mock-epic - 2025 ACF Regionals

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)

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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