Literature Beta

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Is there a term for epic poetry’s detailed, successive introductions of multiple characters?
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Who are all the Priestesses and Gods?
Awarded Apr 12 at 13:45
How many members of Captain Flint's crew are known?
Awarded Apr 11 at 11:33
Does the Birling family (and Gerald) represent the 7 deadly sins and/or the story of the pharaoh?
Awarded Apr 9 at 14:35
What is the meaning of the sentence “You are--aren't you?” in this novel by John Galsworthy?
Awarded Apr 9 at 0:34
Could “mark” in “London” by William Blake be meant as a name?
Awarded Apr 4 at 1:27
How does this joke (?) of Gonff's work?
Awarded Apr 3 at 9:55
What is the significance of “Jonathan” in Strange and Norrell?
Awarded Apr 3 at 9:06
What do superscript circles mean in poetry?
Awarded Apr 2 at 23:20
What did Melville mean by the “Pythagorean Maxim” in “Moby Dick”?
Awarded Apr 1 at 10:41
Why was “a world” used in this sentence of Melville?
Awarded Mar 30 at 22:27
Which book by Steven Brust has “A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be”?
Awarded Mar 30 at 15:51
What did Melville mean by the “Pythagorean Maxim” in “Moby Dick”?
Awarded Mar 28 at 18:16
Does the Dime Lions' name have a deeper significance?
Awarded Mar 28 at 18:02
What does “hawk” mean in the context below?
Awarded Mar 28 at 13:02
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Awarded Mar 28 at 10:42
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Awarded Mar 28 at 2:26
Where is Napoleon during the battle of the cowshed?
Awarded Mar 25 at 22:16
Is “I'm glad you think it's funny” meant sarcastically or literally?
Awarded Mar 22 at 23:27
Short story: an executioner, uncaring to convicts, discovers a watch that he gifted to his son
Awarded Mar 22 at 13:12
Penelope's Letter in The Shadow Of The Wind
Awarded Mar 21 at 7:56
Why did Mama put the poison in his tea?
Awarded Mar 19 at 8:46
Identify a children's story about a little girl who collected items, had a monster in the basement, and solved a dog-napping mystery!
Awarded Mar 16 at 11:32
What does “But… They went home” mean in Maya Angelou's “They Went Home”?
Awarded Mar 14 at 20:21
What is the meaning of “Both wry with the laboured ease of loss.” and “And of this circumstance… Its silence silences.” in 'A Photograph'?
Awarded Mar 14 at 14:05
Meaning of “The blushing apricot, and woolly peach. Hang on thy walls, that every child may reach.”
Awarded Mar 9 at 4:31
Clarifying a line from “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”
Awarded Mar 7 at 11:56
Dracula Cultural Anxieties
Awarded Mar 6 at 22:58
Does the Birling family (and Gerald) represent the 7 deadly sins and/or the story of the pharaoh?
Awarded Mar 5 at 4:07
Did “equator” have a different meaning from its common one in 19th-century English literature?
Awarded Mar 2 at 20:20
What is the “Isle of the Blessed” and why should a girl see it before marriage?
Awarded Feb 28 at 11:16
What is the “Isle of the Blessed” and why should a girl see it before marriage?
Awarded Feb 27 at 21:11
Did the Lord of the Flies have any kind of religious reference more specific than just the Devil?
Awarded Feb 23 at 17:33
Since when has Shakespeare's “Scottish play” been considered unlucky?
Awarded Feb 23 at 13:17
Why does “The Tragedy of Afghanistan” suddenly switch to second-person in the second-to-last verse?
Awarded Feb 23 at 0:16
What is the meaning of “broads” in Hemingway's short story Fifty Grand?
Awarded Feb 21 at 9:11
What is the dialect in “The Origin of White Folks” and what does it add to the poem?
Awarded Feb 20 at 0:18
What would it mean for a 19th-century German soldier to “wear the cross”?
Awarded Feb 19 at 15:03
What is the “color of boom”?
Awarded Feb 18 at 23:35
Robot Beings who are hunted for fuel who say “Toot Toot” to each other
Awarded Feb 16 at 6:18
What was the unspeakable act that V.S. Naipaul committed while at Oxford University?
Awarded Feb 16 at 5:33
Why couldn't Mr Dobbins become a doctor in “Tom Sawyer”?
Awarded Feb 9 at 19:12
Why couldn't Mr Dobbins become a doctor in “Tom Sawyer”?
Awarded Feb 8 at 6:45
What did Tara Westover mean by comparing her childhood family accident with “choices coalescing into sediment”?
Awarded Feb 3 at 3:42
What is the point hidden behind Kahlil Gibran's poem “The Three Ants”?
Awarded Feb 2 at 9:07
In A Whiter Shade of Pale, is the miller's tale a reference to the Miller's tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?
Awarded Jan 28 at 7:26
What does A. E. C. denote in the poem about Edward Anti-Teller?
Awarded Jan 28 at 2:21
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Awarded Jan 27 at 4:11
Identify a Faust quote about being careful when calling upon bad spirits
Awarded Jan 26 at 9:03
Is Ant-Man a Myrmidon?
Awarded Jan 24 at 13:46
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Awarded Jan 22 at 16:51
Quote source - “if memories could bleed, if dreams could scream”
Awarded Jan 15 at 13:36
What does “ceremony of innocence” mean In “The Second Coming”?
Awarded Jan 12 at 16:25
What does “soul” mean in “My Face for the World to See”?
Awarded Jan 10 at 21:50
Paperback book about a falsely arrested man living in the wilderness who raises wolf cubs
Awarded Jan 8 at 21:42
How much time did one canto in Dante's Divine Comedy represent (if any)?
Awarded Jan 5 at 19:49
How did Snape figure out the stuff he had written in his Advanced Potion-Making book?
Awarded Jan 5 at 13:50
Children's book in which there seems to be another person on the opposite side of their mirror
Awarded Jan 3 at 10:20
How do you become aware “of the earth as poetry”?
Awarded Jan 1 at 22:02
Did “equator” have a different meaning from its common one in 19th-century English literature?
Awarded Dec 28 '20 at 16:12
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