Oedipus Rex
The mountain on which Oedipus was left as a baby.
What is Cithaeron?
A three-line stanza.
What is a tercet?
Prodigious birth of love it is to me/That I should love a loathed enemy.
What is iambic meter?
Happy as Larry.
What is 'very happy'?
My house (Sarah, Noro, Mulchat, Jeoji or Geomun?).
What is Noro?
What is Merope?
A pause in the middle of a line of poetry.
What is a caesura?
Break, break, break...
What is spondaic meter?
The elephant in the room.
What is 'the obvious thing that no one is mentioning'?
The job my brother has.
What is a sailor?
What is a laurel wreath?
A 'ck' or 'g' sound.
What is a guttural sound?
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...
What is trochaic meter?
Over my dead body.
What is 'I will not allow that' or 'that will never happen'?
The subject I studied for my undergraduate degree.
What is philosophy?
The image the Chorus uses to describe Oedipus, expressing how they want him to 'steer' them safely through the 'storm'.
What is a helmsman?
The rhyme scheme of an Elizabethan sonnet.
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks...
What is dactylic meter?
Two sandwiches short of a picnic.
What is 'stupid' or 'mad'?
The number of full academic years I have taught at NLCS.
What is 2?
The name for arguing that something cannot be true because it is not likely.
What is an argument from probability?
Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.
What is anapaest?
Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green...
What is anapaestic meter?
Get off your high horse.
What is 'stop being judgmental' or 'don't be so superior'?
The year group to which my tutor group belong.
What is Year 8?