Literature - Revision history

Ophir Lifshitz: answerlines missing for no apparent reason

2024-07-20T07:24:03Z

answerlines missing for no apparent reason

Kevin Wang at 17:23, 26 October 2021

2021-10-26T17:23:42Z

Ophir Lifshitz: ibid

2021-05-12T08:13:40Z

ibid

Ophir Lifshitz: clean up, but I don't think these sample questions are really necessary or good

2021-05-03T01:42:24Z

clean up, but I don't think these sample questions are really necessary or good

Jonah Greenthal: Reverted edits by Alex Liu (talk) to last revision by Zachary Yan

2014-05-15T05:16:31Z

Reverted edits by Alex Liu (talk) to last revision by Zachary Yan

Alex Liu: /* Types of Literature Tossups */ TU examples look weird and out-of-place in small text and annoying in normal text. Examples not really necessary, I'm sure most people reading this knows what what means.

2014-05-15T01:08:15Z

Types of Literature Tossups: TU examples look weird and out-of-place in small text and annoying in normal text. Examples not really necessary, I'm sure most people reading this knows what what means.

Zachary Yan: /* Author */

2014-05-14T23:51:28Z

Author

Zachary Yan at 23:50, 14 May 2014

2014-05-14T23:50:31Z

Alex Liu: NAQT and YA/kid lit.

2013-10-02T14:15:05Z

NAQT and YA/kid lit.

Alex Liu: Editing link so that it will lead to correct article in plural form instead of being a redlink.

2013-09-25T17:53:18Z

Editing link so that it will lead to correct article in plural form instead of being a redlink.

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 {{qq|
-The narrator of this book journeys past Saturn with an angel to show him a house where chained monkeys tear off and devour each others’ limbs and a mill containing the skeletal body of Aristotle’s Analytics. Near the end of this book, the narrator describes seeing a figure in a flame of fire who tells an angel that Jesus “was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules,” causing the Angel to embrace the fire and arise as Elijah. It begins with the invocation “Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden’d air; / Hungry clouds swag on the deep,” and includes a series of proverbs such as “the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” This book claims “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite,” and calls Milton “a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it.” This satire of the works of Swedenborg identifies the first title location with passivity and the second with energy. For 10 points, name this illuminated book by William Blake which reverses orthodox conceptions of the Christian afterlife.|cite=[[2011 ACF Nationals]]}}
+The narrator of this book journeys past Saturn with an angel to show him a house where chained monkeys tear off and devour each others’ limbs and a mill containing the skeletal body of Aristotle’s Analytics. Near the end of this book, the narrator describes seeing a figure in a flame of fire who tells an angel that Jesus “was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules,” causing the Angel to embrace the fire and arise as Elijah. It begins with the invocation “Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden’d air; / Hungry clouds swag on the deep,” and includes a series of proverbs such as “the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” This book claims “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite,” and calls Milton “a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it.” This satire of the works of Swedenborg identifies the first title location with passivity and the second with energy. For 10 points, name this illuminated book by William Blake which reverses orthodox conceptions of the Christian afterlife.
 === Author ===
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 {{qq|
-<b>This poet described a “luminary clock against the sky” proclaiming the time to be “neither wrong nor right” in one poem. His poem “The Lesson for Today” is the source of his epitaph, “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world,” This author of “Acquainted With the Night” wrote of how “Eden sank to grief” and how “dawn goes down to day” in a poem about Nature’s “hardest (*)</b> hue to hold” and presented two possible ends of the world in his “Fire and Ice.” This author of “Nothing Gold Can Stay” predicted that he’d be “telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence” in a poem about a choice made in a yellow wood. For 10 points, name this New England-based poet who wrote “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”|cite=[[2012 PACE NSC]]}}
+<b>This poet described a “luminary clock against the sky” proclaiming the time to be “neither wrong nor right” in one poem. His poem “The Lesson for Today” is the source of his epitaph, “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world,” This author of “Acquainted With the Night” wrote of how “Eden sank to grief” and how “dawn goes down to day” in a poem about Nature’s “hardest (*)</b> hue to hold” and presented two possible ends of the world in his “Fire and Ice.” This author of “Nothing Gold Can Stay” predicted that he’d be “telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence” in a poem about a choice made in a yellow wood. For 10 points, name this New England-based poet who wrote “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
 === Common link ===

