<p>I prepared for this using the Barron's book and compared to its practice questions, I felt the test itself was a lot easier. It was nice how none of the passages were ridiculously long as in SAT Critical Reading but at the same time, the test confirmed what my teacher said: "I think that if you are to be good at literature, you have to be a good psychologist."</p>
<p>How do you guys think you guys did? Let's discuss </p>
<p>the mountain poem killed me</p>
<p>mountain poem? you mean the Robert Frost farm one?</p>
<p>the mountain poem…you mean the one about the naive young poet who wants to go into hiding, or the one about the greek god who pushed rocks up a mountain over and over? Did you guys think that the imagery of the dude pushing a rock up a hill for eternity represented: He works hard but ultimately his labor is for nothing?</p>
<p>Yeah. I got that! The poem about the farm was kind of hard for me :/… Were most of the answers about sentiment, introspection, and things of that sort (like along that theme). Was the author talking about the burning house? Does the first stanza describe an original place, or exaggerate its uniqueness?</p>
<p>For the last passage, how would the man characterize his situation? the woman? the narrator is best described as one who is…? and was one of the answers that they realized they needed decided to break the marriage?</p>
<p>for the man and woman, I put despair for both…those “what do those characters feel” questions never make much sense any ways. It seems to test how well you can infer and imply rather than derive your answer directly supported by the passage.</p>
<p>But at the same time for the male one the self-pity could easily also be an answer, I think. Like how do you tell the difference between self pity and despair within such a short passage? o.0</p>
<p>Regarding the “break the marriage” one I put that “she saw that her dream of a happy marriage/ marriage happiness was shattered”… or something similar along those lines.</p>
<p>Regarding the burning house poem I thought the author was talking about the natural life cycle and how you need to know a lot about nature… like the houses are burned down but the animals and the woods nearby still thrive.</p>
<p>Not sure about the 1st stanza question :(, do you remember any of the answer choices for that one? I think there was a answer choice about the nature cycle/life cycle/something similar to that</p>
<p>@Green1997 i put that it meant original … not sure tho</p>
<p>Characterize the father in the first passage (the girl who hates her dad). Hipocrisy?</p>
<p>Attitude of woman, - despair?</p>
<p>Attitude of man,- self pity?</p>
<p>what does “both realized they were in the same situation–prevent…” mean? that they realized they needed to break the marriage or that they unwittingly revealed disappointing traits? i put the former. note to jarjar: the answer you gave me is the answer to a different question. i got the same answer though. </p>
<p>describe the Narrator in the last passage about marriage? I was dying when i got to that question. i felt like 3 choices could work. 1) uncertainty, hesistation 2)naive…? </p>
<p>The man in the marriage “perused” the paper. What does this suggest? 1) he pretended to read his paper, or 2) he read it thoroughly to avoid something</p>
<p>Unfeeling vs powerful (drama) “even the most strongest of hearts could not bear…” Strongest most likely means powerful, right? It sounds kinda weird when plugged in… but I think it was the best choice?</p>
<p>what is the author describing in the first two stanzas? I put something about fire… I was stuck between an old, demolished house or a house that was on fire…
THE HOUSE had gone to bring again<br>
To the midnight sky a sunset glow.<br>
Now the chimney was all of the house that stood,<br>
Like a pistil after the petals go. </p>
<p>The barn opposed across the way,<br>
That would have joined the house in flame<br>
Had it been the will of the wind, was left<br>
To bear forsaken the place’s name.</p>
<p>Birds and humans (the comparison)- Birds are just as capable of feeling sadness/loneliness as humans are, or that birds’ sadnesses are short-lived? “At broken windows flew out and in,<br>
Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh<br>
From too much dwelling on what has been.”</p>
<p>What is described as being “versed” in the title of the poem: The Need of Being Versed In Country Things. I put some answer choice about feelings+sentiment</p>
<p>What does “Versed” Suggest in the last stanza?
“For them there was really nothing sad.
But though they rejoiced in the nest they kept,
One had to be versed in country things<br>
Not to believe the phoebes wept.”</p>
<p>The author uses “senator,man,woman” several times in the passage to… 1) show their bond or 2)Comically objectify them?</p>
<p>What is the duchess suggesting here? Her value, wealth, strength?
What is’t distracts you? This is flesh, and blood, sir,
‘Tis not the figure cut in alabaster
Kneels at my husband’s tomb. Awake, awake, man!</p>
<p>these are all the questions i had trouble with. if you guys can remember, please tell me!! i hate being paranoid </p>
<p>@Green1997, I thought he was 'reading" the paper because in reality he wasnt actually reading it. In the passage, it said something along the lines of “…AS IF he was perusing the letter.” He seemed to be thinking more about their marriage than anything else.</p>
<p>Versed, I thought that meant “being knowledgeable / being well educated in”</p>
<p>I thought the Duchess compared herself to alabaster because she was telling the guy that she was not some sort of special, grand entity…like a “figure cut in alabaster,” she seemed to be emphasizing she was human just like him, beyond everything else.</p>
<p>I thought the senator and the two other people were being comedically objectified.</p>
<p>Regarding the birds, I put that their sadness is short lived since unlike the houses, their habitats quickly regrow.</p>
<p>@Jarjarbinks23 Anyway to know if it was the bond between the senator, or if it was being comedically objectified??</p>
<p>i put comically objectified</p>
<p>@ameripen I thought it was comedically objectified because the passage basically describes them being flung all over the place like ragdolls…I mean if you think about it, didnt the descriptions makes you smile? It all seemed so ridiculous! </p>
<p>The passage didnt seem to suggest any sort of close bond… I guess you could say the fact that they were so smushed together during the ride implies they were close, but idk, I think thats thinking way too deeply.</p>
<p>If they truly had a bond, the author would have mentioned some sort of emotional tie or emotional closeness between them…all he said of them was that they were in an unpleasant road trip together.</p>
<p>How much do you guys think the study book helps you?</p>
<p>@Green1997 It was “infirmity,” not “hypocrisy.” The mother, not the dad, was characterized by hypocrisy. The father was characterized by his illness, or infirmity.</p>
<p>Also, for the man who was reading the paper, he was pretending to read it when he was really thinking about the marriage.</p>
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<p>There were 60 questions on the test, right? Just making sure, since I missed an entire page on a Calc III test once. </p>
<p>Also, for the question about the passage where the girl was reflecting on her reasons for leaving home, including her parents, what was the most commonly used technique in the passage?
The answers were:<br>
a. Metaphor
b. Allegory (I think?)
c. Repetition
d. Allusion</p>
<p>I picked c. Repetition, but I was a little worried about timing so I didn’t read it closely for any hidden metaphors or anything… What did you guys put?</p>
<p>Yeah… I didn’t know what infirmity meant. I knew hypocrisy was wrong. I picked repitition as well 
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<p>“ambition, madame, is a great man’s madness.” is this an example of personification? I really wasn’t sure about this one. </p>
<p>@Mathemusician112 </p>
<p>I also put infirmity.</p>
<p>As for the man reading the paper, I remember not picking that answer, although I was caught between that one and another one.
For the marriage, I remember picking despair for the mother and self pity for the other.</p>
<p>I also picked repetition because the author repeated the same structure one after the other 6 times. EG: my father build the house with his own hands. My father built this chair with own hands. My father built that spoon (?) with his own hands. My mother knitted whatever with her own hands… you get the picture. </p>
<p>Did any one get the last question,
it was about what the how the author wrote the marriage section
I remember being stuck between something and cold calculation (B) and something and detached intelligence©. I picked C. </p>
<p>For the other questions discussed,
I remember comically objectified.
Well versed = knowledge on the topic
Birds sadness short lived</p>
<p>Speaking of SAT 2 Lit, we should have more posters here. After all, the SAT 2 Lit is one of the most widely (if not THE most widely) taken subject test…</p>
<p>i think M2, USH, BIO E and M combined and sometimes Chem and M1 are taken by more test takers, but yes, this should have more posts.</p>
<p>I don’t understand how I can ponder and analyze text and questions yet moments after the test forget almost everything I just did. It’s hard to recall some questions beyond the ones that standout . </p>
<p>Oh just remembered one,
It was referring to one of the poetry texts,</p>
<p>it asked what kind of structure the poetry used
A) Free Verse
B Blank Verse
C) Heroic Couplet
D) Sonnet?
E)??</p>
<p>I put C, although I don’t know any literary terms, it just sounded right.</p>
<p>@Lipp7260 I put C too. It seems as though I got a lot of the farm passage questions wrong… ugh. I hope I aced the other passages/poems… I really dont want to retake </p>
<p>yo</p>