<p>YAY I PUT DOWN MAXIMS TOO!
ughhh but this test was SO HARD. i omitted 13 -_- considering cancelling. but glad to know that i’m not the only one who thought so…
what did you guys think of the ship passage?</p>
<p>yeah i did maxim too</p>
<p>i think the ship one was confusing even though it was not too hard</p>
<p>I thought it was ridiculously hard. LMAO, I literally don’t even remember how I figured out any of the questions.</p>
<p>How about the sonnet about making the woman immortal? It reminded me a lot of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18. What did you put down about what the last 2 lines meant? I was debating between them reiterating the theme from the last lines and something else.</p>
<p>I lol’d at the first choice for the first question…“Bennington is a ghost”</p>
<p>i said reiteration the first three quatrains</p>
<p>Same here! Yay. How about for the last passage? It asked for how the lines describing the woman singing (the indented ones) related to the other lines. I put down something about showing the pleasure aspect of the pain… or something like that.</p>
<p>^Haahaha
I smiled to myself (: too</p>
<p>sirena - did it say pleasure aspect of pain verbatim? o_o i don’t think it did… well, whatever the answer that was like “shows the good side of something bad” i put that down :)</p>
<p>yeah i chose the pleasure aspect of pain too.</p>
<p>but i dont think i chose the reiteration the first three quatrains…but i can’t remember what i chose</p>
<p>LMAO it’s not word for word, I’m terrible at remembering specific wording. But yes, that one!
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Hmmm, what other ones… OH for the one that listed comparisons between the sea and the land, and it asked for which one wasn’t in the passage… I was debating between “exaltation… and then another word I don’t remember” and “companionship… solitude.”</p>
<p>What is that floating “ing”? Lmao, clearly I can no longer think…</p>
<p>I chose something along the lines “it exemplifies the paradox the poem’s based on”. I was almost sure I was wrong, though.</p>
<p>I didn’t put reiteration, as the last two lines of a sonnet are usually revelatory, and that seemed to be the case for this one too. </p>
<p>it was something about how the women could fly above the vulgar _________ by
not revering the ideal woman or w/e.</p>
<p>I’m with you guys about the difficulty - I was unsure about so many of my answers.</p>
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<p>I don’t think it was companionship and solitude. That was a fair comparison.</p>
<p>I debated between exaltation and tempestuous, and the stern of the boat and dictorial power (or something along those lines)…</p>
<p>I considered that too, about the last 2 lines, but the first line said that the author planned on making her immortal through the poem… so I thought it just reiterated?</p>
<p>But yeah… pretty much agreed about the uncertainty. LMAO, the first passage was the only one I was at least slightly sure about.</p>
<p>not sure about a lot of my answers either…
yeah that’s what the poem means i guess about the woman</p>
<p>same! I was unsure about many of the questions ):
I didn’t do well on the Barron’s practices, not at all, so I’m not expecting much on this one</p>
<p>enfieldacademy - the stern one was for a different question! I put down “companionship and solitude” because even though the passage did say that the shore was comprised of “friends,” it never explicitly stated that the sea was solitude? Only that it was dangerous.</p>
<p>I thought “exaltation and tempestuous” seemed right, since the author did praise the shore, and had conflicting, intense emotions for the sea…</p>
<p>the passage with the man and woman sitting down facing the sea:</p>
<p>what was the narrators attitude towards the man?
– I put indifferent…</p>
<p>how would you characterize the woman’s responses to him?
– I said she avoided talking about herself</p>
<p>how would the man actually exercise? (he gives a very enthusiastic answer to the woman)
–I said he wouldn’t exert himself too much. this seemed like a weak answer though. I was going on the fact that he doesn’t like damp air/ wind.</p>
<p>enfieldacademy - I got the same answers for those 3! :)</p>
<p>sirena -</p>
<p>I thought exaltation was unclear because he would probably exalt both the sea and the shore, but for different reasons. And between the two, exaltation would probably more accurately describe his feelings for the sea (as this is the place he is most devoted too).</p>
<p>yeah, your right solitude was never explicitly stated. I inferred it though because the two places (the sea and the shore) seem like opposites. Also he appeared to be alone at sea (but who knows).</p>