Shotte be sayin

     I'm the first to post!Yay!After all,the say that the early bird gets the least chance of getting shot.Right?Anyway I will start off with question 4. Now everybody missed this because the question is ridunklulous.How does "vilely phrased" translate into he thinks he's being pretentious?The whole conversation was pretentious!It was just two English people talking about art and nature while naming Aristotle, Corot,and Constable!How was I supposed to know that that wasn't pretentious?Anyway...guess you can't get em all,huh?Now for question 7.  I don't know why people missed that one.He started talking abut England for the first time so it had to be a digression.He wasn't distinguishing,undermining,or providing evidence for anything.He was being an idiot,though,in my opinion.Number 9. was I guess difficult because you had to skim over the whole thing and take out each answer one by one."Nature is uncomfortable" seems like it would have gotten a lot of people.This question was less thinking and more checking which is annoying to do at times.
      I got number 13. wrong because I put that it was funny because of the superficiality of his argumentation.I mean,wasn't that funny?The fact that you could agree with some of his points while realizing how silly all of them were?The answer was the one with a whole bunch of big words which, in my experience,have always been the ones that are just there to trick people so I didn't think of it.Number 21. I got wrong because I didn't know what plumes were.It came after I and my so I assumed it was an appositive.I was lucky with number 24. because idiosyncratic and conventional weren't correlated from my point of view. I have a feeling that the answers were all over the place because of that.If you didn't know what idiosyncratic meant and just relied on conventional,then you probably would have chosen capitalization or rhymes.Question 31. was difficult because "to boot" isn't a phrase that is commonly used today or one that I've ever seen.I put addition because the line says "the price of souls,EVEN Hell.." so I guessed that the speaker was talking about more than one thing so.... addition....
      I'm really happy with my progress in class and my biggest goal is to keep that up.I want to have consistency with my essays(kinda been happening) and my diagnostics(so far have been all over the place). I want to get more confident with my work.I am always nervous when I get my stuff back(Like Taylor Swift,you guys!).For instance,even though I believed I did fairly well on this recent diagnostic,when I got it back I freaked because I mistakenly thought my number correct was my score.All of my confidence shot out of the window for that 10 seconds and it shouldn't have.Anyway, I feel like our sponges should be changed from the way they are to a multiple choice format.Yes,I know,not so exciting and AP-ish,but I feel that it's needed.What we've been doing has been great so far,but as we near the test,I think we should start thinking more test-minded.Sometimes in class,we don't have a clear answer so we just say things and you nod your head and say"I see" "Maybe" "Hmmm". Gurlfriend,we need to know if we're right or wrong!We need clear cut answers!I know multiple choice is less creative and more structure,but the AP exam is also, right?So if we can't beat them,let's join them.