Packet N: Bonus 6
This poet dedicated an ode to “the happy memory of five Franciscan Nuns” who were killed in a shipwreck. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this English Jesuit poet of “The Wreck of the Deutschland.” This poet used diacritics to mark stressed syllables in meters as part of pioneering “sprung rhythm.”
ANSWER: Gerard Manley Hopkins
[10m] In this poem’s final stanza, the words “shéer plód” are marked with diacritics to stress them. This Hopkins poem about the title bird opens, “I caught this morning morning’s minion, king- / dom of daylight’s dauphin.”
ANSWER: “The Windhover”
[10h] Hopkins adapted this Welsh poetic technique to write the line “Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend.” In a form of this technique whose name means “harmony,” consonants in the first half of a line are repeated in the second half.
ANSWER: cynghanedd (“kung-HAH-neth”) (The poem in the first line is “The Sea and the Skylark.”)
<Virginia Tech B, British Literature> | Packet N - Simon Fraser A, Carleton A, Georgia Tech A, Claremont A, Warwick A, Columbia B
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 12.82 | 77% | 49% | 3% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McGill A | Toronto D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| McGill B | Toronto F | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| McMaster A | Western A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Ottawa | Toronto C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Queen's | Toronto G | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto B | Western B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Toronto E | Toronto Metropolitan | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UBC A | Waterloo B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| UBC B | McMaster B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Waterloo A | Brock | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Western C | Guelph | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | M |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (South) | Main Site | ✓ | 4 | 7.50 | 75% | 0% | 0% |
| Canada | Main Site | ✓ | 11 | 13.64 | 73% | 64% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Northeast | Main Site | ✓ | 5 | 6.00 | 40% | 20% | 0% |
| UK | Main Site | ✓ | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | ✓ | 8 | 12.50 | 75% | 50% | 0% |