rhyme - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A book by Brad Leithauser imagines the Funesians, an Andean race with perfect recall of this property even over hundreds of lines of a poem. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this property of line endings in heroic couplets. Capital letters are used to mark the “end” form of this sound property of verse.

ANSWER: rhyme [or word forms like rhyming; accept end rhymes; accept Rhyme’s Rooms]

[10h] Leithauser’s book Rhyme’s Rooms wryly notes that a Funesian would dispute that this poem is unrhymed, since its first line-ending word, “fruit,” rhymes with “pursuit” 170 lines later. This poem’s preface calls rhyme an “invention of a barbarous age.”

ANSWER: Paradise Lost (by John Milton)

[10m] Leithauser argues that had Milton died after only completing 100 lines of Paradise Lost, scholars could still predict where he would replace its iambs with these feet. In this metrical foot, an accented syllable is followed by an unaccented one.

ANSWER: trochee (“TRO-kee”) [or choree]

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Summary


Florida	2025-02-01	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	4	20.00	75%	75%	50%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	23.33	100%	83%	50%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	33%	100%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	80%	60%	40%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	80%	80%	20%
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	15.00	100%	50%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	20.00	90%	80%	30%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	20.00	100%	86%	14%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%

Data


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