<p>^ Restrained. It was talking about he only spent little and drank little I believe.</p>
<p>I thought it was undefinably. What did the two types of avarice discussion do to the ladys description? Make her seem more cheap?</p>
<p>“The silence, the darkness coming, and the darkness in the faces frighten the child obscurely.”</p>
<p>Secretly made more sense to me since the child was holding his/her fear inside. I could be wrong.</p>
<p>I definitely screwed up Before the Birth of One of her Children, I was thrown off by the questions and ended up thinking she was talking to her husband. but its directed to the child, right? I really liked both “to marguerite” and the sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay</p>
<p>@hjk1298 - I think the Birth poem was actually directed at the husband.</p>
<p>Yes, I think it made her seem more cheap (or definitely fit the stereotype of cheapness amazingly.)</p>
<p>I loved the passages today. The one with Sophie was hilarious and heartening. That is, if the author really was making fun of the society in an unconscious feminist way…</p>
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<p>I thought it ‘indefinably’ too. The child knew something was coming on, knew the adults knew but wouldn’t speak about it lest he knows it too soon - the whole thing had the air of a well-known secret - which could easily cloud a child’s face more with apprehension than with the burden of truth.</p>
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<p>I hope not!</p>
<p>Btw, what is the curve for this test? I heard the curve for lit is usually very harsh?</p>
<p>Also, for the passage about Sophie, it was ineffectual reasoning and ________ (i forgot the latter part), right?</p>
<p>The Sophia selection was hard!</p>
<p>I read the Birth poem as to her child at first, but then I realized some questions didn’t have any answers that made sense if reading it that way, so I had to go back and change an answer or two to reflect that it was to the husband.</p>
<p>The darkness definitely represented the harsh reality.</p>
<p>Can anyone explain that question on the same passage that read something like “Sentence (whatever number it was) can be seen as demonstrating all of the following except:”</p>
<p>I put something like “the light symbolizes the children’s hopes” but I thought they were all valid interpretations.</p>
<p>People on CC exaggerate the curve harshly. It’s probably like -3 or -4 800. Not the usual -1 = 790</p>
<p>oh good! the website someone linked to made it sound like she was talking to the child, but I’ve found a few others that say it was her husband</p>
<p>[Poetry</a> analysis: Before the Birth of One of Her Children, by Anne Bradstreet - by A. Jacobina Poulsen - Helium<a href=“and%20comparatively”>/url</a>
[url=<a href=“http://www.enotes.com/before-birth-one-her-children-salem/before-birth-one-her-children]Before”>http://www.enotes.com/before-birth-one-her-children-salem/before-birth-one-her-children]Before</a> the Birth of One of Her Children Summary - Anne Dudley - Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition](<a href=“http://www.helium.com/items/1317415-before-the-birth-of-one-of-her-children]Poetry”>http://www.helium.com/items/1317415-before-the-birth-of-one-of-her-children)</p>
<p>For Old Wives’ Tale, did Sophia’s mom’s tone turn from diplomatic to direct (or whatever) or was it laid back to urgent?</p>
<p>also, why were they ignorant? (in the birth poem)</p>
<p>@ OSUBuckeyes</p>
<p>I didn’t realize it was an ‘except’ kind of question! now I’m worried I missed a bunch of other stuff too…</p>
<p>and the cheap lady passage, was it irnoic that she cared about saving money? That was one of the answer choices for one of the questions , I don’t exactly remember.</p>
<p>@ leemonkey1 </p>
<p>I said ironic, because it had just been talking about how she hated the church for wanting people’s money</p>
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<p>That’s right, cuz of the beautiful line about when the lights are turned on, the child gets immersed in darkness… So light cannot be a symbol of hope.</p>
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<p>I went for ‘xyz and <em>[something] defiance.</em>’ All the options there were pretty apt.</p>
<p>And about the tone of the mother changing in line 15-17(?) I thought it was from “reason to passion,” but mostly because of the “Out of my way!”, which was pretty irrelevant to the topic. :S</p>
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<p>I thought it was ironic that she hated the clergy because they only cared about making money, since she lived by the same principle.</p>
<p>It was ironic cause she didn’t like clergymen for taking peoples money when that’s all she did. </p>
<p>They were ignorant cause they did not fully know what the other was feeling/understanding. </p>
<p>It was diplomatic to direct. </p>
<p>Sophia was adamant questioning and the mom was direct ordering I think?</p>
<p>I thought it was ironic because she hated the clergy for doing the same thing she was doing.
I put undefinably, and thought the lady was talking to her husband.
its scary how so many people have different answers on all of these questions.</p>