28/50

Better than a 50% at least, if barely.

     It seems patently unfair to ask questions involving tone in a multiple choice format, especially when dealing with literary analysis. I will let them make me wrong on all things concerning literary terms I didn't know, poetry forms I didn't know, and nuances of language that I wasn't sure how to look for, but the minute I get dinged a point for having the audacity to say that it was night time and not sunrise in a piece that mentions the moon, I get tetchy. I also take issue with the idea that a poem involving death and the separation of lovers is allowed to be 'sanguine' simply based on the fact that their love will last. It's still death, and loneliness. Sure, John Donne is confident in their love continuing past the realm of the living, but he is still left behind, and it still involves death. In the long run though, this is probably how I would do on any other AP style test before I took the course. I'm not particularly worried yet- it might take whips and chains to get me to abandon the stubborn impulse to disagree with common analysis, but it will happen eventually.

Cheers!