Oct. Literature Discussion

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<p>or was the entire passage a political allegory</p>

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<p>I put his reflections were short and indecisive or something like that, since they couldn’t been anything well-thought out because of all the “bumpy” interruptions. I was really confused by that one.</p>

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<p>From Princeton Review:</p>

<p>If you answer all questions and get up to 4 wrong, it’s going to be an 800 (or maybe a little less).</p>

<p>If you answer 58-60 questions, get 6 wrong, it’s going to be between a 750-790.</p>

<p>If you answer 53-55 questions, and get 6 wrong, it’s going to be between a 700-750.</p>

<p>If you answer 49-52 questions, and get 8 wrong, it’s going to be between a 650-690.</p>

<p>If you answer 43-48 questions, and get 8 wrong, it’s going to be between a 600-640.</p>

<p>If you answer 38-42 questions, and get 8 wrong, it’s going to be between a 500-590.</p>

<p>Not the most generous curve of the various Subject Tests, but it’s not that bad either.</p>

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<p>The scale looks about right, but anyone notice that there were 62 questions not 60? Maybe it was just me (but all the passages you guys are talking about I read as well).<br>
Another thing is really bothering me. I finished and doublechecked my answers, but I was rushed on the second to last passage before the marriage=disappointment. Anyone remember what that passage was?</p>

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<p>I know I’m probably wrong, but I thought the senator passage was political (does collegeboard check up on these things? Oh, well, they can only cancel my scores). I don’t remember the date it was written, but from the description of the poor roads, it had to have been before the industrial revolution. Thus, it could have been deriding politicians for being unable to identify with actual westerners, despite high-minded ‘moralizing’. I know it’s not liberal or conservative or based on divisions between party lines, but I’m going to PRETEND it was allegorical.</p>

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<p>btw, is the sat ii lit test harder or are the ap english tests harder?</p>

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<p>This is worth noting actually…that scale was based on there being 61 questions.</p>

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<p>The passage about the senator was from Uncle Tom’s Cabin.</p>

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<p>HAHAHA oops I guess i got that entire section wrong then.</p>

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<p>i’m really confused, because…

  1. the only reason i didn’t put humorous vignette was because i thought a vignette was a type of french poem and that was not a poem
  2. uncle tom’s cabin was definitely political…
    which one is it?..well, i guess it could be that the passage itself was just a vignette but the book as a whole is a political commentary…
    btw, how do you guys find this stuff, i.e. “from uncle tom’s cabin”</p>
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<p>I found the entire literature test exceedingly easy…especially the tripe on Flannery O’Connor. Unfortunately, I’ll probably end up having to cancel my score because of an awful performance on the French reading test. I felt like a priest at a baudy house (de trop! de trop!).</p>

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<p>it is from Uncle Tom’s Cabin:</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.gradesaver.com/etext/titles/uncletom/section9.html[/url]”>http://www.gradesaver.com/etext/titles/uncletom/section9.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The fact that it’s from a political work signifies nothing. Many great “serious” writings have whimsical elements to them. Whimsy can still be scathing (Measure for Measure anyone?). A vilanelle is a French poem a vignette is just an airy and fun representation. The passage (specifically the passage) seems consistent with that answer. Collegeboard doesn’t assume any foundation on specific works of literature.</p>

<p>*S<em>S</em> This is the most hateful pun ever devised. Confound Mr. Burgess!</p>

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<p>but if it’s just lighthearted, why did collegeboard bother to put…

  1. the line of dialogue from an African-American person…sry, not that grammatically incorrect language is african-american…
  2. the final paragraph, specifically referenced in another question, that is decidedly ripping on the politician</p>

<p>*S_S=?</p>

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<p>Who would have thought!
Byt he way, I remember one of the Q’s being “which of the words in the last paragraph are not used for an ironic purpose” or something like that?</p>

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<p>right. The passage was humorous (and that’s what I answered), but it’s obviously a political message about how Senators dont know anything about life out west.</p>

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<p>for the ironic q, i chose “pulling down”. That wans’t very ironic</p>

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<p>Yeah, I should have mentioned that I did say it was a humorous vignette, anyway. The passage did seem like it was intended to be comical.</p>

<p>What did people say was the main idea of the speech about adultery “as a whole”? I was torn between satire against marriage and justification for wives to act as husbands do, but ultimately I decided that the “Well, they do it, too!” argument used by the speaker didn’t mean that she thought that it was acceptable.</p>

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<p>I said it was justification for wives to act as husbands do because she pointed out several similarities between husbands and wives. Also, it didn’t seem to me that she was against marriage, just that she was against male-dominated marriages.</p>

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<p>justification, definitely. she was basically…adultery=yay for women…and marriage as an institution was not being satirized…only us guys (unless you’re a girl, in which case, yay adultery)</p>

<p>i really hope CB doesn’t cancel my grade because i’m starting to think i might have done alright.</p>

<p>how many passages were there?</p>