“Abraham Lincoln was a vampire. They’re making two movies about it.”
“Hey, uh, you can’t leave until you code your share of the work. So… See you in ten years.”
“Nah, we’ll let him out. Once or twice.”
*indecipherable Chinese/Japanese/someforeignlanguagethatsoundsAsian*
“Man, I can’t wait for those movies to come out.”
“Ooooooh, I’ve got it.*
*uncontrollable laughing*
I have always hated English tests- especially the ones made not by your teacher but by someone at a desk somewhere. Here is an example of a question:
Ten thousand thousand fruit to touch.”
Is that alliteration or hyperbole? I examined it thoroughly. “Ten” and “fruit to touch” have an alliterative sound to them. “Thousand thousand” does not. So it is a little alliterative (no pun intended), but not completely. So, hyperbole? Well, I don’t know approximately how apples can be picked in a season. On an apple-picking farm (assuming it’s a modern one) I can be pretty sure that there will be several people doing the harvest, and they will have a large farm because all farms are now, due to the fewer number of farmers but the remaining demand for food. Could they pick about 1,000,000 apples in a harvest? I think so- when you consider of how small an apple is, and how many are shipped to various grocery stores, and the sheer size of an orchard, that seems reasonable (to me). So it might be hyperbole, but I am guessing* it’s not.
*This is the problem- if I know what the term is, then it should not be a guessing contest between two answers. Hyperbole means extreme exaggeration, and alliteration is repeating ion of consonants (Sally sells seashells by the seashore). I really, really hate when there is doubt in what an answer is. This one of the reasons I would rather take a math test than an English test, because of the ambiguity of the questions. I do sympathize with the people creating the tests, because there is almost no way to truly test someone’s aptitude at a language. But the test really fails if it represents someone’s knowledge at a lower level than it truly is.
I chose alliteration.
It was hyperbole.
*sigh*
I just took the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. It was… Interesting, to say the least. I look forward to any psychology classes in college. I was, ultimately, the INFJ type. (Introversion, intuition, feeling, judging.) I had a lot of trouble picking answers for this, especially the last question- judgement or perception. I eventually went with judgement because I shared more factors with that than with perception, but I was loathe to leave the ‘avoids commitments that restrict flexibility, variety, and freedom’ part of perception. ‘Works better without deadlines’, however, has been proven to be very true for me, as well as planning details. I was roughly half and half between those two.
Introversion is not at all surprising. I fit with that entirely, though I have a few symptoms of extroversion. I favor intuition over sensing, though I had trouble deciding this as well. I also found difficulty in deciding feeling over thinking.
Overall, that was very interesting and personally… Not personally revealing, but certainly personally clarifying. I’m still not sure I made the right choice in judging over perceiving. I look forward to psychology classes now. What an interesting subject.