<p>why does “chance” refer to her death? doesnt she accept the inevitability of death or something? i thought the answer would be her husband finding the note or whatever</p>
<p>hmm i thought chance referred to her death - the “chance” that he might see this letter if she died</p>
<p>any other things that people disagree with that i wrote?</p>
<p>lol they sound like basically the same thing. can anyone clear things up?</p>
<p>i think we have the same answer, we’re just wording it differently lol</p>
<p>To add on to earlier list:</p>
<p>“Man” Poem</p>
<ol>
<li> Poem = contrast between man and nature</li>
<li> “watchful clocks” = song</li>
<li>toyes and care = trifles and troubles</li>
<li>why can’t man find his home? LACK OF WISDOM OR PRESDESTINED RESTLESSNESS?</li>
<li>speaker’s opinion of man? contemptuous</li>
<li>what is the speaker saying about birds? they are fully sustained in what god provided for them</li>
<li>“mean” - HUMBLE OR AVERAGE?</li>
<li>wishes man could find repose?</li>
<li> one question had an answer about man’s restlessness</li>
</ol>
<p>“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”</p>
<ol>
<li> question about Guildenstern’s view on something - forget answer</li>
<li> I,II, III question - art imitates life, life imitates art, etc. I think the answer was I, II, III </li>
<li> the Player believes you should show audiences what they expect</li>
<li> Guildenstern is being earnest</li>
<li> the Player showed a real hanging which proved the audience didn’t believe him</li>
<li> a debate with no apparent winner</li>
<li> was one answer something like, Guildenstern is trying to instruct Rosencrantz?
<em>I’m missing some here I think</em></li>
</ol>
<p>Edna St. Vincent Millay poem</p>
<ol>
<li> “forbear” means to decline (or something along those lines)</li>
<li> live for today</li>
<li> exhortatory</li>
<li> a question about what lines 1-8 say…i forget!</li>
<li> all of the words have to do with old age except… i forget what the word was!</li>
<li> last question about author’s tone</li>
<li> meaning of “summer mischief” sentence</li>
<li> meaning of the metaphor</li>
<li> last sentence of passage: does it reiterate the basic argument of the whole poem (what I thought)? or simply the metaphor?</li>
</ol>
<p>I’m definitely forgetting some and clearly i don’t remember these answers! can someone fill in?</p>
<p>My opinions on Bee’s list: </p>
<p>Passage 1: “Before the Birth of one of her Children”</p>
<ol>
<li>reason for adversity: it follows us all of the time *I DISAGREE: I put down it always accompanies joy. </li>
<li>connection between sentence and knot: death and marriage YEA</li>
<li>why are they ignorant? don’t know when they will die YEA</li>
<li>who is the friend? the speaker YEA</li>
<li>“i am in effect none”: the speaker won’t be there anymore (i.e., she’ll be dead) YEA</li>
<li>“chance” = speaker’s death YEA</li>
<li>what does the speaker want? for her husband to love her when she’s gone YEA</li>
<li>who are the “Remains”? her children YEA</li>
<li>the path of the poem: i forget this question’s answer anyone remember? DON’T REMEMBER EITHER</li>
<li>what are the “gains” that the husband will have? joys that accompany him after she’s gone YEA</li>
</ol>
<p>Passage 2: The Vicar of Wakefield Passage</p>
<ol>
<li>Feelings of speaker: from self-congratulatory to dismayed YEA</li>
<li>fortitude: stoic self-restraint v. physicalness YEA</li>
<li>“viley deceived” = livy is to blame YEA</li>
<li>VIEW OF ENEMIES: ?? not sure about this one SOMETHING ABOUT MAN CANNOT FORGIVE ALONE W/O HELP</li>
<li>CONTRADICTORY, CONFUSING, DOGMATIC, ETC… CONTRADICTORY I think. Definitely wasn’t confused values. </li>
<li>question about what characterized the passage in general: choices were metaphors, something about abrupt sentences DISAGREE I PUT LOTS OF ATTITUDE/EMOTION CHANGES</li>
<li>i think there was a I, II, III question here…I put I, II, III as my answer, but can’t remember the question! DON’T REMEMBER</li>
</ol>
<p>Passage 3: “Sonny’s Blues” Excerpt
18. effect of opening sentence (chronology, poignancy,etc.) I PUT POIGNANCY, BUT WAS VERY UNSURE
19. all of the adults: communal experiences DON’T REMEMBER
20. obscurely: undefinably YEA
21. light does all of the following except: demonstrate the child’s aspirations YEA
22. the darkness outside represents: naivete of childhood (?) DON’T REMEMBER
23. the adults don’t speak about past because: they don’t want to scare the children YEA</p>
<p>Passage 4: The Yellow Wallpaper</p>
<ol>
<li>romantic houses: something like in a romance novel (? - no better choices!) YEA</li>
<li>The house is inexpensive and mysterious and romantic (I & II) YEA</li>
<li>one v. I: not because she is trying to exaggerate her illness YEA</li>
<li>the fact that she writes on her issues: trying to deal with her problems by herself DON’T REMEMBER</li>
<li>all of the following is indicated except that: her meds are working YEA</li>
