*** Official Literature Thread ***

<p>^Same here. I have an 800 CR but this test was impossible.</p>

<p>i am praying for a very generous curve!!!!</p>

<p>The subject was Sun not fog.</p>

<p>Yeah, i got that the subject was Sun too. I honestly didn't think the test was THAT hard, I almost enjoyed taking it...COMPARED TO THE FRENCH ONE, OMG! lol</p>

<p>Did anyone think that this test was a lot like the AP Lit test?</p>

<p>yeah i thought it was hard...didnt finish the last three questions and didnt get a chance to check ne of my others but so far ive got most of the answers that have been posted here...hopefully a great curve...</p>

<p>and yeah it was similar to the stuff we practice in AP English class, but ive heard tht SAT Lit is SUPPOSED to be easier than AP English Lit</p>

<p>btw i put Sun as well</p>

<p>Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. </p>

<p>here's the exact line. okay you guys are right...it's the sun.</p>

<p>were the geese a confirmation of the appropriateness or a sign of future success?</p>

<p>the 'thing' suggests all except? I put breath - the other options were hills, earth, sun, dream I think</p>

<p>and if the main topic of the satire was berating men who are contemptuous of women writers, wouldn't it make sense if the other question on 'copy' was produce characters in a play, instead of women actually adopting the mannerisms?</p>

<p>on the 'my friends', I said it was going against convention instead of an unscrupulous preacher.</p>

<p>Ehh... what would missing 7ish and skipping 10ish approximate to on curve?</p>

<p>This is me being generous to myself, too...lol.</p>

<p>it's the sun...there's no debate over that one</p>

<p>^ that's like the only one I was like sure about, lol....</p>

<p>I didn't read the one passage about the City or something like that....I just guessed. what are the answers?</p>

<p>curve probably?</p>

<p>cows on a stick...I took the lit test after the spanish one and i almost cried, it was so easy (at least comparatively). Spanish completely pwned me to the last man but I Swned lit and my only regret is that I didn't take lit before spanish, cause if I did I probably would have gotten a full score. As it is, I left a minimum of one third of the spanish blank, while I was shaky as *@&# on the rest of it. I ended up with a 560 in spanish and a 750 in lit. I was so happy that lit was pretty much a more interesting version of critical reading, which I'm pretty good at (800)...the gods smiled on me that day, I guess. I took it in DC, which very nearly sunk me, cause I caffeinated pretty hard beforehand and they made us wait outside until almost 10 AM (two hours late). All of the extra focus-age/energy went right out the window. I was really counting on that to see me through spanish, but that obviously didn't work. Again, really lucky that lit was easy.</p>

<p>"Ehh... what would missing 7ish and skipping 10ish approximate to on curve?</p>

<p>This is me being generous to myself, too...lol."</p>

<p>I want to know this too!</p>

<p>but, hey lets say missing 10..just for teh hell of it!</p>

<p>taggint this thread</p>

<p>how many passages were there?</p>

<p>around 5-6</p>

<p>I did so badly I'm not even going to talk about it although I usually love to talk about tests. :(</p>

<p>how many passages exactly, though?</p>

<p>I think the hard part about the Lit tests are that the answers are so subjective because literature can be interpreted in so many ways. Some of the questions the tests asks are confusing and I'm sure we could debate about them for days and days and never know who's right.</p>

<p>WOW. I thought that was incredibly harder than the June one. The poetry, especially the life bores me and the grief one made little to no sense. I'm considering that I cancel and stick to my previous 670.</p>

<p>Did anybody else get:</p>

<p>Heroic couplets</p>

<p>For the extra food, I put optimism for the City since the question asked the reader had to look at the WHOLE context so I didn't put sympathy</p>

<p>And I can't think of anything else...</p>

<p>For everyone: add questions/answers/corrections if you remember. Hope this will help people out.</p>

<p>Bleak House
1. first paragraphs create what (tangible atmosphere question)
2. soot, fog, etc represent (roman numeral questions)
3. subject of seen by ploughboy
4. which of the following does not contribute to structure (choices were similar syntax, talking about the High Chancellor in the beginning and end, etc.)
5. the layers of soot compounding, adding onto each other, what is the purpose of that line (something along the lines of linking commercial and natural??)
6. Primary purpose of this passage is to (show ineptitude in legal system?)</p>

<p>Woman making fun of men passage
1. passage does not talk about men preferring to write about religion
2. purpose of lines so and so: to make an attack and self-congratulate
3. written by a woman making fun of men
4. the ironic phrase is “these fine things” (the things are clearly not fine)
5. “we’ll copy men” means what?
6. heroic couplet
7. which of these literary devices is used (choices were allusion, simile, etc.) I said antithesis, because the ideas were being contrasted?
8. poem berated men who didn’t think highly of women writers
9. which of these does not refer to what the author is attacking: (choices were “coxcomb,” “men,” something fool, etc…”) I said ‘men” for this one because the men they referenced in the question were just regular writers, not specifically contemptuous ones? EEK.
THIS IS ALL I THINK!</p>

<p>Alfred Lord Tennyson Poem! (Loved this one)
1. “thing” is NOT referring to what? (I said spirit) here’s the poem
There rolls the deep where grew the tree.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
There where the long street roars, hath been
The stillness of the central sea.
The hills are shadows, and they flow
From form to form, and nothing stands;
They melt like mist, the solid lands,
Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
But in my spirit will I dwell,
And dream my dream, and hold it true;
For tho’ my lips may breathe adieu,
I cannot think the thing farewell
2. line 3-4 reverses the elements in line 1
3. fluidity of change by using words like “melt,” go, etc.
4. a roman numeral question: the first lines compare what things (past and future, serenity and disorder)
5. geographic transformations</p>

<p>Bored of everything poem:
<a href="http://www.cs.rice.edu/%7Essiyer/minstrels/poems/1368.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1368.html&lt;/a>
1. why INNER Resources capitalized v. not (I said his attitude versus his mother’s)
2. tranquil hills and gin are representative of common things of solace
3. For the question with “wry” as one of the choices, I think I put that he was finally left alone
4. I don’t remember the question, but I remember choosing something with “disillusionment in it”
-MORE</p>

<p>Riding trains/city passage (this one’s from Toni Morrison’s Jazz, we read it in English LIT!) QUESTIONS:
1. homey it up
2. black waiter laced with something
3. city portrayed as affectionate?
4. the first sentence (something about “colored section of the train) highlights racial separations?
5. something about a homecooked meal?
6. the two travelers really looked forward to the city?
-</p>

<p>Grief is passionless poem (<a href="http://www.bartleby.com/101/681.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bartleby.com/101/681.html&lt;/a&gt;)
1. lines 2-4 say that people have not felt full grief who express it?
2. compares something and a desert?
3. direct address in lines 1-8 means to instruct
4. monumental statute, author advises reader to grieve as still as the statue (or is it with the statue’s dignity?)
5. the statue crumbles, saying grief will at some point cease to exist?
6. half-taught means he hasn’t felt full intensity of grief</p>

<p>Man whose got laid off/journey/inspired by geese
1. what is the purpose of him telling about the February when his life went wrong? (I said illustrate something something?)
2. the geese told him (how to begin his journey?)
3. sign of future success (the geese)
4. he has made a decision
5. embark on a journey
6. the explosion means that he expects more bad things to come?
7.</p>

<p>Almost all those are right, For the Geese one, I dont think it was telling him how to begin his journey, I believe it was about having purpose or something (i forget the wording). For the 1st question in that geese passage, the 1st line was contrary to all his actions or whatever that phrasing was....</p>