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−	'''Literature''' (or '''lit''' for short) is a major academic subject in the quizbowl [[distribution]]. In [[ACF]] and similar [[distribution]]s, literature questions typically take up about 20 percent of the questions in a given [[packet]]. Together with [[science]] and [[history]], literature is one of the [[Big Three]] categories.	+	{{Category box}}
		+	<onlyinclude>
		+	'''Literature''' (or '''lit''' for short) is one of [[Big Three\|three major academic subject]] in the quizbowl [[distribution]]. In [[ACF]] and similar [[distribution]]s, literature questions typically take up about 20 percent of the questions in a given [[packet]]. Together with [[science]] and [[history]], literature is one of the [[Big Three]] categories.</onlyinclude>

	Literature questions are typically written on any/all fictional work from ancient times to the present, though philosophical dialogues and religious/mythological writings are often separated out into [[RMP]]. (However, [[NAQT]]'s distribution unusually includes mythology and religious literature as subcategories of literature rather than splitting them out.) The literature category is usually [[subdistribution\|subdivided]] by culture (American, British, European, and World literature being the usual divisions) and/or by type of literature (prose, drama, and poetry, with prose including novels and short stories). Questions or [[clue]]s on literary criticism ("lit crit") are also usually grouped under the literature distribution.		Literature questions are typically written on any/all fictional work from ancient times to the present, though philosophical dialogues and religious/mythological writings are often separated out into [[RMP]]. (However, [[NAQT]]'s distribution unusually includes mythology and religious literature as subcategories of literature rather than splitting them out.) The literature category is usually [[subdistribution\|subdivided]] by culture (American, British, European, and World literature being the usual divisions) and/or by type of literature (prose, drama, and poetry, with prose including novels and short stories). Questions or [[clue]]s on literary criticism ("lit crit") are also usually grouped under the literature distribution.

