Question
Though predecessors in other languages included La secchia rapita (“la SECK-yah ra-PEE-ta”) by Alessandro Tassoni, the first work of this type in English is usually said to be Samuel Butler’s Hudibras. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of long poem that satirizes a trivial subject using elevated diction and epithets. English examples of poems in this two-word style include John Gay’s Trivia and The Dunciad.
ANSWER: mock-epic [or mock-heroic; accept heroi-comic]
[10e] This mock-epic opens by describing a “dire offence [which] from am’rous causes springs.” Sylphs led by Ariel fail to prevent the removal of Belinda’s hair in this poem by Alexander Pope.
ANSWER: The Rape of the Lock
[10h] This mock-epic by a different author begins with the title character, “pond’ring which of all his sons was fit / To reign, and wage immortal war with wit,” soon settling on a man who is “mature in dullness” and “stands confirm’d in full stupidity.”
ANSWER: Mac Flecknoe (by John Dryden)
<Liberty A, British Literature>
Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 21.67 | 100% | 83% | 33% |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 25.00 | 100% | 83% | 67% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 67% | 67% | 33% |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 90% | 60% | 10% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 18.75 | 100% | 75% | 13% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Claremont B | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Claremont A | UCSD | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida A | Florida State A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Florida B | Valencia A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| UCF C | UCF B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Carnegie Mellon B | Case Western B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Kenyon | Michigan B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan A | Michigan D | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Carnegie Mellon A | Michigan State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ohio State A | Michigan C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State B | Case Western A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois A | WashU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| WashU B | Illinois B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago C | Indiana A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago D | Indiana B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Chicago B | Missoui S&T | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Missouri | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Iowa State | Winona State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Wisconsin B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Carleton | Wisconsin A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| BU | Harvard B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brandeis B | Brandeis A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Dartmouth A | UMass Boston | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Harvard A | Tufts A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Brown A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Georgetown A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Notre Dame B | Georgetown B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Notre Dame A | Iowa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Stanford B | Northwestern B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue | Notre Dame C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Texas B | TAMU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | ASU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Bruin A | Georgia Tech A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Alabama A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech C | Tennessee A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech D | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Bristol | Imperial B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge A | Imperial A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge B | Oxford C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cambridge D | Oxford A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Manchester | Durham | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU C | Warwick A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cambridge C | Oxford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Warwick B | Sheffield | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| LSE | Southampton A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Southampton B | Cambridge E | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Vassar A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Columbia B | George Washington B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Haverford B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU A | Maryland B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Haverford A | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn A | John Jay College | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | George Washington A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| RIT B | Binghamton A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cornell D | ESF A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell C | RIT A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |