1. Number 4 asked why Vivian thought that the quote was vilely phrased. The question was not that difficult at all I think the reason why most people got this wrong is because they read the passage and Vivian's response and thought that the answer had to deal with nature or art(Otherwise letter E) when it was actually really simple. Also they probably didn't know what pretentious meant so that was a handicapping.
2.Number 7 asked for the primary rhetorical function of the sentence in quotes. This was a fairly hard question because it required much thought on what the author was trying to do with the quote and the student had to read the passage to understand what the sentence was about. I personally chose the answer choice B which was wrong. I had no idea that the author was introducing a digression from the central topic.
3. Number 9 asked the reader to figure out what argument the second speech repeats from the first. This question was not hard at all I think that the reason I missed this was because I misinterpreted the question that was being asked. Instead of looking at the main focus of the 2 speech and getting its ideals I thought about the ideal that mainly recurred in the first speech but not really much in the second speech. After going back and reading the second speech there is clear evidence to support the correct answer choice.
4. Number 13 Asked the reader to identify where the comedy of the passage derived from. I think that this question is only hard if the reader could not see the paradoxes in the passage and if the reader got lazy and just picked the answer choice that seemed the easiest and falsely obvious. I was considering C to be the correct answer but I was not sure of myself and I was being lazy so I picked the answer choice D.
5. Number 21asked the reader to determine, grammatically the function of the word Plumes. This was an easy grammar question. I got this question right and knew that it was clear that Plumes was the direct object of Lift.
6. Number 24 asked the reader to determine the least idiosyncratic aspect of Dickinson's poem. This question is hard if the reader does not know the meaning of the word idiosyncratic. Other than not knowing the meaning of that word the question was easy. The meter other than other aspects of the poem was conventional and consistent, while the other aspects listed were weird.
7. Number 54 asked the reader to determine what the character Louisa believed that Joe Dagget functioned to her. I don't know if this question is hard or not because I did not get to it. I guess the answer for this and got it wrong. Nevertheless this question could be difficult because it is a characterization question and asked the reader to judge based on the events that occurred what the character Louisa thought about Joe.
I don't particularly like the score that I got on this benchmark. I had generally been doing well on the benchmarks but I think that i dropped the ball on this one. The primary reason for my low score I think is over analysis at times and spending too much time trying to figure out the right answer to some questions and not others. I think that the best thing for me to do is learn to skim through the passages based on the questions and try to answer the questions that way unless it asks me for themes or big ideas. From now on I am going to implement the strategy that I stated before. I also feel for the benchmarks that I try to based more of my answers on examples from the text and not mere speculation. My goals for the Benchmark will probably be grades within the 80-100 range.
I liked the progress that I have gotten with my past essays. I have done well as my essays have usually been top tier in the 6-8 range. The reason for this is that I am thinking a lot better and I have tried to focus my analysis on mostly tone imagery and themes and have set up a little formula for how I am going to write my essay based on the type of essay that I am supposed to write. Because of the formula that I adapted from you I feel a lot less under pressured and capable of writing my analysis of poems or prose. As for goals for my essays I still have not gotten that coveted 9 on any essay which I have been searching for. I don't particularly know what I need to do to get a 9 but that is my goal for the moment. I hope to talk to you about this. As for what I need to work on in my writing I need to focus more on the little thing which serve as evidence for my big ideas or my thesis and I still feel that the level of insight in my essays can be a bit insightful.
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