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Monday, May 2, 2011

AP Test Analysis

Ashima: "I don't understand it" (Lahiri, 45).
Algernon: "[This test] is a great bore, and, I need hardly say, [Cat is] a terrible disappointment to me" (Wilde, 18).
Ashima: "It's a pity [she] can't [write]" (Lahiri, 149).
Iago: "Patience, I say. Your mind may change" (Shakespeare, 3.3.449).
Algernon: "[This test] is awfully hard work...I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind (Wilde, 17).
Iago: "Call up her father, / ...make after him, poison his delight" (Shakespeare, 1.1.64-65).
Algernon: "Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live" (Wilde, 15).
Ashima: "[Cat's] working too hard...I hope [she's] not getting an ulcer" (Lahiri, 164).
Iago: "It were a tedious difficulty.../...to [write so much].../....Where's the satisfaction?" (Shakespeare, 3.3.394-398).
Algernon: "I happen to be serious about [writing]. What on earth you are serious about I haven't got the remotest idea." (Wilde, 40).

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