Question
Ada Limón imagines that she possesses “the huge beating genius machine” of one of these animals in the poem “How to Triumph Like a Girl.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these animals that “were drawn of blood” and “were bodies of sand” according to a Joy Harjo poem named for them.
ANSWER: horses [accept “She Had Some Horses”]
[10m] While in this city, Limón realizes that the titular “Miracle Fish” is moved by the “massive ocean inside me.” A Walt Whitman poem about a ferry in this city declares, “Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!”
ANSWER: New York City [or NYC; accept Brooklyn; accept “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”]
[10e] In another poem, Limón describes one of these birds as a “naked child swinging in the wind.” Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem about one of these birds that croaks “Nevermore.”
ANSWER: raven [accept “Dream of the Raven;” accept “The Raven”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 10 | 13.00 | 100% | 20% | 10% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 88% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 38% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
Data
| Bard A (UG) | Penn B (DII) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A (UG) | Fordham A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland A (DII) | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| NYU A (UG) | Lehigh B (DII) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU B | Penn A (DII) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Maryland B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers A (UG) | Columbia J (DII) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Lehigh A (UG) | Rutgers B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |