Question
In Robert Alter’s translation, this speaker describes a being whose “sneezes shoot out light” and whose nostrils emit smoke like “a boiling vat on brushwood.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this speaker who advises “Gird your loins like a man” and launches into a litany of rhetorical questions, like “Who fixed its measures, do you know, / or who stretched a line upon it?”
ANSWER: God [or the Lord, Yahweh, YHWH, or equivalents; or the voice from the whirlwind]
[10e] Alter believes that God’s speech to Job was meant to go after Job’s “hymn” to this concept, which names an ancient Near Eastern literary genre exemplified by the Proverbs.
ANSWER: wisdom [or chokhmah; accept wisdom literature]
[10h] Many couplets in God’s poem exemplify this device, which has “synonymous” and “antithetic” types. Bishop Lowth established the now-standard view that this “thought-rhyming” device is the defining feature of biblical poetry.
ANSWER: parallelism [or parallelismus membrorum; accept synonymous parallelism or antithetic parallelism or synthetic parallelism; reject “parallel”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 18 | 12.78 | 89% | 28% | 11% |
Data
| NYU | Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Brown | Toronto A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Columbia A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Duke | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto B | Florida | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Illinois | Yale A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Indiana | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Kentucky | Chicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Carolina A | Waterloo | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Georgia Tech | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Purdue | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Yale B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Texas | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Harvard | Truman State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Claremont Colleges | WUSTL B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |