<p>Yeah, like hunger pangs.</p>
<p>Harsh curve or generous? OR easy test/hard test?</p>
<p>I don't know much about curves but I think it was just a bit on the hard side, because most of the passages were moderate, but there were a couple hard ones, and maybe 1 easy passage.</p>
<p>For me the hard ones were the Zora, the Pyg, and the first one.</p>
<p>750-780. HOPEFULLY 800. But I'd be surprised...</p>
<p>I already know I got like two wrong, and who knows what other stupid mistakes I made.</p>
<p>But I thought today's test was so much easier than the ones in Barrons and Kaplan. And I finished with like seven minutes to spare so that was good. The passages were really interesting too, I liked all of them except for the Train one. Urgh that one took me like ten minutes.</p>
<p>I LOVED the train passage. I too finished early, which never happened in the practice tests, and that actually makes me think that I went too fast and probably got some wrong that I should have gotten right.</p>
<p>What did you think about Kaplan's specifically. I thought it was really easy.</p>
<p>if you can cast your minds back to the "Lillie" poem... what was the answer to the thing which had choices "iambic tetrameter" "iambic trimater" etc?</p>
<p>Also, there was a roman numeral question about the effect of the poem from "Lillie" onwards, (metric diversity, etc) Was that I, II , III?</p>
<p>GlueEater, really? I thought today's test was easier than the Kaplan ones. But Kaplan fluctuated for me, I'd get 700 on some and then 750 on others.</p>
<p>And peachjelly, I cant specifically remember my answer to your first question, but it was not one of the choices with the word 'iambic' in them.</p>
<p>Kaplan seems to use a limited number of terms. I swear to god 'antithesis' is on EVERY kaplan test, and I think kaplan poetry is too easy. I had a pretty big range on kaplans too, from high 700s to mid-high 600s.</p>
<p>Yeah i can't remember my answer eitther, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't any with iambic in it, because when I read the first 3 choices i thoguht to myself 'gee I'm scrrewed with tihs question', until I got to choice D or E and found one that I knew and that fit very well with the question. If you remember the choices I can tell you what I chose.</p>
<p>I don't remember that roman numeral one.</p>
<p>I put "blank verse" for the metrical device not used. </p>
<p>What did you guys think about the significance of the rain in the jazz passage? I thought it reflected the narrator's despondent feelings. Forgot the corresponding answer choice.</p>
<p>I think I might have put blank verse? But didn't the lilie one have a rhyme scheme? Unless it was which one WASN"T used.</p>
<p>For the rain, I remember putting how it made it seem outside of him, but then changing my mind. I either changed it to the despondent feeling one, or how it made everythin seem constant or something like that.</p>
<p>It was indeed blank verse - there was rhyming, so you're right...</p>
<p>About the rain, I put foreshadowing..I don't think he was despondent, since he did not know what would happen then...but it foreshadowed what WOULD happen IMO..</p>
<p>also, if there are two similar answers, then neither can be the one, right? and the way you describe it, reflecting the narrator's despondence and making it seem as if his inner world was represented by the outside, both are pathetic fallacy, so since they're almost identical, they can't be the ones?? (my trail of thought)</p>
<p>form what i remember there was like iambic tri, pentameter and whatever, but i ended up choosing blank verse as my answer. i think blank verse was E right?</p>
<p>uhm..how come i cant remember doing any passages about music or rain?</p>
<p>did i skip anything? i just remember doing up to 50. i hope there wasnt a secret section or something</p>
<p>The passage was about a boy named Kid something (Kid Jones?) who had just been dumped by a girl, and then it rained and the music that played at his school reminded him of her.</p>
<p>hmm is it possible, but i never had that passage. i am 100% sure i did not run across it. and there are 50 questions on the test right? so is it possible that i did not get the passage for some reason?</p>
<p>impanicking now...did anyone who took the test not do a rain/music passage as well? please say yes!</p>
<p>I think everyone did, sorry guy. There are 60 questions.</p>
<p>Is any of the answers 'to emphasize the piano player"?</p>
<p>there was a rain/music passage......very sorry...always at least 60 questions
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i think you accidentally skipped it :(</p>
<p>I just died inside for flam253.</p>
<p>I've also heard some horror stories about using the wrong type of pencil accidentally, and getting a zero.</p>
<p>I felt pretty good after leaving the testing center, but now I'm imagining all the crazy things that could have gone wrong.</p>
<p>omg flam253 just skipped an entire passage! ****kkk.
for that iambic tri, tetra and penta thing, it was definitely not the iambics, cos the poem included all three diff types and the other choice was couplets...so i chose blank verse...</p>
<p>I also chose allusion for the other qs...the pang thing yea...</p>
<p>i think i did o..k.....
it's just that logge part. ppl said it's old ppl. i chose it at first...but then when i read the whole poem and stuff...it just seemed about nature...so i put tree limb..lol so i know i got 1 wrong definitely....</p>
<p>what did ppl put for that question "who is the poem for?" (the oak and lilly one) and the choices were like old people to not be scared of death, and young people to enjoy life etc....i put the young ppl but now since ppl mention the logge is old ppl, i could be wrong and it could be old ppl to not be scared of death..</p>
<p>there was also this other question..."what does the word rarely mean" and the choices were like "merely" and "barely"...and i had trouble choosing between those two</p>
<p>yea i chose to emphasize the piano player....</p>
<p>I think the poem was about the brevity of life...the lilly's life span which is tiny is compared to the oak, which in spite of its seemingly long life will eventually die as a log (corpse to me)...</p>
<p>"In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures life may perfect be."</p>
<p>the final couplet which sums up the point of the entire poem (again IMO) refers to the brevity of life and how we should live it to the fullest, whether we are an oak or a lily, whether we are to live for years on end (oak) or just a few months (lily). </p>
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