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What happens at the end of Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby?
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What is the meaning of the epilogue in Blood Meridian?
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What's the technique in 'To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus.' from Macbeth?
Awarded Oct 30 at 17:18
Does Gandalf ever say this in the book "The Hobbit", or is it made up for the movie?
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What is the distinction between "literary fiction" vs. "popular fiction"?
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What kind of language features appear in Lady Macbeth's line "too full o' the milk of human kindness"?
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Why did Shakespeare write in iambic pentameter?
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Is Simon epileptic?
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Who wrote a specific poem in the movie 'Dead Poets Society'?
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Nineteen Eighty Four - the chocolate ration demonstrations
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What is The Princess Bride's "reunion scene" that you had to write to the publisher for?
Awarded Jul 27 at 1:42
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 Jul 19 at 5:51
The significance of Lucky's speech in 'Waiting for Godot'
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What is the meaning of the Gaelic lines in the song "Tír na nÓg"?
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What are the "old euphemisms" in The Great Gatsby?
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Does Winston Smith die at the end of 1984?
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Summer Wine: what was the 'unfamiliar line' with which the girl reassured her lover?
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How old is Romeo?
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Why did Mama put the poison in his tea?
Awarded Jan 3 at 9:45
Do I need to read the Redwall books in any specific order?
Awarded Nov 28, 2022 at 4:09
Who is the falcon, and who the falconer?
Awarded Oct 30, 2022 at 12:55
What is Tom Bombadil's importance in The Lord of the Rings?
Awarded Oct 23, 2022 at 8:31
Is Julián Carax based on a real author?
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Origin and significance of E-I-E-I-O in the Old MacDonald song
Awarded Sep 14, 2022 at 22:48
"I've seen your flag on the marble arch"
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Meaning of a 19 century joke printed in a newspaper, with punchline "Oh, mother, what a good job the cat’s a black one"
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Do the female Dwarves in Tolkien's Legendarium also have beards?
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What's the deal with Bilbo being some kind of "burglar"?
Awarded Aug 12, 2022 at 22:05
What is Hobbes?
Awarded Aug 10, 2022 at 8:15
Why did Shams refuse to sleep with Kimya?
Awarded Jul 13, 2022 at 13:41
Were all of Shakespeare's plays fully in iambic pentameter?
Awarded Jun 8, 2022 at 17:15
What were the three clues mentioned at the end of Agatha Christie's And There Were None?
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Why did Montresor want to kill Fortunato?
Awarded Apr 20, 2022 at 11:31
How far ahead did J.K. Rowling plan Harry Potter?
Awarded Apr 16, 2022 at 23:21
How much experience does Mark Haddon have with the autism spectrum?
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What is the relationship between Heart of Darkness and The Hollow Men?
Awarded Feb 14, 2022 at 15:25
In what sense did Yossarian love the chaplain?
Awarded Feb 7, 2022 at 14:36
How many sailors from Odysseus' crew survived the Odyssey?
Awarded Jan 23, 2022 at 14:51
Meaning of "cloudless at dawn" and connection with Shakespeare's head?
Awarded Nov 30, 2021 at 5:45
Why didn't The Last Battle mention Susan's reaction to her family's death?
Awarded Nov 26, 2021 at 12:16
What does "the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty" mean here?
Awarded Nov 19, 2021 at 21:41
What did Gray mean by "where ignorance is bliss, / 'tis folly to be wise"?
Awarded Oct 21, 2021 at 14:01
What does "entailment" mean in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Awarded Oct 20, 2021 at 23:20
What is the difference between a Novelette, Novella and Novel?
Awarded Oct 16, 2021 at 17:21
Could you actually go around the world in 80 days?
Awarded Oct 2, 2021 at 13:50
What does the phrase "the silent imputation of parsimony" mean in The Gift of the Magi by O.Henry?
Awarded Sep 30, 2021 at 18:06
How did they track Llewelyn Moss in "No Country for Old Men"?
Awarded Sep 25, 2021 at 22:30
Why is the king 'baffled' in "Hallelujah"?
Awarded Sep 19, 2021 at 18:57
Why does the narrator in "Stopping by Woods" stop by the woods?
Awarded Aug 4, 2021 at 11:16
Was Holden Caulfield molested as a child?
Awarded Jul 17, 2021 at 5:41
How could sixty cents of $1.87 be in pennies?
Awarded Jun 29, 2021 at 0:50
Why did George Orwell name himself after the River Orwell?
Awarded Jun 16, 2021 at 15:36
Does the Birling family (and Gerald) represent the 7 deadly sins and/or the story of the pharaoh?
Awarded May 15, 2021 at 16:31
Does Dr. Manhattan have free will?
Awarded May 5, 2021 at 18:19
Why does Portia say this to Bassanio in Act III Scene 2 of The Merchant of Venice?
Awarded May 1, 2021 at 2:54
What's the meaning of the text in the scroll that the Prince of Arragon finds in the silver casket in Act 2, Scene 9 of The Merchant of Venice?
Awarded Apr 12, 2021 at 23:27
What is the symbolism of Atticus killing the mad dog?
Awarded Apr 8, 2021 at 20:40
What is the meaning of these lines about love from "Desiderata"?
Awarded Mar 28, 2021 at 12:51
What did Scout mean when she said "It takes a woman to do that kind of work"?
Awarded Mar 18, 2021 at 3:48
Is there a central theme in I, Robot?
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