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 '''Literature''' (or '''lit''' for short) is a major academic subject in the quizbowl [[distribution]]. In [[ACF]] and similar [[distribution]]s, literature questions typically take up about 20 percent of the questions in a given [[packet]]. Together with [[science]] and [[history]], literature is one of the [[Big Three]] categories.
-Literature questions are typically written on any/all fictional work from ancient times to the present, though philosophical dialogues and religious/mythological writings are often separated out into [[RMP]]. (However, [[NAQT]]'s distribution unusually includes mythology and religious literature as subcategories of literature rather than splitting them out.) The literature category is usually subdivided by culture (American, British, European, and World literature being the usual divisions) and/or by type of literature (prose, drama, and poetry, with prose including novels and short stories). Questions or [[clue]]s on literary criticism ("lit crit") are also usually grouped under the literature distribution.
+Literature questions are typically written on any/all fictional work from ancient times to the present, though philosophical dialogues and religious/mythological writings are often separated out into [[RMP]]. (However, [[NAQT]]'s distribution unusually includes mythology and religious literature as subcategories of literature rather than splitting them out.) The literature category is usually [[subdistribution|subdivided]] by culture (American, British, European, and World literature being the usual divisions) and/or by type of literature (prose, drama, and poetry, with prose including novels and short stories). Questions or [[clue]]s on literary criticism ("lit crit") are also usually grouped under the literature distribution.
 Not all questions that happen to be about books are considered literature. Pop culture books (''The Da Vinci Code'', etc.), children's literature (''Harry Potter'', etc.), and sci-fi/fantasy (''A Game of Thrones'', ''Ender's Game'', etc.) are generally ''not'' considered literature and are instead grouped as [[trash]], although NAQT includes children's literature and young adult literature in its literature distribution in its high school and middle school questions.
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 The answer in these questions is a single literary work.
-<blockquote style="font-family: serif; max-width: 50em;">
+{{qq|
-The narrator of this book journeys past Saturn with an angel to show him a house where chained monkeys tear off and devour each others’ limbs and a mill containing the skeletal body of Aristotle’s Analytics. Near the end of this book, the narrator describes seeing a figure in a flame of fire who tells an angel that Jesus “was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules,” causing the Angel to embrace the fire and arise as Elijah. It begins with the invocation “Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden’d air; / Hungry clouds swag on the deep,” and includes a series of proverbs such as “the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” This book claims “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite,” and calls Milton “a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it.” This satire of the works of Swedenborg identifies the first title location with passivity and the second with energy. For 10 points, name this illuminated book by William Blake which reverses orthodox conceptions of the Christian afterlife. (2011 ACF Nationals)
+The narrator of this book journeys past Saturn with an angel to show him a house where chained monkeys tear off and devour each others’ limbs and a mill containing the skeletal body of Aristotle’s Analytics. Near the end of this book, the narrator describes seeing a figure in a flame of fire who tells an angel that Jesus “was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules,” causing the Angel to embrace the fire and arise as Elijah. It begins with the invocation “Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden’d air; / Hungry clouds swag on the deep,” and includes a series of proverbs such as “the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” This book claims “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite,” and calls Milton “a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it.” This satire of the works of Swedenborg identifies the first title location with passivity and the second with energy. For 10 points, name this illuminated book by William Blake which reverses orthodox conceptions of the Christian afterlife.|cite=[[2011 ACF Nationals]]}}
 === Author ===
 Author-based tossups give descriptions of a number of different works by a single author. Excessive use of [[biographical clues]] is discouraged.
-<blockquote style="font-family: serif; max-width: 50em;">
+{{qq|
-<b>This poet described a “luminary clock against the sky” proclaiming the time to be “neither wrong nor right” in one poem. His poem “The Lesson for Today” is the source of his epitaph, “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world,” This author of “Acquainted With the Night” wrote of how “Eden sank to grief” and how “dawn goes down to day” in a poem about Nature’s “hardest (*)</b> hue to hold” and presented two possible ends of the world in his “Fire and Ice.” This author of “Nothing Gold Can Stay” predicted that he’d be “telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence” in a poem about a choice made in a yellow wood. For 10 points, name this New England-based poet who wrote “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” (2012 PACE NSC)
+<b>This poet described a “luminary clock against the sky” proclaiming the time to be “neither wrong nor right” in one poem. His poem “The Lesson for Today” is the source of his epitaph, “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world,” This author of “Acquainted With the Night” wrote of how “Eden sank to grief” and how “dawn goes down to day” in a poem about Nature’s “hardest (*)</b> hue to hold” and presented two possible ends of the world in his “Fire and Ice.” This author of “Nothing Gold Can Stay” predicted that he’d be “telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence” in a poem about a choice made in a yellow wood. For 10 points, name this New England-based poet who wrote “The Road Not Taken” and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”|cite=[[2012 PACE NSC]]}}
-=== Common Link ===
+=== Common link ===
 These types of tossups ask for a theme or element that is present in a number of different works ([[common link]]).
-<blockquote style="font-family: serif; max-width: 50em;">
+{{qq|
-<b>This event is the subject of a “philosophical poem” by Sir Richard Blackmore. A dream in which a shepherd was commanded to sing about this event led to “Caedmon’s Hymn,” and it is depicted as the framing of a “vast petrific” roof in ''The Book of Urizen''. Raphael says it occurred after the expulsion of rebel angels in Book 7 of (*)</b> ''Paradise Lost''. For 10 points, name this cosmogonic event also described in the Book of Genesis. (ICT)
+<b>This event is the subject of a “philosophical poem” by Sir Richard Blackmore. A dream in which a shepherd was commanded to sing about this event led to “Caedmon’s Hymn,” and it is depicted as the framing of a “vast petrific” roof in ''The Book of Urizen''. Raphael says it occurred after the expulsion of rebel angels in Book 7 of (*)</b> ''Paradise Lost''. For 10 points, name this cosmogonic event also described in the Book of Genesis.|cite=ICT}}
 [[Category:Subjects]]

