OCTOBER SAT Subject Test: Literature

<p>addendum-- the fair days...i put the difference extended beyond weather? maybe im taking "fair" too literally, but it seems to fit</p>

<p>really? i saw it as an allusion to the story of jason and the golden fleece, where he slays the dragon, plants the teeth, and the army springs up</p>

<p>dragon tooth question: the one about the new generation of life?</p>

<p>stasis-but the change had been "assigned" how would it be "accidental?"</p>

<p>For the vial question I put healing. B/c before in the passage it referred to books as a remedy (or something of that sort).</p>

<p>no
the vial is a distillation of intellect for sure
the guy keeps tlaking about "books are human smart! they have the knowlege of dead guys!"</p>

<p>Agree with vial = distillation and dragon tooth = new life.</p>

<p>vial is a distillation. That passage was really easy in all honesty. </p>

<p>I'm pretty sure we can't consider rain a "shadow of the wind" in context. I think you're reading to much into it. But that question is a toughie because in all honesty is can be interpreted either way...bad question in my opinion. </p>

<p>Also, "unknown" fits into undivined much better than revealed I think...go read the poem again :P</p>

<p>haha lolcats...that passage just didnt do it for me. but a little poking around the net consistently reveals undivined to mean unheralded, or unexpected. that was an answer choice, i remember. either way, im wrong (but undivined...take away divinity of...bring to earth this wonderful magic...reveal the godly doings...makes perfect sense in my mind, lol)</p>

<p>no :P there was no unexpected answer choice. I remember because I wanted for there to be one but there wasn't, so I picked the closest (unknown)</p>

<p>Anyone want to weigh in on these? </p>

<p>Point of view? Dagget or observer?
Louisa's work style is personal and idiosyncratic? (what was the other option that people put)</p>

<p>ah damn, i put unknown first but then got carried away changed it. thats -4 for me now...
i put personal and idiosyncratic. there was a close answer choice, but one of the adjectives was just blatantly wrong. plus it goes with the answer to another question, the one with the dual meaning- joe implies she is peculiar
in the context of the whole book, it seems the POV is observer. thats a tricky one</p>

<p>everything was fine and dandy EXCEPT for the Louisa passage. analyzing that took up so much time that I had only 4/5 minutes to work on the last poem :/.</p>

<p>Did anyone take this test down cold?
I had signed up for the U.S History and then ended up taking lit...lol</p>

<p>not sure about the point of view...but wasn't it told in third person narrative??
and i'm pretty sure louisa's work style was personal and habitual...
so what exactly is the "shadow of the wind" one?????</p>

<p>dont think personal and habitual was an answer choice...personal and idiosyncratic was one though</p>

<p>^^ that's what it was, personal and habitual!! I was trying to remember what I put down. The other word with idiosyncratic made it a bad choice (it wasn't personal + idio..). arghrghrg I don't know. Anyone else remember?</p>

<p>Also, I think the point of view was observer, since the book the passage is from is written in the POV</p>

<p>shadow of the wind I got invisible force bending the wheat</p>

<p>hmnn. what was the other word with idiosyncratic? i have no idea what i put now</p>

<p>"Did anyone take this test down cold?"</p>

<p>I signed up for it, but I only studied for US History so I didn't really know what to expect. I just figured that an 800CR and 5 Lang meant that this would be just as easy, but I really should have put more time into preparing. I'll probably end up retaking it in December.</p>

<p>Wow, I took the Lit test in January, it's crazy to think that if I had taken it a month earlier I could have had the same test.....</p>

<p>nah this test is all sorts of strange. english and the like is my best subject, im also pretty good at sat verbal. however, i always seem to fail this.</p>