Question
In an unfinished acrostic for a girl named Frances Alexander, this person wrote, “From your bright sparkling Eyes, I was undone.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this person, who titles a poem whose speaker describes, “A crown, a mansion, and a throne that shine.” The speaker of a poem titled for this person says, “The Goddess comes, she moves divinely fair.”
ANSWER: George Washington [accept “To His Excellency General Washington”]
[10m] This author wrote “To His Excellency General Washington” and “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield.”
ANSWER: Phillis Wheatley
[10e] Wheatley’s poem about George Whitefield is in this genre, as is her recently uncovered poem “On the Death of Love Rotch.” Thomas Gray wrote one of these memorial poems “in a Country Churchyard.”
ANSWER: elegy [accept “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 67% | 17% |
Data
| Columbia A | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell C | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Yale B | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Princeton A | Penn A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Princeton B | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |