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What is the “a-” prefix in “a-flying” and “a-getting” in Herrick's “To the Virgins”?
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Why was Fontane's copy of Thackeray's Vanity Fair confiscated by English customs?
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Is there a term for epic poetry’s detailed, successive introductions of multiple characters?
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About Sappho's epigram for the little girl Aithopia: first line (manuscript tradition and experts' take), and authorship
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What are the “torch dance” and “garter dance”, in 19th-century Germany?
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What is the meaning of “the drumstick” in this novel by John Galsworthy?
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What is so special about a fruit being in season for eight days?
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What was the public's initial reaction to Virginia Woolf's Orlando?
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What does “vamos the ranch” mean in this Mark Twain short story?
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What is the “Isle of the Blessed” and why should a girl see it before marriage?
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Chilli peppers in fifteenth-century India?
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What meter are “I lik the bred” poems in?
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Why is the title of “Le Morte d'Arthur” in French if the book is in English?
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What does “Maybe it's a Big Horse I'm Morporkian” mean?
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No mayonnaise in Ireland?
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Did Benjamin Franklin mix up his friends?
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What does “skimmish” mean, in this eye dialect?
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When and why did “No man is an island” start being regarded as a poem?
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What does “But… They went home” mean in Maya Angelou's “They Went Home”?
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What were the parts of each of the six Seuss books that ceased publication in March 2021 that were problematic?
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“My father declared he should invent a slip button”
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What does “Bool-var” mean in “In the Midst of Alarms”?
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What makes a poem a Grook?
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Since when has Shakespeare's “Scottish play” been considered unlucky?
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What does “if the court knows herself” mean?
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What was the unspeakable act that V.S. Naipaul committed while at Oxford University?
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How long is the Nijni-Novgorod trade fair?
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Medical school that brainwashes students, run by drug company that does unethical experiments
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What does the raven say to Ged when he first enters the school at Roke?
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Why couldn't Mr Dobbins become a doctor in “Tom Sawyer”?
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Young adult fantasy book about a girl with gray eyes and powers related to metal
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In The Mezzotint by M. R. James, what is a “Door Bible”?
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How do these lines in Shakespeare's Sonnet 151 mean what they're supposed to?
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What is it with British occultism and Brussels sprouts?
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What did Dante mean by “Papè Satan, papè Satan aleppe” in the Inferno?
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, and Wayfarers All
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Did Gaiman and Pratchett troll an interviewer who thought they were religious fanatics?
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Are the Goosebumps books connected in any way?
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Goosebumps-esque story about a group of kids visiting an alternate black and white world
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What does the rose represent in “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner?
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What mechanism does David Weber use to ensure internal consistency of works in the shared Honorverse?
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Why would one of Germany's leading publishers publish a novel by Jewish writer Stefan Zweig in 1939?
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Is it reasonable to use the movie version of a book to interpret the book when the same author wrote both?
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Book about a boy who develops several accidentally destructive science projects
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Complicated name features in Wuthering Heights
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What are the 'holy' and 'broken' Hallelujahs?
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Were the Just William stories written for adults or children?
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Children’s poem about a boy stuck between the tracks on the underground
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Why does Tom Sawyer forget what “ransom” means?
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Why does Macbeth move to and fortify Dunsinane?
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In Ulysses, why does Stephen finally decide not to stay with Bloom?
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Short story that poked fun at certain authority figures (presidents or prime ministers) via implications of incompetence
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How can poetry be defined?
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Is the giant who carved the “Under Me” line Time?
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What does Dream's ruby represent?
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Did Shakespeare's audience believe Measure for Measure to be realistic?
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How autobiographical are Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books?
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Origin of “Good books are the warehouses of ideas”, attributed to H. G. Wells on commemorative £2 coin?
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Was Tess raped?
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What is King Darzin?
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