Question
In a discussion of alliteration, this poet quoted a line by Robert Penn Warren about “The bear’s tongue, pink as a baby’s, out-crisps to the curled tip, / [which] bleeds the black blood of the blueberry.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet who asked, “What is the difference between a stone and a rock?” in an analysis of sound in A Poetry Handbook. This poet wrote, “You do not have to be good,” in the opening of the poem “Wild Geese.”
ANSWER: Mary Oliver [or Mary Jane Oliver]
[10e] Victor Shklovsky wrote, “art exists to make the stone stony,” in “Art as Technique,” part of his Theory of this form. A type of poetry named for this form is contrasted with verse due to its use of paragraphs and lack of meter.
ANSWER: prose [accept prose poetry; accept Theory of Prose]
[10m] This writer rebutted George Berkeley’s theory of immaterialism by kicking a stone and declaring, “I refute it thus,” an incident described by a friend on a tour to the Hebrides with this author.
ANSWER: Samuel Johnson [or Dr. Samuel Johnson]
<CM, American Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ARCADIA at Duke | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Emory | Emory, Duke, Yale | Y | 4 | 7.50 | 50% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Imperial | Imperial | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 80% | 20% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Maryland | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 ARCADIA Online | Maryland, Online | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
| 2023 ARCADIA at Texas | Ohio State, Texas | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| George Washington A | Maryland A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Georgetown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland B | George Washington B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |