** December 2014 (January 2015/June 2014)
*** Unlike the SAT I, SAT II exams are all the same the world over and are consistently recycled, with the exact same literature exam being used three times in less than 2 years!
**** This ain’t a brain drain Realist. This is the reason you’re stunned that a Korean or Chinese student with an SAT score of 2400 or an SAT II Lit score of 800 can’t even speak a single lick of English once they enter college! LOL!!!
Chinese Passage
gift indicating a positive change in attitude
disliked the sound of the wind chimes
potentially valuable object
indirect speech
amazement at a particular type of perception
symbol
affectionately teasing
appreciates a particular feature of Chinese culture
analysis of the narrator’s fascination with his Chinese heritage
Lillie of a Day Poem
a corpse
I, II, and III
fitting and true
They make explicit the meaning of the preceding eight lines
blank verse
These lines of poetry are themselves an instance of beauty in compact form
Consoling someone on the untimely death of a friend
onomatopoeia
Cynthia and Molly Passage
character analysis
friendly but guarded
power Cynthia has over Molly is not unusual
elaborate upon an earlier description
The most lasting love may be one that is not based on specific attributes of the beloved
changeable and inconstant
has a trusting temperament
regarded her beauty as an obvious and unremarkable fact
anecdotes about Cynthia’s behavior as a schoolgirl
qualified appreciation
Come Back to Me Poem
mixture of hopeful yearning and anticipated melancholy
the joy of the reunion with her lover will last only briefly
does not do anything without thinking of her lover’s next visit
omitting key words
attempt to justify the logic of her sentiments
reveal a paradoxical aspect of that emotion
alliteration
alternately fades and increases between her lover’s visits
allusions to mythological lovers
Coxcomb Poem
satiric comedy written by a woman
antithesis
combination of attack and implied self-congratulation
fine things
are more chaste than men
make you characters in a play
coxcomb
heroic couplet
berating men who are contemptuous of women writers
Frederick Douglas
exists as naturally as flesh and blood
an essential element
emphasizing the stature and humanity of Douglass
favorite recollections prized by members of a family
imply that lives that incorporate a noble ideal are more fitting tributes to Douglas than are works of art
reasserts the belief that the beauty of freedom can best be embodied in living human beings
references to political solutions
the poem can be only a limited tribute to an outstanding individual
Thesaurus
both are imagined are possibly being named “Thesaurus”
words are portrayed as human characters who interact
reinforce the characterization of the words as being obscure
“here…meaning” (lines 15-16)
rigid attitudes toward the use of language
its inability to significantly unite diverse words
pleasure in the meanings that fresh combinations of words can create