<p>Effulgent, two of the answer choices to that question included, if I'm not mistaken, passion/lust/desire or bitter resentment. I chose bitter resentment, which seems most appropriate given the passage's implication that Mrs. Slipslop is preparing to "lay her violent amorous Hands on the poor Joseph." Shizzle.</p>
<p>i thought it wasnt out of bitter resentment, but rather a burst of passion. "amorous" is the key word, glad i take spanish (amor)</p>
<p>Great, now I've missed at least two...perhaps three...hmm.</p>
<p>hey man, if you only miss 3, youre getting an 800</p>
<p>WHY IS THE LITERATURE CURVE SO HARSH!</p>
<p>it was DEFINITELY a tougher test than math iic and history, yet its got the toughest curve of the three. grrrr.</p>
<p>amen grateful. but they do curve it according to how everyone does, so maybe that will compensate</p>
<p>I put bitter resentment. she seemed more angry than lu****l to me. C'mon one word of "amorous" against 2 paragraphs of crazy screaming. then again "passion" doesnt necessarily have to mean lust.</p>
<p>Was the the little passage of description an "epic simile" or "pathetic fallacy"?</p>
<p>EPIC SIMILE: A formal and sustained simile (see under Tropes). Like a regular simile, an epic simile makes a comparison between one object and another using "like" or "as." However, unlike a regular simile, which appears in a single sentence, the epic simile appears in the genre of the epic and it may be developed at great length, often up to fifty or a hundred lines. Examples include Homer's comparison between Odysseus clinging to the rocks and an octopus with pebbles stuck in its tentacles, or Virgil's comparison between the city of Carthage and a bee-hive. For an example of a Homeric epic simile from The Odyssey, click here. See epic, above.</p>
<p>Pathetic Fallacy
A fallacy of reason in suggesting that nonhuman phenomena act from human feelings, as suggested by the word "pathetic" from the Greek pathos; a literary device wherein something nonhuman found in nature-a beast, plant, stream, natural force, etc.-performs as though from human feeling or motivation. In Jack London's To Build a Fire, "The cold of space," London writes, "smote the unprotected tip of the planet, . . ." The word "smote" suggests nature deliberately striking the northern tip of the earth with severe cold.
The poetry of William Wordsworth is replete with instances of pathetic fallacy-weeping streams, etc.
Suggested by Richard Battin, Managing Editor - The News-Sentinel - Fort Wayne, Indiana. Definition agonized over by Sam McClintic and Tom Campbell, Bell High School.</p>
<p>I put epic simile.</p>
<p>On the london passage regarding which audience its directed at or talking about was it working class or puritanical middle class? I know it said something about spent toilers so at first i put working class but i reread the passage its definitely religious (church bells, "enlightened strictness", separating the seventh day (sunday) from the other six)</p>
<p>but..im still not sure</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Epic simile (due to usage of "as"...I remember covering this specifically in my English class this past semester in a poem titled "Nature" that I may dig up later)</p></li>
<li><p>Working class...would love to explain but my dad is going to use the computer <em>shrug</em></p></li>
</ol>
<p>Who was supposed to find Ms. Slipshod (?) amusing?</p>
<p>What does "just" mean in describing the lily?</p>
<p>I wrote just meant "true" and I wrote that the narrator and reader was supposed to find Ms. Slipshod amusing</p>
<p>"..they do curve it according to how everyone does, so maybe that will compensate"</p>
<p>They don't predetermine the curve like SATI? That would be good. I thought it was a lot harder than the 22 Reals.</p>
<p>why is this thread so pathetic? </p>
<p>damn everyone else who is too scared (or too smart) to take the sat ii lit test :-/</p>
<p>i wish we had an awesome list of all the answers like the ap us history thread!!</p>
<p>I reread and reread and reread and reread that passage with the debatedly "lusty" woman. Multiple times. And it took me forever, but I came to the conclusion that the answer to the question was lusty, but SHE wasn't. The question said "she was all of these but EXCEPT one:" and that was lusty. She never expressed any hints of emotions to the man except for hatred, no matter what he said or did. He tried explaining to her that indeed cared for her, but she didn't get it and instead was about explode, and that's when the doorbell rang. That's why the answer to one of the questions was the doorbell ringing put subtle optimism in the story. or something like that. (I don't remember the exact wording of the q's)</p>
<p>In the Pygmalion question that mentioned sex as one of the answer choices, I had that as my answer because in the passage the creator of the statue was referred to as "being allowed to partake in the demonic blood".</p>
<p>I said that the word "fortunately" was used in reference to the doorbell ringing in order to reveal where the narrator's sympathies lay.</p>
<p>Sympathies for forunately too.</p>
<p>what about the main verb question? i put D or E, i can't remember</p>
<p>it was somewhere in the middle of the passage (lines7-8, i think)</p>