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]
<CWRU A, European Literature>
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 |