Literature
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What are characteristics of Modernist literature, fiction in particular?
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77
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What does my brother mean when he says he's too ensconced in his studies to look for a girlfriend?
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78
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My grandpa complained about a bunch of politicians making what he called chin music. Did he mean they were in a loud band?
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79
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What is melodrama?
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80
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In Dracula, what's a missal?
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81
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In the terms abject poverty and abject misery, what does abject mean?
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In Moby-Dick, what does craven mean?
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83
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What does cicatrize mean?
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84
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What is a noisome smell" in Tolstoy's War and Peace?"
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85
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What is an apostasy, from the George Bernard Shaw play, Man and Superman?
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86
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In Jane Eyre, what's syncope?
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I just read Dracula. What's the forcemeat in Jonathan Harker's journal?
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Can the word stern mean more than one thing?
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89
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Where is Yoknapatawpha county?
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90
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What does smouch mean?
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I'm supposed to write a comparison of Hektor and Achilles from Homer's The Iliad, but I don't know where to start.
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92
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How do you pronounce quay? And what does it mean, anyway?
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93
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What are some examples of paradox in the novel Frankenstein?
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In Ivanhoe, what does mammock mean?
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95
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What does rummage mean?
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96
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Is a mummer some type of religious person?
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Some guy I don't like told his friend I was acting all demure. What does that mean?
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When I complained about our cafeteria food, my biology teacher told me he wished they'd serve agarics. Was he talking about some kind of dessert?
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99
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Where did the name Of Mice and Men come from?
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What genre would you consider the book, The Outsiders?
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