Thursday, February 14, 2013

AP Question Answers


Poem
1.       The Correct choice is B. The context before these lines uses the word “dungeon” this word provides the audience with the negative relationship the Soul feels towards the body.
a.       Incorrect because the Soul is not literally bolted to the Body, knowing that this entire piece is full of metaphors and is an allegory because the soul and the body don’t really speak with each other.
b.      Correct: a metaphor of illuminating how the Body is binding the Soul inside.
c.       Incorrect because there are no literary devices to support that there is foreshadowing going on and the body and soul do not seem very hopeful through the tone.
d.      Incorrect because the Soul is explaining how the Body is binding and confining it from being it’s true form and they are metaphorical handcuffs
e.      Incorrect because the Soul and the Body are not agreeing throughout this poem and it reinforces the Soul’s frustration and anger of being stuck in the Body; not it’s love towards it.
2.       The word “Employs” refers to the Soul’s devotion to preserving its greatness in hopes that one day it many no longer be confined to the body.
a.       Incorrect because this poem has nothing to do with giving someone a job.
b.      Incorrect because the Soul is taking this role upon themselves not putting a job upon someone.
c.       Incorrect because the Soul just cares about itself and is not using a care as a legit tool, just a concept, so it can have hope.
d.      Correct: Devoting all the Soul’s care into preserving itself.
e.      Incorrect because the Soul’s care is very focused on one thing; wanting to be freed from the body’s bounds; therefore it has no parts underneath it.
3.       The Soul and the Body conversing establishes all of the following except: C. The body doesn’t feel as though it has the opportunity to be free, in thought, to make its own decisions.
a.       Incorrect because this statement is true based on the Body confining the Soul, therefore, control over the Soul.
b.      Incorrect because the Soul does lack freedom, as the body confines it from being free.
c.       Correct: The Body’s ability to do what it desires.
d.      Incorrect because the Soul’s constriction on the decisions of the Body is there; the body cannot think for itself.
e.      Incorrect because the Soul has set the Body up for future struggles it may face; the only problem the body has with this is that it feels like it never got to witness these struggles and its life was lived for it by the Soul.
4.       “And ready oft the port to gain,/ Am shipwreck’d into health again” is an example of a: D Metaphor because the Soul is not truly shipwrecked it only feel this way and says that to describe its feelings.
a.       Incorrect because a simile compares two things using like or as and this quote does not.
b.      Incorrect because a hyperbole is an over exaggeration of something and this is not exaggerating.
c.       Incorrect because alliteration is when there are multiple words in the same sentence with the same starting consonant.
d.      Correct: Metaphor
e.      Incorrect because onomatopoeia is used to describe something normal through one sensory details.
5.        The imprisonment that the Soul is feeling from the Body is illuminated though both I and II, therefore the answer is V.
a.        “What magic could me thus confine/ Within another’s grief to pine?”
b.      “Constrain’d not only to endure”
Both of the above answers are correct because they both deal with the Soul being confined in the body and unable to move forward because it is stuck inside the body.
c.       This choice is not correct because it is the Body saying that it is going into an abyss of it’s own and it wishes that it could live a free and happy life like in the dreams it dreams of in that specific place. “That mine own precipice I go;”
Therefore:
                                                               i.      I -incorrect
                                                             ii.      II -incorrect
                                                            iii.      III -incorrect
                                                           iv.      I and III -Incorrect
                                                             v.      I and II -correct

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