mēnin - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about pronouncing the opening line of Homer’s Iliad, for 10 points each.

[10m] The eta should be stressed in this opening word of the Iliad, an abstract noun. You may give the Greek word or any of its common English translations.

ANSWER: mēnin [accept rage, anger, wrath, or synonyms]

[10e] The opening line attributes the mēnin, or wrath, to this Greek hero who is the protagonist of the Iliad.

ANSWER: Achilles [or Achilleus; or Akhilaos]

[10h] Because the Iliad is in dactylic hexameter, its lines end with a spondee, which has this syllabic configuration.

ANSWER: two stressed syllables [or two long syllables; accept stressed stressed or long long; accept macron macron or two syllables with macrons; accept two heavy or two emphasized syllables; prompt on two syllables]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	67%	17%	33%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	18.33	83%	83%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	100%	40%	40%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	12.50	75%	50%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	12.00	80%	20%	20%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	13.75	75%	38%	25%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


UC Berkeley B	Claremont A	0	10	0	10
UCLA	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	0	10	0	10
Valencia A	Florida State A	0	0	0	0
Florida B	UCF B	0	10	0	10
Florida A	UCF C	10	10	0	20
UNC C	Duke	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	0	10	0	10
William & Mary	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina	UNC B	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	Liberty C	0	10	10	20
UNC D	Wake Forest	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
Illinois B	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
Missoui S&T	Illinois A	10	10	0	20
Chicago C	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Missouri	Chicago D	10	10	0	20
WashU B	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Carleton	10	10	0	20
Minnesota B	Winona State	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin A	Wisconsin B	0	10	0	10
Brandeis A	Tufts A	10	10	10	30
BU	Brandeis B	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Dartmouth A	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Harvard B	0	10	10	20
Brown A	UMass Boston	0	10	0	10
UBC	Alberta	0	10	0	10
UW A	UW B	0	10	0	10
TAMU	ASU	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Texas A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Louisville A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Vanderbilt A	10	10	0	20
Bruin A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Oxford C	0	10	0	10
NYU C	Cambridge A	0	10	0	10
Oxford A	Cambridge B	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Cambridge C	0	10	0	10
LSE	Cambridge D	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Cambridge E	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Durham	10	10	0	20
Imperial B	Warwick B	0	10	0	10
Southampton A	Sheffield	0	0	0	0
Southampton B	Oxford B	0	0	0	0
Columbia B	Maryland A	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	Haverford A	10	10	10	30
Vassar A	George Washington A	0	0	0	0
George Washington B	Maryland B	0	0	0	0
John Jay College	Haverford B	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins A	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Penn A	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Rutgers A	10	10	10	30
Binghamton A	Cornell C	0	10	0	10
RIT A	Cornell D	0	10	0	10
ESF A	RIT B	0	10	0	10