Packet D: Bonus 1
In this poem, the speaker comments that “heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter” while observing a piper playing music and two lovers about to kiss. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this ekphrastic poem whose title subject is addressed as a “still unravish’d bride of quietness” and a “foster child of silence and slow time.” This poem ends by declaring that “beauty is truth, truth beauty.”
ANSWER: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
[10e] “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is by this Romantic English poet, whose other works include “La Belle Dame sans Merci” and “Ode to a Nightingale.”
ANSWER: John Keats
[10h] Following Keats’ death, Percy Shelley eulogized him in this elegy. This poem asks, “Where was lorn Urania when [the title character of this poem] died?”
ANSWER: “Adonais” (“add-on-AY-iss”) [or “Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc.”]
<Edinburgh A, British Literature> | Packet D
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | 13.60 | 76% | 43% | 17% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberty A | William & Mary C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Liberty C | NCSU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UNC A | JMU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| UNC C | Virginia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UNC D | Liberty B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| VCU A | NCSU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Virginia Tech A | JMU B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | ME |
| Virginia Tech C | William & Mary B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MEH |
| William & Mary A | UNC B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | Main | ✓ | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Southern California | Main | ✓ | 7 | 12.86 | 86% | 43% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | Main | ✓ | 5 | 16.00 | 60% | 60% | 40% |
| Florida | Main | ✓ | 4 | 10.00 | 50% | 25% | 25% |
| Great Lakes | Main | ✓ | 10 | 16.00 | 70% | 70% | 20% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 67% | 22% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | ✓ | 9 | 10.00 | 78% | 22% | 0% |
| North | Main | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| Northeast | Main | ✓ | 12 | 19.17 | 92% | 67% | 33% |
| Pacific | Main | ✓ | 8 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| South Central | Main | ✓ | 6 | 10.00 | 67% | 17% | 17% |
| Southeast | Main | ✓ | 12 | 11.67 | 67% | 33% | 17% |
| Upstate NY | Main | ✓ | 5 | 8.00 | 40% | 20% | 20% |
| UK (North) | UK | ✓ | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 20% | 20% |