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Literature English

04/25/19

Which sentence is the best example of a thesis statement for a literary analysis of Romeo and Juliet?
A. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare demonstrates how the hatred between the Montagues and Capulets leads to the deaths of young lovers.B. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses the... more
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Literature Theatre Theater

04/25/19

What does it mean to hide your feelings especially feelings of love
In Literature, when a Person Hides his/her Emotion of Love to someone else Wat is said to be the mood of the story
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04/24/19

Comparing frequency of word use across Shakespeare's plays?
There are numerous concordances that list all of the words, and their frequency of use within each of Shakespeare's plays. However, I am interested in the presence and frequency of use of words... more
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04/24/19

What is the symbolism of Ransom's heel wound?
In *Perelandra*, the second book of CS Lewis's planets trilogy, the protagonist Ransom is wounded in the heel by the Un-Man/Weston. We learn in the third book, *That Hideous Strength*, that the... more
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Literature English

04/24/19

In the poem “The Foot” by Alice Jones explain the meaning of the poem through close reading. Any literary elements??
Our improbable support, erected on the osseus architecture of the calcaneous, talus, cuboid, navicular, cuneiforms, metatarsals, phalanges, a plethora of hinges,all strung together by... more
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Literature William Shakespeare

04/24/19

How did Theseus woo Hippolyta by doing her injuries?
In *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, Theseus tells Hippolyta: > THESEUS: > Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword And won thy love doing thee injuries, But I will wed thee in another key, With... more
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Literature Homer The Iliad Meaning

04/24/19

What is a bootless oath in Book X of the Illiad?
In Book X (10) of The Illiad Hector (edition: Britannica Great Books of the Western World (The Illiad and The Odessey together), rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler) swears the following... more
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Literature Shakespeare

04/23/19

what are two examples of subjects shakespeare wrote about that makes his works seem contemporary, or modern
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Literature William Shakespeare

04/23/19

Did Shakespeare write his own stage directions?
It's [well known](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare's_plays#Shakespeare_and_the_textual_problem) that Shakespeare had no part in publishing the text of his own plays - indeed, many of them... more
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04/23/19

In "Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote" is Menard an analogy for a critical lens?
In *Pierre Menard, Author of The Quixote* by Jorge Luis Borges, the narrator of the work talks about how when he read *Don Quixote* after having been told that Pierre Menard had rewritten it with... more
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04/22/19

What does Old Major in Animal Farm represent?
Old Major, the elder pig in *Animal Farm*, seems to have a different role than the younger ones. I believe he has a different view, but after he dies, the young pigs don't follow his legacy. What... more
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04/20/19

Was Shakespeare a religious fanatic?
In the play *The Merchant of Venice*, Shylock is pretty much disdained and humiliated only because he was a Jew. His thirst for revenge against Antonio is fuelled by the fact that Antonio... more
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04/20/19

What are the "dark Satanic mills" in Blake's Jerusalem?
The short poem *Jerusalem* by William Blake - not to be confused with his much longer epic poem of the same title; I'm talking about the "did those feet in ancient times" one - contains the... more
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04/20/19

In the Hollow Crown speech, what does the line "Cover your heads" imply?
In the "hollow crown" speech in *Richard II*, there is a line with the words "Cover your heads". I need a paraphrase for this line. What does Shakespeare imply by this line in the context of this... more
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04/19/19

Why does Susan say her "eyes are hard" when suffering an emotional breakdown in the Waves (Virginia Woolf)?
>"I love," said Susan, "and I hate. I desire one thing only. My eyes are hard. Jinny's eyes break into a thousand lights. Rhoda's are like those pale flowers to which moths come in the evening.... more
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04/19/19

Does this passage in King Lear develop the theme of compassion or truth? Also is the structure prose, blank verse, or rhyming iambic pentameter?
This is from [Act 5 Scene 3 of *King Lear*](http://shakespeare.mit.edu/lear/lear.5.3.html): >A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all! <br /> I might have saved her. Now she’s gone for... more
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Literature English

04/18/19

Provide a summative analysis of "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe
Your response should be a minimum of five complete sentences and use supporting evidence from the poem.
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Literature English Grammar

04/18/19

How can I fix my participial phrase?
I have to create a "supersentence" which consists of an independent clause, adverb clause, noun clause, gerund phrase, prepositional phrase, infinitive phrase, and participial phrase. I have all of... more
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Literature

04/18/19

What does "The Edge of Doom" mean in Robert Frost's *Into My Own*?
The following stanza is from Robert Frost's *Into My Own*: > One of my wishes is that those dark trees,  So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,  Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask... more
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04/18/19

What's the significance of "Oranges and Lemons" in 1984?
The popular London nursery rhyme [Oranges and Lemons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemons) is quoted and partially recited several times throughout *1984*. Winston learns about it from... more
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Literature

04/17/19

What is the relationship between Heart of Darkness (T.S. Eliot) and The Hollow Men (Joseph Conrad)?
T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, unusually, opens with a quote from a Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: > Mistah Kurtz— he dead. In most printings of the poem that I've seen, this single... more
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04/17/19

Meaning of "We make the wise distinction still, soever made in vain" in a poem by Dickinson?
[A poem](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/We_send_the_Wave_to_find_the_Wave_%E2%80%94) by Emily Dickinson: > We send the Wave to find the Wave— An Errand so divine, The Messenger enamored... more
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04/17/19

Doesn't Burns' use of parallelism reinforce "My Heart's in the Highlands" visual images?
Here is "My Heart's in the Highlands" by Robert Burns (https://www.bartleby.com/360/8/24.html). > My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart’s in > the Highlands a-chasing... more
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04/16/19

What is the significance/symbolism of the Cyclical book being cyclical in "The Library of Babel"?
In *The Library of Babel* by Jorge Luis Borges, the speaker describes the cyclical book as > (The mystics claim that their ecstasy reveals to them a circular chamber containing a great circular... more
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04/16/19

What is the greater meaning of the thrush?
In *1984*, Orwell devotes a few lines to a singing thrush that lands several feet away from Julia and Winston during their first secret meeting. > A thrush had alighted on a bough not five... more
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