Official Nov. Literature Test Thread

<p>i thought the first half was incredibly easy, while the second half i couldn't get anything :o</p>

<p>I thought the whole thing went better than I thought it would, especially since I didn't study. I know we can't really discuss questions now, but I think I know what you're saying about the second half. It was really this one part of the second half that I absolutely hated!</p>

<p>not a bad lit test; anxious to discuss though</p>

<p>Second half of the text destroyed me -- especially the next to last passage.</p>

<p>Hm....I believe that next to last passage was the killer for me too.</p>

<p>is that the poem about the.. "woman"?</p>

<p>i thought it was hard...........</p>

<p>It went the other way around for me, I thought the first half of the test was tough but I really enjoyed the second half (except for the iron horse/train passage, that one completely destroyed me)</p>

<p>are you kidding....the iron horse/train one was the easiest for me. i thought the poems in the beginning were tough</p>

<p>^I completely messed up on that passage. The first poem was tough. Other than that, the other passages were ok, there were some strange questions of course for each passage, but nothing too drastic, at least not as bad as the October test.</p>

<p>i think the one about galat__ and the one about the woman destroyed me.. while the last passage was alright but not that simple either. so in reality, questions 34-50 or so i basically guessed most of them</p>

<p>is it me or was there no play?</p>

<p>it's hard to be 100% on any question on the Lit sat</p>

<p>I thought it was ok - the Pygmalion one, I got it all right....the last one I am kinda not wholly sure about my answers</p>

<p>there was no play, which is usually the easiest :/</p>

<p>i hated the iron horse one</p>

<p>I hated the "Lillie" poem, and the iron horse was just too abstract</p>

<p>^I second that, I found them to be the two toughest passages.
Galatea & Pygmalion went alright for me, so did the last passage (which I really enjoyed reading). The first passage was easy but some of the questions I thought were a bit too vague, same applies for the third poem we had (the woman who's longing for her lover).</p>

<p>I rushed the music one because I ran out of time. everything else was good.</p>

<p>Iron horse was awful. Everything else was decent. Still, it owned me.</p>

<p>Some questions...
Who would have found woman amusing? Narrator, woman herself, martyr, reader
What principle was it attacking--vanity?
"OH, Charles/what's his face" = ardent passion?
All of the following except... self-denial/self-____?
Extended metaphor for iron horse = horse? (not sun, right?)
View of iron horse=2nd paragraph builds off "tenor" of 1st para
Zora: what was summary of her view--was it "defying categories and relying on individuality' (something like that...choice A) or "supportive view of self while realizing an invisible force was analyzing her" (choice E, i think)
Epic simile?
All of the following except...blank verse?
Non-conventional sonnet?</p>