<p>Sweet Jesus. Can’t believe I didn’t see the answer choice ‘children’, I put ‘body’. Damn. I’m sure there was no ‘Classical Allusion’. He repeated the word ‘God’ in the final verse.</p>
<p>I read in my Kaplan book that a Classical Allusion was something referring to the Romans and Greeks.</p>
<p>That stinks about body. 
Story of my life on math today (that’s what I get for pulling an all nighter). </p>
<p>If God is repeated in order to emphasize something, what would be the reason? It was something along the lines of God decreeing something, was it not? So if God is decreeing something, could this not possibly be a reference to a classic work such as the Bible?</p>
<p>And if you Google classical allusion, the definition seems to be a bit more broad that just the Romans/Greeks.</p>
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<p>ES: in the sea of life enisled,
With echoing straits between us thrown.
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.
The islands feel the enclasping flow,
And then their endless bounds they know.</p>
<p>But when the moon their hollow lights,
And they are swept by balms of spring,
And in their glens, on starry nights,
The nightingales divinely sing;
And lovely notes, from shore to shore,
Across the sounds and channels pour;</p>
<p>O then a longing like despair
Is to their farthest caverns sent!
For surely once, they feel, we were
Parts of a single continent.
Now round us spreads the watery plain–
O might our marges meet again!</p>
<p>Who order’d that their longing’s fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cool’d?
Who renders vain their deep desire?–
A God, a God their severence ruled;
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumb’d, salt, estranging sea.</p>
<p>I don’t think ‘and’ being mentioned twice really counts as repetition. Didn’t see the god part though… hmm. What did the october 11ers put?</p>
<p>Consensus for October 2011 was “No allusion.”</p>
<p>I definitely think the Kaplan book helped prepare me really well for this test. </p>
<p>As far as the allusion/no allusion argument goes, there was definitely repetition, and God as a “classical allusion” didn’t have as significant of an effect as the repetition in terms poetry structure/scheme and overall meaning.</p>
<p>Can we discuss the ‘Chores’ question, I’m sure that ‘chores’ was not the correct answer. Also, what about the question which had ‘the pretences of a social climbing mother and daughter’?</p>
<p>Chores was never mentioned in the passage, as far as I remember. ^</p>
<p>I know I didn’t say the pretenses of a social climbing mother and daughter. I think the daughter, if anything, was going downwards in her pursuit of being a teacher. Do you remember the other options?</p>
<p>I thought the passage suggested that she would be told off for not doing her chores, I know it wasn’t explicitly stated but i thought it would make sense, but given how the passage described the family I thought it was probably correct.</p>
<p>General rule with the CollegeBoard texts is if you can’t find any explicit evidence to back it up; it’s wrong. (I’ve learned this the hard way, haha). What did you put for your answer, out of curiosity?</p>
<p>Oooo, I can’t remember exactly 
I think it was D.</p>
<p>did anyone find the last poem really ironic? I chuckled to myself because we’re taking SATs on a saturday morning while the poem told us to essentially live while we’re young and have fun. i wonder if the SAT writers did that on purpose…</p>
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“Pretenses of a social climbing mother and daughter” is what I put. I was debating between that and “Arrogance blahblah blahblah.”</p>
<p>^Speaking of ironic, the woman’s disdain of the clergy was ironic?</p>
<p>Yes Water, I did! I actually took this exam in a room alone with just myself and the proctor and I started giggling and the proctor gave me the strangest look. /smh</p>
<p>yeah because she’s accusing the clergy of pettiness while she rips of her assistants and patrons everyway she can</p>
<p>Was she small minded or low spirited?</p>
<p>small minded</p>
<p>What kinda curve are we anticipating?</p>
<p>Oh and what were the options for the chores question? Trying to work out my logic behind choosing a blatantly wrong answer.</p>