Official September 2013 ACT English Thread

<p>I didn’t put horrified. They said positive, free-spirited and “horrified” isn’t really a good way to express these positive feelings.</p>

<p>They said relate it back to the beginning, so I chose the one saying something about how Percy Shelley’s will never be as good or something like that. It’s positive, “free-spirited” and relates back to the beg.</p>

<p>Johnkim is correct. ^</p>

<p>pretty sure its horrified because it was joking how she wanted it to be scary and that how people interpret it nowadays would “horrify” her.</p>

<p>Nope. It specifically asked for a phrase that was positive and lighthearted. There is no connotation horrified can be put in that is even remotely positive and lighthearted.</p>

<p>That’s why it was in quotes. It was like a joke.</p>

<p>I didn’t put the one that referenced the other guy or “No change.” The one about the guy sounded awkward and the “No change” resulted in a sentence that wasn’t light-hearted. There was another decent answer and that’s what I chose. </p>

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<p>Well if it was in quotes I’m boned… THERE IS NO HUMOR IN STANDARDIZED TESTING. :^(</p>

<p>Yes, the horrified was in quotes - they tried to end it in a humorous way.</p>

<p>I thought it was writing a horror story brought out the best in shelley</p>

<p>Does anyone remember that question about that sentence where The woman voted for Lincoln…my answer was such as but i don’t remember the question</p>

<p>What did you guys get for the one vocabulary question? It asked to choose the best word that would fit. I forgot the words, does anybody remember them?</p>

<p>it did not ask for lighthearted way of ending, but rather a “light” tone…the humor with the quotes seemed right!</p>

<p>Oh sill yup one choice was reiterate, the other was develop. I think i may have put reiterate.</p>

<p>The Frankenstein one isn’t " horrified". That’s not a light tone and doesn’t serve any relation to the 1st paragraph. I put horror stories brought out the best in her (remember the bet at the beginning ?)</p>

<p>I thought the question about the bat dude was something like this: given the content of the story, which title or phrase is most accurate ( last question, right?)I guess I misread it. Anyway, the answer should have been friend. Even though he wasn’t a superhero, the contention was made by others that he was. Friend wasn’t even remotely discussed</p>

<p>Or the story said he could have been potted as a superhero</p>

<p>i kept it as develop wouldn’t using reiterate change the meaning of the sentence?</p>

<p>I agree with friend. and i really think it was horrified. I mean it was in quotes… clearly they were kidding. the whole point of the essay was that the girl thought that it was something completely different until she actually read it. so the whoever wrote it would have been horrified about everyone having a different idea of what the story actually was.</p>

<p>i think he was trying to reiterate that using those math games would help you learn it better.</p>

<p>It was develop. He was developing their math skills…I think quotations was around horrified because they were talking about the horror drama. It was somewhat witty, but I don’t think they were being sarcastic</p>