Question
Upon first encountering this city, a group of characters compare it to “busy bees above a field of flowers / in early summer amid sunbeams toil.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city where a man is brought to tears in a shrine by a mural depicting a conflict he had fled years earlier.
ANSWER: Carthage
[10e] Vergil’s comparison of Carthage to a beehive in the Aeneid exemplifies the “epic” form of this literary device, in which two things are directly compared to each other using “like” or “as.”
ANSWER: simile [accept epic simile or Homeric simile]
[10m] The final book of the Aeneid opens with an epic simile comparing this character to “a lion on the Libyan plain / gashed along his tawny breast.” Despite begging for his life, this character is murdered for wearing the belt of Pallas.
ANSWER: Turnus
<HG, European Literature>
Summary
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| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 100% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 83% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
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