<p>I can't remember any questions, but I bet some of you can!</p>
<p>Oh great, I knew this would happen. Haha. I'll just delete my thread and merge my old post into this one.</p>
<p>sooooorry, I guess I beat you to it. Just as a general observation, I didn't like all the modern stuff. I'm better with the 1700's stuff just because its so much more direct. The piano poem tripped me up a bit, as did the passage about that Indian woman</p>
<p>Not a problem. Reproduced below is the content of my own SATII Literature thread that I have no clue how to delete:</p>
<p>I have tons of questions.</p>
<p>...But first, let's see if I can remember and list all of the reading passages - this may help to jog everyone's memory. Let's see if we can create a "question-and-answer database" of sorts.</p>
<p>-Long term/short term beauty (?) poem
-Combat soldier reflections/piano performance passage
-African-American woman in Harlem passage
-Monotony of the life of the London working class passage
-Woman encouraged by her husband to break with tradition and regard herself as equally esteemed as the males of her culture</p>
<p>...I'm sure I'll think of more soon enough (or perhaps others can contribute).</p>
<p>Okay, regarding the long term/short term beauty poem. What did the "logge" represent? I answered that it represented the aging and death of an elderly man or woman. Who would be best advised by this poem's theme? My response indicated that a young person - being encouraged to savor his earlier years while they last - would be most appropriately advised.</p>
<p>Regarding the combat soldier reflections passage, to what does the term "thawed" refer? I answered that it referred to the music bringing tears to the speaker's eyes.</p>
<p>Regarding the African-American woman in Harlem passage, what did the speaker's general outlook appear to be? I answered that she seemed to shift between periods of joy and d...d....some sort of word beginning with "d" that, if I'm not mistaken, indicated shame for her society. Or something like that. Or not.</p>
<p>I remember a poem in which a corresponding question asked in which lines the main verb was implied; I answered lines 7-8, although I am highly unsure of the validity of my answer.</p>
<p>I'm sure I'll think of more questions, answers, passages, etc. soon enough...</p>
<p>i saisd logge was elderly man, someone coping with an early death of a friend, thawed cause it brough tears, i said it was the weird one that went from something to pensive beacsue she wasn't malancholy at the end i dont think, i left the main verb blank cause i had NO clue</p>
<p>i thought that the logge question was just what it refered to, not what it represented? thus i put that it was referring to the limbs of ageing trees.</p>
<p>i chose the same answer for thawed, but i think i chose the e one-->pensive for the harlem passage</p>
<p>i chose 7-8 for implied verb as well</p>
<p>i thnk pensive as a, but we still got the same answer so no big deal. the logge one asked what it represent metaphorically</p>
<p>The logge question pertained specifically to what was metaphorically represented -- the tree limb response indicates what was literally represented. I think we are discussing two different questions for the Harlem passage...I remember answering ebullient (I think that was the word) --> pensive for one of them.</p>
<p>EDIT: Haha, david was too quick on the draw again.</p>
<p>did anyone else completely bomb it? I think I did.</p>
<p>agh dmnit...i can't believe i didn't read the question right! that'll be the bane of me. i thought the test was really easy, and i finished with a lot of time left over, but i probably made so many stupid mstakes... :(</p>
<p>It is definitely ebuillietn to pensive. She goes from being bubbly and amusing to asking a lot of deep questions.</p>
<p>Could somebody please explain to me the passage about the statue and the artistst? I was really confused by that passage.</p>
<p>hahaha, yea ebullient was the pesnsive one</p>
<p>Just thought of another passage, and another question.</p>
<p>-Greek mythology/living sculpture poem</p>
<p>In the above poem, what was the intended meaning of the last one or two lines of the first stanza (which discussed "demon blood" and laying the statue...on the bed...or something to that effect)? I put that the sculptor was partaking sexually in the supernatural powers of the statue. Well, it was worded similiarly...perhaps my syntax and meaning are a little off. I know it seems like an extreme answer, but hey, what else could be implied by the "laying to bed" of the statue?</p>
<p>atomicfusion -- I wish that I had some remote idea of how well I did. Don't be too concerned; if I'm not mistaken, you can still miss a significant portion of the questions and still earn a respectable (700+) score. (Well, let's hope so, anyway...)</p>
<p>im having trouble remembering what i put, but i didnt put that. that looks like it coul dbe right though</p>
<p>Jps36,</p>
<p>That is a poem paying homage to Greek mythology if I am not mistaken (see my previous post). It discusses a sculptor's creation of a female statue that comes to life; according to my interpretation, the sculptor became envious and spiteful of the statue because, rather than providing him with the ego boost and additional respect he desired, the statue became more widely recognized, praised and heralded than he.</p>
<p>yea, definitely, but thaht was in a later question wasnt it?</p>
<p>The creator definitley hit the statue eagerly, but i thought the answer to the question was she willingly allowed him to have sex with her.</p>
<p>...Yes, I think so.</p>
<p>The name of the characters in the Greek mythology poem were Pygmalion - the sculptor - and Galatea, the "living statue." According to Greek mythology (courtesy of Google), Pygmalion kissed the statue of Galatea on the lips and it came to life; the two subsequently married.</p>
<p>Jps36, that was probably the answer that I put. It was the only answer with the words "sexually partake" or anything of the sort in it...good. I'm beginning to feel more assured of my performance on this test.</p>
<p>In the London passage, there was a question stating that: Given the reader's tone, implications and imagery in lines 2-11, what could serve as the purpose of lines 13-18 (I believe those are the correct line numbers)? It may have been the last question on the test. I was debating between responding that lines 13-18 were satirical or that they served as an attack upon local social values. My initial response was the latter; at the last minute, though, I changed it to the former because it did not seem an outright attack to me and because the tone of the speaker seemed more mocking of local social values than sharply critical of them.</p>