Hi guys! I just did the sat II lit test and I thought it was pretty hard overall.
What did u guys think? Poem about 'sleep"
The first poem was absolutely inscrutable. I couldn’t even tell if it was talking about winter turning into spring or spring turning into winter. Other than that I am pretty optimistic.
I thought it was pretty hard but i think i scored 700+
Does anyone remember questions to do with the winter/spring poem?
Or questions overall.
and what about the shakespeare one with guildenstern and the player
the question about: What was the player’s attitude towards a good play. Options: choosing the appropriate people for major roles or through thorough practice.
There was a question about the tone of the sleep poem, and I believe the answer was “supplicatory.” I put effusive though, b/c I didn’t know what supplicatory meant.
@Lolalovelu I believe the answer to the question you’re referencing was something along the lines of “play on the audience’s expectations” Basically, his point was that the audience expects melodramatic deaths when they go to see a play, so a good play would meet those expectations. He even says that when they actually hanged someone on stage, the audience booed them because it wasn’t dramatic enough.
Any other questions ppl remember from the winter/spring poem?
Hey, what did u put for what was the player’s opinion toward gildenstern?
And for the passage with the wife and her physician husband, did u pick all 3 choices for what describes the house(1. Famous for beauty of architecture 2. Evocative of mystery and romance 3. ( I don’t remember)
@crisstall I said that he probably thought Gildenstern was extremely “earnest” because he kept fighting back and continuing the debate even after the player provided evidence contrary to Gildenstern’s assertions.
I put only Evocative of mystery and romance, and “old, inexpensive, large” or something like that. There was nothing about beauty in the passage, and if the place was famous it would probably have been bought, so I didn’t think that one was correct.
How do you guys think the scoring will be? I got the effusive/supplicatory question wrong, as well as the earnest one. I think I can score about a 750, but that’s lower than what I wanted.
I quite liked the sleep poem but the first one was probably the worst. Did you guys say “philosophically resigned” for the tone and what did you say about the tobacco plant being used?
I also put “heroic couplet” for one of the answers without knowing what it was exactly.
@loease i put philosophical for tone and heroic couplet too. the scoring should be lenient, i think
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18556703#Comment_18556703 same test as june 2015.
What did u guys put for the tone of the speaker in the to sleep poem. Was it impatient?
and what did u put for the question to do with: The tobacco leaves
don’t mind being removed
to the long racks—all uses are astounding"
-like astounding as in wonder? or astounding as in something else…?
I think I put something along the lines of “the tobacco leaves are appreciative to be of ANY use” because the entire essence of the poem was that we must learn to not always be dissatisfied with what we have.
Also, did anyone get a LOT of E’s, especially towards the beginning and end?
@Dartmouth_21 @loease Yup yup. I got philosophical and heroic couplet as well.
What did you put for the one that asks what the author in the stream-of-consciousness piece used to show his/her personality? I put 2 of the 3, and I specifically remember not choosing “comments she made to her little brother” because she makes 0 comments TO him in the piece, she just describes him. I may be taking it too literally, though.
I kinda forget what I said about the tobacco plant, but I think I put the answer that said something like “unglamorous parts of life”