<li>question about how she was obedient (or maybe, she was following expected patterns? I’m not sure, but I thought it was the former) I PUT FOLLOWED EXPECTED PATTERNS</li>
</ol>
<p>MY OPINIONS ON BEE’S LIST</p>
<p>To add on to earlier list:</p>
<p>“Man” Poem</p>
<ol>
<li>Poem = contrast between man and nature DON’T REMEMBER</li>
<li>“watchful clocks” = song YEA</li>
<li>toyes and care = trifles and troubles YEA</li>
<li>why can’t man find his home? LACK OF WISDOM OR PRESDESTINED RESTLESSNESS? … I PUT PREDESTINED RESTLESSNESS… lot more focused on God’s lot for man. </li>
<li>speaker’s opinion of man? contemptuous DISAGREE I PUT SYMPATHETIC. Contemptuous is a VERY loaded word, and I didn’t hear much actual negativity in the poem… I thought more sympathetic of how God cursed man to never rest. </li>
<li>what is the speaker saying about birds? they are fully sustained in what god provided for them YEA</li>
<li>“mean” - HUMBLE OR AVERAGE? … I PUT HUMBLE. Like as in “Humble creatures of the earth.” Who ever heard of Average Creatures? </li>
<li>wishes man could find repose? DON’T REMEMBER</li>
<li>one question had an answer about man’s restlessness DON’T REMEMBER</li>
</ol>
<p>“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”</p>
<ol>
<li>question about Guildenstern’s view on something - forget answer HE WOULD PREFER PLAYS TO HAVE REALITY IN THEM</li>
<li>I,II, III question - art imitates life, life imitates art, etc. I think the answer was I, II, III DISAGREE I PUT I and III, NOT II.</li>
<li>the Player believes you should show audiences what they expect DON’T REMEMBER</li>
<li>Guildenstern is being earnest YEA</li>
<li>the Player showed a real hanging which proved the audience didn’t believe him YEA</li>
<li>a debate with no apparent winner YEA</li>
<li>was one answer something like, Guildenstern is trying to instruct Rosencrantz? DON’T REMEMBER
<em>I’m missing some here I think</em></li>
</ol>
<p>Edna St. Vincent Millay poem</p>
<ol>
<li>“forbear” means to decline (or something along those lines) YEA</li>
<li>live for today YEA</li>
<li>exhortatory YEA</li>
<li>a question about what lines 1-8 say…i forget! </li>
<li>all of the words have to do with old age except… i forget what the word was! IT WAS COMPROMISING</li>
<li>last question about author’s tone DON’T REMEMBER</li>
<li>meaning of “summer mischief” sentence LOOKED ON IT FAVORABLY, I THINK</li>
<li>meaning of the metaphor DON’T REMEMBER</li>
<li>last sentence of passage: does it reiterate the basic argument of the whole poem (what I thought)? or simply the metaphor? REITERATES BASIC ARGUMENT </li>
</ol>
<p>I’m definitely forgetting some and clearly i don’t remember these answers! can someone fill in?</p>
<p>mowmow:</p>
<p>for #1, yeah, that’s what I put- I worded it wrong, but it was that adversity always accompanies joy, which is essentially what I wrote. </p>
<p>for #16, I also meant the choice about attitude changes. That was the correct answer I believe, I just forgot the wording (why I’m not good at generating lists lol).</p>
<p>for #29: I believe that she was being obedient, not following “expected patterns.” After all, she isn’t following expected patterns for a woman -she’s clearly mentally ill (I think another question asked what was wrong with her - she’s mentally ill. I forgot to put this!)</p>
<p>Do you guys remember one question on The Yellow Wallpaper:</p>
<p>why did other people believed her husband’s advice? all of the below EXCEPT… I remember putting down the option that said “BECAUSE THEY ARE MALE”</p>
<p>i put that down too</p>
<p>i think that the fact they are male only makes her obey them… after all, look at the year that the poem was published. It was some time in the 19th century, and obviously she would have to obey her husband in that era! also, there was no textual evidence to support that the meds were working for her, therefore the “except” answer was “She was taking meds.”</p>
<p>12. fortitude: stoic self-restraint v. physicalness YEA
i believe it was prudence v. willfulness. prudence means care and good judgement. so the son asked the dad, “is this your fortitude?” asking him “is this how you judge this?” and the father replied, “yes, with fortitude!” or something, which means his strong, unflappable will. physicalness would work, but what doesn’t fit is the stoic self-restraint. because he wasn’t being restraining at all, he was being hysterical. he wasn’t stoic by any means.</p>
<p>28. all of the following is indicated except that: her meds are working YEA
i put the fact that he was a male. it didn’t mention ANYWHERE in the passage that he derived his authority from being male, and assuming that gender roles would play a part in this passage seems like a trick that the collegeboard would make you want to fall into. he specifically gave her meds (phosphates/phosphites), that he believed were working, so i think “he is a man” is the best answer.</p>
<p>33. why can’t man find his home? LACK OF WISDOM OR PRESDESTINED RESTLESSNESS? … I PUT PREDESTINED RESTLESSNESS… lot more focused on God’s lot for man.
