<p>i had apostrophe too as one answer in an “everything BUT this” kind of question. You guys get that too?</p>
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i put balance instead of apostrophe, idk :X</p>
<p>Why doesn’t it have balance?</p>
<p>It never has apostrophe</p>
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<p>That’s not true. At no point does the author reference a not present third party, but, instead, remains consistently talking to “you” the audience.</p>
<p>Apostrophe =/= speaking to the audience</p>
<p>I can hardly remember anything, just that the long country lovers passage was awful.</p>
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<p>For unavoidable, the first choice was to hide her attractions to Joe. Which is false.
Unavoidable was D, and I had C previously, but I don’t remember what it is.
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<p>I think the first question was like, to demonstrate the reality of poetry or how we can relate life to poetry.</p>
<p>The Poet passage, did anybody else put that the Poet was the one that makes it “dear man” ? I didn’t think the rest made sense because it’s so obviously from the narrator’s perspective the whole time.</p>
<p>Central focus was clearly city v. country; all other options are false, until you hit man v. woman. There is no comparison of the merits of either sex, so it’s city v. country.</p>
<p>does anyone remember the question in the country lovers passage about the things the two lovers had in common EXCEPT… i dont really remember the answers but i think i put something about miss B__whatever never adressed him lovingly or something? this was one of the questions i had the hardest time with</p>
<p>The answer is definitely fastidiousness. </p>
<p>I said that her examining the carpet was indicative of Joe being unwelcome b/c he ruined all of her valuables. </p>
<p>I also said that the “dear man” was the author in that country Miss. Blunt thing - which means that they only thing she and the author didn’t have in common was that an acquaintance interrupted them in some activity, right?</p>
<p>I said the focus was joy v. sadness since the country represented joy and and city sadness. </p>
<p>Also, what did you guys get for that one question about which pastoral techniques weren’t used in the passage?</p>
<p>ugh it was a little harder than I expected 
, I got -5q (-6) on the SAT BB practice test, but I’m not sure if I did that well again :(</p>
<p>There was A LOT of older prose/poetry (just two “modern” right? that horrible wheat poem and the easy Indian passage?)</p>
<p>That passage about the woman in the country was excrutiatingly painful
I said joy v sadness</p>
<p>For the pastoral tech I said the speaker identifies himself as a poet, what does that have to do with the rural style/technique? So i put it XD I was really rushed though</p>
<p>good I said fastidiousness =D</p>
<p>I said apostrophe as well
and fairytale</p>
<p>What did the “long… shadow of the wind…” mean? Was it the shadow of blowing wheat?</p>
<p>Ugh, hopefully since it was slightly more difficult than normal it has a nicer curve =D</p>
<p>No, they had that in common - she gets interrupted at the start by her mother who takes her away from the fair. He gets interrupted by “Gay” from his dreams of her.</p>
<p>They did not have affectionate referencing for each other in the piece, because SHE NEVER SPEAKS - he calls himself the dear man. He does, however, reference her dearly at the end of the passage.</p>
<p>I can’t say that the focus was joy v. sadness because there are also happy parts of the country that Miss Blunt might not have utilized, meaning that’s inaccurate. However, the comparison of city v. country remains true all throughout.</p>
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<p>Which valuables were ruined? I’m confused. She cleans up after him and nothing is ruined.</p>
<p>The pastoral techniques question…I’m not sure what the options were, but I think it was that nature’s virtues are never praised? Or something like that. I know I had that at one point but I know I might have changed it too… sigh.</p>
<p>I don’t quite remember the exact wording, and “ruin” isn’t it, but still, Joe gets dirt and crap all over the carpet and spills her stuff, and I think she was really annoyed. </p>
<p>I think it’s implied that “the man is dear” from her perspective - ppl don’t usually call themselves dears, though it could be possible the author’s incredibly conceited. She doesn’t have to speak - it’s her thoughts. </p>
<p>To answer this question:
“What did the “long… shadow of the wind…” mean? Was it the shadow of blowing wheat?”
I chose the answer that had fall in it - I thought it was the only one that made sense in the context of the answer.</p>
<p>Also, (back to OCD girl and Joe), it says she felt like the owner of a china shop that a bull (or was it bear? whatever) had just destroyed, which to me signified the answer that she felt Joe was unwelcome and “ruined her stuff” (again, I’m not sure if ruin is the word, but it was something similar)</p>
<p>lol OCD girl, she was such a mess</p>
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<p>Dear doesn’t necessarily imply emotionally it could imply attempts AT courting, etc.</p>
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<p>Then isn’t the answer that because Joe is so ignorant of her annoyance, it is inevitable…?</p>
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<p>I think I put something that had to do with the shadow the wheat made when it was made oblique by the wind. I’m not CERTAIN anymore, but I don’t think I put fall?</p>
<p>No Yaya, I disagree again, because it’s like the SIGHS of a chinashop owner, because Joe COULD ruin her stuff at any point.</p>
<p>Instead, he causes for blemishes and whatnot, but never actually ruins anything since it’s all reversible.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the basic gist of it is “ruin.” The option is basically: “angry (or afraid?) of Joe because he always ruins her precious objects.” (?)</p>
<p>Again, I don’t think ruin was the word, so let’s try not to get stuck on it. But either way, I don’t think that ruin means that it’s not reversible. Like if someone spill punch on you, you’d be like “crap! you ruined my shirt” even if you can just take it home and wash it. Back to the question, Joe wasn’t ignorant of her annoyance - it says so in the end where he said he was afraid of destroying her “fairy web” b/c he knew it’d really tick her off. </p>
<p>I’m not so sure about that “dear man” thing, so yeah… That whole passage was kind of confusing. But the poem said something like “oh, she was so sad she had to leave that dear man” or something. I took that as she thought that man was dear, and that the man was the author?</p>
<p>Yes, but what if, the author created her sympathy to begin with?</p>
<p>And no; the girl wanted Joe to just STOP VISITING HER…which Joe never understood.</p>
<p>Do you guys think that maybe we can try compiling a list of answers?</p>
<p>do you guys remember on the indian passage, the answer to the last question? criticism of the guy (name starts with a P)?</p>
<p>i said that he assumed everyone would welcome revolutionary change…</p>
<p>^ ^ ^ I considered that choice, but ruled it out do to the argument with his relatives. The fact that he had witnessed first hand peple resisting new ideas made it seem like an unlikely choice. In the end I believe I said that he expected it to have public effects . . . </p>
<p>Like many, I also thought it was difficult. I LOVED the wheat poem however. Hated the country one, and didn’t finish the Joe one 
Will definitely be retaking . . .</p>