1,098 Answered Questions for the topic literature

05/16/19

Benvolio and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet?
What do the characters of Benvolio and Mercutio in *Romeo and Juliet* symbolize, if anything? Mercutio's character mainly provides jokes, and then, in his hot-headedness, is slain by Tybalt.... more
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05/16/19

What sort of bookshops sell The Works of Aristotle?
In the beginning of The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis' narrator states: > However far I went I found only dingy lodging houses, small tobacconists, hoardings from which posters hung in rags,... more
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Literature English Act English

05/15/19

Characters can help us identify the ________ of a story.
A. ConflictB. StructureC. TitleD. Critique
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05/15/19

Why does Atticus admire Mrs. Dubose?
Scout and Jem hate Mrs. Dubose. They are afraid of her because she yells things at them and makes derogatory comments about their father when they walk by her house. After Jem cuts Mrs. Dubose's... more
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Literature English Shakespeare

05/15/19

How did Shakespeare influence modern day English?

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Literature English

05/14/19

The Great Gastby
In chapter 8, what two things keep nick awake at night? After he falls asleep what wakes him up in the morning?
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05/14/19

Who wrote the poem that begins "What have we not done for this country"?
About 15 years ago I read a popular history (in the sense of popular science, not popular politics) of the 20th century which includes a short poem that I believe went as follows: > What have... more
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05/14/19

What's polybdenum?
In *The Dharma Bums,* Ray buys "a polybdenum bottle, with screw top" at the Berkeley Ski Shop (chapter 14), saying he plans to use it "to carry honey up to the moutains" but that he mostly "used it... more
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Literature Symbolism Song Lyrics

05/14/19

What's the symbolism in The Twelve Days of Christmas?
The popular Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" has many different versions, but they're usually something along the lines of the following (final verse, which includes all the... more
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Literature Poetry R S Thomas

05/14/19

Why does only one of R. S. Thomas' poems conform to traditional poetic devices?
R.S. Thomas was a Welsh poet who worked between 1942 until his death in 2000. His poems are almost exclusively modern in structure, in the sense that they eschew meter and rhyme in favour of a more... more
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05/13/19

What does the Malvolio subplot add to Twelfth Night?
Most of Shakespeare's comedy *Twelfth Night* is about the group of main characters Viola, Sebastian, Orsino, and Olivia, and the affections requited and unrequited between them. But there's also a... more
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Literature English Esl/esol Esl

05/13/19

To kill morckingbird
What was boo Radley like as a teenager
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Literature English

05/13/19

To kill a mockingbird
How long has it been since boo Radley has been seen ?
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Literature English

05/13/19

What would be a current event that a character from Milkweed would be interested in?

This is about the book Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli.
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05/13/19

Meter and number of syllables per line in "The Raven"?
After reading some analysis of "The Raven", I've become confused about how syllables are counted. For example, in the second line: *Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore* A... more
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05/12/19

What does Holofernes deer epitaph from Love's Labour's Lost mean?
I find it a bit hard to understand this epitaph of the deer in *Love's Labour's Lost*. > The preyful princess pierced and prick'd a pretty pleasing pricket; > Some say a sore; but not a... more
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Literature Cinema Meaning Slang

05/11/19

Meaning of "garn" in My Fair Lady?
At the beginning of the My Fair Lady movie, there is a monologue of prof. Higgins like this: Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse Hear a Cornishman converse I'd rather hear a choir singing flat ... more
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Literature English Reading Book

05/10/19

Why has The Great Gatsby maintained a place in the canon of American literature?
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Literature

05/09/19

What is the symbolism of Atticus killing the mad dog in "To Kill A Mockingbird?"
So in *To Kill A Mockingbird*, Atticus kills a mad dog. He does it with one shot. Is there some more symbolism to this or is it just an event?
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05/08/19

What concept of love does Tolstoy suggest in Anna Karenina?
I know one of the characteristics of realistic works is they are mostly formulated as some independent studies of the life of society but, at the same time, I realise that the dominant approach to... more
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05/08/19

In Pride and Prejudice, what is meant by the phrase 'at York'?
In Chaper 20 of _Pride and Prejudice_, after Lizzy refuses to marry Mr Collins, Mrs Bennet says of her: > "There she comes... looking as unconcerned as may be, and caring no more for us than... more
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05/07/19

Meaning of "How can one admire a girl...so young she doesn't know how to bite her fingers"?
In a [book of short... more
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05/07/19

What does our awareness of Gatsby’s motivations and decisions affect our assessment?
Need to write a half page on this and include text from the book for evidence
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05/07/19

Were all of Shakespeare's plays fully in iambic pentameter?
Were the plays within The Complete Works of Shakespeare entirely in iambic pentameter? I seem to recall singing bits (when there were lyrics) from Twelfth Night and definitely from Much Ado About... more
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Literature English

05/07/19

In which lines of this excerpt from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol do we see a new, more remorseful aspect of Scrooge's character?
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