i believe it’s lack of wisdom, because though the passage is centrally about predestined restlessness, the 3 sentences right before the quote referenced how a “stone had mroe wit than a man” because it could point home, and how men would walk around homes opening doors, unable to remember where their home is.</p>
<p>34. speaker’s opinion of man? contemptuous DISAGREE I PUT SYMPATHETIC. Contemptuous is a VERY loaded word, and I didn’t hear much actual negativity in the poem… I thought more sympathetic of how God cursed man to never rest.
i put contemptuous because the speaker was very insulting of man and his inability to find his home, and he seemed bitter about how man was always in motion and restless and unable to stop, unlike the “steadfast and humble” flowers and such.</p>
<p>but the choice was “her meds are already working”</p>
<p>obviously they weren’t or she wouldn’t be so loony!</p>
<p>i put sympathetic…and prudence and willfulness</p>
<p>wait wait wait a second… are you sure “b/c they were male” was a choice on the same question as the “meds were working” one? because i remember putting both of these down!</p>
<p>I think one missing question is:
What was the general tone of Guildenstern&Rosencrantz?
was it cynical and compassionate?</p>
<p>the question about the crazy lady (from the yellow paper):</p>
<p>i remember it was a question that asked which factors asserted the authority of john as a physician in the eyes of the narrator (aka the crazy lady), EXCEPT: he was male, the lady’s brother agreed, he prescribed meds, he had her best interests at heart, he was her husband.</p>
<p>i put down the answer as “he was her husband.”</p>
<p>John is a physician, and perhaps–(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)–perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster.
You see he does not believe I am sick!
And what can one do?
If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression–a slight hysterical tendency-- what is one to do?</p>
<p>idk… it made sense to me that, because john was her husband, he would automatically trivialize her illness–and that, to the narrator, diminished his authority as a physician.</p>
<p>if i read/remember the question incorrectly, though, this could all be wrong.</p>
<p>i remember it was a question that asked which factors asserted the authority of john as a physician in the eyes of the narrator</p>
<p>the question didn’t say “in the eyes of the narrator.” it just asked all of these contribute to john’s authority as a physician EXCEPT</p>
<p>Just jumping in here. XD</p>
<p>I put “except her medications were working” or something to that effect</p>
<p>The authority of her husband as a physician would have been reinforced if the meds were working as they should - that is, if she was getting better. Obviously she knows for herself that the meds are, in fact, not working - as shown by the fact that she treats the description of the meds rather dismissively in the passage, and she wouldn’t even be writing that journal entry or whatever if those meds were working: the primary purpose of that passage was to relieve her feelings and frustrations on her condition and its persistence, so I believe the answer was the meds choice.</p>
<p>Some other questions I was wondering about:</p>
<p>~what about the enemies question? (the one from the wakefield passage). Here’s the excerpt:</p>
<p>It ill suited you and your reverend character thus to curse your greatest enemy: you should not have curst him, villian as he is.'–‘I did not curse him, child, did I?’–‘Indeed, Sir, you did; you curst him twice.’–'Then may heaven forgive me and him if I did. And now, my son, I see it was more than human benevolence that first taught us to bless our enemies! Blest be his holy name for all the good he hath given, and for all that he hath taken away.</p>
<p>I thought that was something about how humans aren’t in control of their impulses so we can’t blame them. But someone else said something about God has to help us?</p>
<p>~ what is the one that keywii is talking about? The tone of the poem? And was there a R&G question with an answer about Guildenstern teaching Rosencrantz? Also, did the I, II, III question about life/art imitating each other ask specifically about what Guildenstern or Rosencrantz thought? Was it just the whole play in general?</p>
<p>~ for the Yellow Wallpaper, there was a question about how she was being obedient (another answer choice was “following expected patterns”) what do people think on this one? and the one v. I?</p>