<p>I had 62 haha.</p>
<p>Lol aite guys, let's just stop posting cuz frankly I can't even cancel this test if I wanted to. =) (4 wrong so far...)</p>
<p>For the one about "why is willie dancing" i put that he was illustrating the philosophizing of hally and sam...</p>
<p>I dont know if its already been said because I haven't read the entire thread, but... that "astrology one" was a shakespearean sonnet from Sir Phillip Sydney's series astrophel and stella. I'm not even sure how I know that but one of the questions involved the volta, or turn between the first and second quatrains. This is very weird, I actually learned something useful in English. I'm actually a math/science person that took the literature one for kicks because I had an extra subject test to burn, so to speak.</p>
<p>They're quite fond of including sonnets from astrophel and stella. It's probably because less people are familiar with the works of Philip Sidney than those of Shakespeare, probably the most likely alternative source for classic English sonnets. In October (poor me, I really shouldn't have cancelled my scores), they had the first sonnet from that collection. Oh, and by the way, the turn was between the third and fourth quatrains.</p>
<p>And it's not a Shakespearian sonnet either. I shouldn't have even said quatrain: Octet followed by an improvised sestet consisting of a quatrain and a couplet. Hence the reason the turn occured at the 9th line rather than the 13th.</p>
<p>yea it didnt follow abab cdcde efef gg. It def. was btw 8-9 where not 13-14</p>
<p>Fine it was a Spensarian sonnet, either way there was a question involving the turn</p>
<p>Nope, it wasn't a Spenserian sonnet either. You were looking for Petrarchan or Italian :) Yes, there was a question regarding the turn, but it didn't take place where you said it did (you are right that the Spenserian sonnet's turn also takes place at the junction of the octave and the sestet).</p>
<p>The shift occurred between lines 8 & 9, when he begins speaking of himself in first person as opposed to describing others.</p>
<p>I put the the change occurred between lines 4 and 5 because if I remember right they actually used some term like "sentence structure" and there was a visible change in structure there. (All preceding sentences were broken up with colons, all of those that came after were not.)</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Though dusty wits dare scorn astrology,
And fools can think those lamps of purest light
Whose numbers, ways, greatness, eternity,
Promising wonders, wonder do invite,
To have for no cause birthright in the sky,
But for to spangle the black weeds of night:
Or for some brawl, which in that chamber high,
They should still dance to please a gazer's sight;
For me, I do Nature unidle know,
And know great causes, great effects procure:
And know those bodies high reign on the low.
And if these rules did fail, proof makes me sure,
Who oft fore-judge my after-following race,
By only those two stars in Stella's face.</p>
<p>The rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet is:abbaabba (turn) cdecde
Sidney's is only a slight deviation from the traditional italian sonnet: abababab (turn) cdcdee</p>
<p>So it was between 8 and 9 then?</p>
<p>What did "unidle" mean in the context of that sentence?</p>
<p>Do you remember the choices for unidle? (Haha my spell check says it's not a word.) I know that I had to give it careful consideration, but then I think I figured it out.</p>
<p>I put something about how Nature is deliberate, I believe..can't remember the exact choice, but that was the main idea.</p>
<p>I think I had something to the same effect as leah377.</p>
<p>I put something along the lines of leah and SweeterThnEqual: nature unidle does things of meaning, and doesn't just "dance to please a gazer's sight." I can't remember the actual word, though.</p>
<p>does anyone know if that short about the children and the dark is online?</p>
<p>did u guys get ur scores back? I'm taking the lit test next week, and it'd be great if you could post your raw score and final score, thx</p>