Test specifications
how long is the test over all including both sections?
3 hours
- experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
- characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
- lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence.
- great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective
- match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation
- relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric AND expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress
- vicarious
- ascetic
- crass
- zeal
- emulate
- rhetorical
The women who requests Pip to come to her home and play with her daughter
Mrs. Havisham
what was the procedure being talked about in Hills like White Elephants
Abortion
- A figure of speech that compares two distinct things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, and resembles.
- What is a simile
what is the highest score that you can get on the essays?
6
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- conducive to success; favorable
- making a loud, confused noise; uproarious
- bring (a child) into existence by the process of reproduction AND give rise to; bring about
- the state of being annoyed, frustrated, or worried.
- an item of food
- run or jump about playfully
- auspicious
- tumultuous
- beget
- vexation
- viands
- gambol
What is Mrs. Havisham's fate?
she catches fire and slowly dies
what was wrong with the women in The Yellow Wallpaper?
Post partum depression
- PROSE meaning
- paraphrase or plot description of the poem
What part of the exam is 60 minutes and worth 45% of your test grade, and has 55 questions?
Part 1 multiple choice
- a quality of sticking with something, no matter what
- additional items of dress or equipment, or other items carried or worn by a person or used for a
- rebuke or reprimand severely
- open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous
- the state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia
- pertinacity
- accouterments
- chastening
- equivocal
- languor
- quail
Who was pips secret sponsor?
The Convict
who did the scarlet Ibis end up being / symbolizing?
doodle (main characters little brother)
- a group of set lines in a poem, usually physically set off from others such clusters by a blank line.
- what is a stanza
What is a topic graded through your essays that contains your solid connections of your arguments and evidence?
Line of Reasoning
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- render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible AND bewilder (someone)
- characterized by or showing interest or concern
- having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one's advantage.
- not in a direct way; indirectly AND in an oblique direction; slantwise
- having or showing the symptoms of a fever AND having or showing a great deal of nervous excitement or energy
- extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world
- obfuscate
- solicitous
- astute
- obliquely
- febrile
- ethereal
Who did compeyson (Mrs. Havisham's old fiancée) end up being revealed as later in the story?
and what was Compeysons fate?
Provis' (the convict) rival / old partner
His fate was that he fought in the river with Provis and was killed by Provis.
What was a component of the Scarlet Ibis setting that served as symbolism or to further the mood of the story?
whether, birds, insects and small animals, plants and flwoers
- regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry (related to rhythm)
- What is a meter
what are the three types of essays in the second section?
poetry, Prose, Lit. Argument
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- Endless
- present, appearing, or found everywhere
- very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or someone less powerful than oneself
- (of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words
- a person's look or manner, especially one of a particular kind indicating their character or mood
- conformity to facts; accuracy
- interminable
- ubiquitous
- magnanimous
- laconic
- mien
- veracity
What is Pips main struggle once leaving for England?
(dealing with the wealth he inherited) Worldly struggle?
Emotional struggle?
worldly struggle: Debt
Emotional struggle: loneliness and dissatisfaction
what really caused the women's death at the end of the Story of an Hour?
grief for the life / freedom she thought she gained after her husbands perceived death
- the analysis of poetic meter (uses symbols to mark stressed and unstressed syllables)
- What is a scansion