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 '''Literature''' (or '''lit''' for short) is a major academic subject in the quizbowl [[distribution]]. In [[ACF]] and similar [[distribution]]s, literature questions typically take up about 20 percent of the questions in a given [[packet]]. Together with [[science]] and [[history]], literature is one of the [[Big Three]] categories.
-Literature questions are typically written on any/all fictional work from ancient times to the present, though philosophical dialogues and religious/mythological writings are often separated out into [[RMP]]. However, [[NAQT]] includes mythology and religious literature as subcategories of literature rather than splitting them out. The literature category is usually subdivided by culture (American, British, European, and World literature being the usual divisions) and by type of literature (prose, drama, and poetry, with prose including novels and short stories.) Questions or [[clue]]s on literary criticism are also usually grouped under the literature distribution. Pop culture books (''The Da Vinci Code'', etc.) children's literature (''Harry Potter'', etc.), and sci-fi/fantasy (''A Game of Thrones'', ''Ender's Game'', etc.) are generally ''not'' considered literature and are instead grouped as [[trash]], although NAQT includes children's literature and young adult literature in its literature distribution in its high school and middle school questions.
+Literature questions are typically written on any/all fictional work from ancient times to the present, though philosophical dialogues and religious/mythological writings are often separated out into [[RMP]]. (However, [[NAQT]]'s distribution unusually includes mythology and religious literature as subcategories of literature rather than splitting them out.) The literature category is usually subdivided by culture (American, British, European, and World literature being the usual divisions) and/or by type of literature (prose, drama, and poetry, with prose including novels and short stories). Questions or [[clue]]s on literary criticism ("lit crit") are also usually grouped under the literature distribution.
-== Types of Literature Tossups ==
+Not all questions that happen to be about books are considered literature. Pop culture books (''The Da Vinci Code'', etc.), children's literature (''Harry Potter'', etc.), and sci-fi/fantasy (''A Game of Thrones'', ''Ender's Game'', etc.) are generally ''not'' considered literature and are instead grouped as [[trash]], although NAQT includes children's literature and young adult literature in its literature distribution in its high school and middle school questions.
 === Work ===
 The answer in these questions is a single literary work.
-<br>
-<small>The narrator of this book journeys past Saturn with an angel to show him a house where chained monkeys tear off and devour each others’ limbs and a mill containing the skeletal body of Aristotle’s Analytics. Near the end of this book, the narrator describes seeing a figure in a flame of fire who tells an angel that Jesus “was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules,” causing the Angel to embrace the fire and arise as Elijah. It begins with the invocation “Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burden’d air; / Hungry clouds swag on the deep,” and includes a series of proverbs such as “the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” This book claims “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite,” and calls Milton “a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it.” This satire of the works of Swedenborg identifies the first title location with passivity and the second with energy. For 10 points, name this illuminated book by William Blake which reverses orthodox conceptions of the Christian afterlife. (2011 ACF Nationals)</small>
+<blockquote style="font-family: serif; max-width: 50em;">
 === Author ===
-Author-based tossups give descriptions of a number of different works by a single author. Excessive use of biographical clues is discouraged.<br>
+Author-based tossups give descriptions of a number of different works by a single author. Excessive use of [[biographical clues]] is discouraged.
-<small>This poet described a "luminary clock against the sky" proclaiming the time to be "neither wrong nor right" in one poem. His poem "The Lesson for Today" is the source of his epitaph, "I had a lover's quarrel with the world." This author of "Acquainted With the Night" wrote of how "Edensank to grief" and how "dawn goes down to day" in a poem about Nature's "hardest (*) hue to hold"and presented two possible ends of the world in his "Fire and Ice". This author of "Nothing Gold Can Stay"predicted that he'd be "telling this with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence" in a poem about a choice made in a yellow wood. For 10 points, name this New England-based poet who wrote "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". (2012 PACE NSC)</small>
 === Common Link ===
-These types of tossups ask for a theme or element that is present in a number of different works.<br>
+These types of tossups ask for a theme or element that is present in a number of different works ([[common link]]).
 [[Category:Subjects]]

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 === Work ===
 The answer in these questions is a single literary work.
 === Author ===
-Author-based tossups give descriptions of a number of different works by a single author. Excessive use of biographical clues is discouraged.
+Author-based tossups give descriptions of a number of different works by a single author. Excessive use of biographical clues is discouraged.<br>
 === Common Link ===
-These types of tossups ask for a theme or element that is present in a number of different works.
+These types of tossups ask for a theme or element that is present in a number of different works.<br>
 [[Category:Subjects]]