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1. What are alliteration and assonance?
2. I saw some old guy in a soldier's uniform selling fake red flowers. He said it was for Veterans Day. What's the connection?
3. Which of the following literary devices is used in these poetic lines by John Milton?
4. What does the poem "Summer Sun" by Robert Louis Stevenson really mean?
5. What is the overall meaning of the poem "Before The Sun," by Charles Mungoshi?
6. What is a found poem?
7. What did Alice Walker mean in the essay "Beauty"?
8. I would like to understand the poem "Blight" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Please help.
9. What are the humanities?
10. Who is the "lady" that Robert Plant speaks of in the song "Stairway to Heaven"?
11. Was Odysseus the one who planned the Trojan horse, in the Trojan War?
12. Poetry gives me problems. How can I figure out what poems are about?
13. Is there an easy way to understand The Canterbury Tales?
14. What is the significance of Grendel's cave in Beowulf?
15. What can you tell me about Grendel from Beowulf?
16. The old man and the young wife — what's up with story plots like this?
17. What part does vengeance play in The Odyssey?
18. What kind of a woman is Penelope in The Odyssey?
19. How does Frankenstein relate to Paradise Lost?
20. What is blank verse and how does Shakespeare use it?
21. How does King Arthur die?
22. Why does Odysseus decide to listen to the Sirens, in The Odyssey, by Homer?
23. What does prose and poetry mean? What's the difference?
24. Why does the legend of King Arthur hold such a powerful grip over us?
25. What are the metrical features in poetry?
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