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1.	What are alliteration and assonance?
2.	What is the longest word in the English language?
3.	When writing a paper, what do I do to the title of a book? Do I underline it or italicize it?
4.	What is a cleft sentence?
5.	What is the difference between narration and first person?
6.	My teacher thinks I plagiarized an essay; what should I tell him?
7.	What does ignominy mean? (From Shelley's Frankenstein)
8.	What does pecuniary mean? (From Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities)
9.	How do I analyze Kant's philosophy?
10.	Why do some authors use the word an before all words that start with an H? Is this form of writing correct?
11.	What is an apostrophe in Macbeth?
12.	What are the humanities?
13.	How would you use the word antecede in a sentence?
14.	Could you please explain the difference between affect and effect?
15.	Will mentioning my race in my college essay increase my chances of getting in?
16.	Is my summer vacation to Italy a good topic for my college essay? (I have pictures, too.)
17.	How do I go about writing a good thesis statement?
18.	What do people mean when they talk about information in the public domain?
19.	What's the big deal about plagiarism, anyway?
20.	What does it mean to ululate? (From Golding's Lord of the Flies)
21.	Is there a difference between envy and jealousy?
22.	Is ambrosia a salad? (From Homer's The Odyssey)
23.	What is a harbinger? (From Shakespeare's Macbeth)
24.	What does it mean to be refractory? (From Dickens' Great Expectations)
25.	Can you define the words prostate and prostrate?

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