang of meeting in connection to the “he is my world” lines. It is paradoxical because she is delighted, but also hurt because the meeting will be over so quickly).</p>
<p>on the SIXTH passage (callous hands)
-wouldn’t the narrator best appreciate thought? he talks about the value of the insight learned from working (The primary subject of the passage is that calloused, working hands (experienced ones) are better than white hands (inexperienced ones). He appreciates thought, but the main theme is that thought is produced through hard work…the callous hands.</p>
<p>-did anyone else get something along the lines of “impervious” for the white hands question? (That answer was invulnerable…which translates to invincible. The narrator considers the hands sheltered and less experienced than the calloused, working hands - thus, they are not invincible. They are misdirected, because the white hands falsely believe that staying indoors is better than being outside).</p>
<p>A 770+ is around 5-6 wrong. It’s a harsh curve.</p>
<p>I’m regretting taking this as a sophomore. I was unfamiliar with some of the literary terms on the test, and prob got 2-3 questions wrong because of them. Will prob cancel and retake as a junior next year.</p>
<p>It was the 17th century poetry that got to me. What was the ‘logge’??</p>
<p>ok addressing the mother’s reasons for addressing Dee as Wangero: I don’t think she was ambivalent toward Dee, but more confused of her intentions. She sees a lot of contradictions in Dee suddenly coming back from college a changed person, who wants to connect with her heritage, but still remembers the person that didn’t want the quilts at all, just a few years earlier. The mother was confused about what exactly Dee (Wangero) was looking for, and why she wanted the quilts. </p>
<p>For the logge thing in the jonson poem - the quote goes
"Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a logge at last, dry, bald, and sear "
The word “corpse” just doesn’t work here for me, it’s too negative, and I don’t understand why jonson would further describe it as dry, bald, and sear. (Not all corpses are dry, bald and sear, b/c they don’t all die of old age). Those adjectives much more apply to an aged person who has suffered the ravages of time.</p>
<p>Guys, for #1 i also included Joseph was intended to find her amusing.</p>
<p>I mean it said " who … (apparently) or was intended to find ms. xxx amusing?"</p>
<p>agree with MNova on both counts</p>