Bonus
A book by Brad Leithauser imagines the Funesians, an Andean race with perfect recall of this property even over hundreds of lines of a poem. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this property of line endings in heroic couplets. Capital letters are used to mark the “end” form of this sound property of verse.
ANSWER: rhyme [or word forms like rhyming; accept end rhymes; accept Rhyme’s Rooms]
[10h] Leithauser’s book Rhyme’s Rooms wryly notes that a Funesian would dispute that this poem is unrhymed, since its first line-ending word, “fruit,” rhymes with “pursuit” 170 lines later. This poem’s preface calls rhyme an “invention of a barbarous age.”
ANSWER: Paradise Lost (by John Milton)
[10m] Leithauser argues that had Milton died after only completing 100 lines of Paradise Lost, scholars could still predict where he would replace its iambs with these feet. In this metrical foot, an accented syllable is followed by an unaccented one.
ANSWER: trochee (“TRO-kee”) [or choree]
<TH, British Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56 | 18.21 | 89% | 71% | 21% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 20.00 | 75% | 75% | 50% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | 6 | 23.33 | 100% | 83% | 50% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | 3 | 13.33 | 33% | 100% | 0% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 60% | 40% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | 5 | 18.00 | 80% | 80% | 20% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | 10 | 20.00 | 90% | 80% | 30% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | 7 | 20.00 | 100% | 86% | 14% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |