***November 2013 - Literature***

wewillwin
Mon, 04 Nov 2013 00:18:17 +0000

Guys,
This is a list of answers that I found on a June 2012 test thread. It has around 46 answers, please do add any more that you can to this list and please re post it. I’ve put alternative answers for a few questions whose answers aren’t clear!

deceitful
malapropism or sarcastic asides (NOT SURE)
reader and narrator find it funny
pike is not Joseph
arousal/love
writer’s sympathies
insulted and mocked
epic simile
lose some qualities, gain others
tough and calloused (narrator’s opinion or something)
gain some insight
impertinent challenge
Yolanda ceased to write so she quit
restricts mother’s role
mother’s advice is simplistic and unhelpful
Yolanda wants to keep her two lives separate
theme: finding identity
Yolanda’s mother doesn’t know her very well OR that Yolanda has to be made different from the other daughters
communicative and uncommunicative (this I’m not 100% on…)
The farmer saw it as an impediment to his work
exuberant acceptance
communicative vs uncommunicative
supernatural and imperfect
sunbeam OR cicadas
success in poetry
awe
laborious pace of construction
“age” contrasting speed of snow at work
numbers : people OR rhyme
mystery of music
snow is powerful/irresistible
death of the poet
parallel structure
color and movement
make world magical (writer and snow)
world fainted
height and stature
unpolished
wind is not malevolent (mm…maybe)
invite reader to see the storm (are we sure this is right?)
greed (???) OR vanity
Vision…vision are there for the author to express his views on the process of music or the creation of it…something like that
fruit = poetry
close observation to fanciful interpretation
as if it has not been here