Round 9: Tossup 7

In a poem from this language, the speaker warns how “jealous fate” will turn people to ashes to “feed the roots of life.” One of “three fathers” of a movement in this language wrote the poetry collection Pigments. A “lousy pig” is told to beat it “At the end of daybreak” to begin a long (15[1])poem written in this language titled “Notebook of a Return to My Native Land.” Poetry in this language was the subject of the essay (*) Black Orpheus. (-5[1])Along with Léopold Senghor, Léon-Gontran Damas and Aimé Césaire used this language (10[1])to begin the Négritude movement. For 10 points, name this language used by 20th century poets from Martinique and Senegal. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: French [or française]
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-246100%17%0%82.50
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-133100%33%33%86.33
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13475%25%25%91.33
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-135100%40%0%80.80
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-243100%0%67%104.00
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-244100%50%0%72.25
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-302100%50%0%90.50