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Questions regarding the meaning of certain terms or phrases used in a work of literature. If your question concerns the symbolic significance of something whose surface meaning is clear, use the [symbolism] tag instead. Please add specific tags as well: for the author (if known), the language (if not English), and either the work itself (if long) or the [poetry] or [short-stories] tags for short works.
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In Kerouac's On the Road, what is "it" that the country girl at the bus stop is missing?
Whatever it was might implies a mystery about it, but it might also imply a number of unspecified choices.
I can make sense of this phrase by linking it to "a kind of chagrin that reached back generat …
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Paragraph from Wuthering Heights: "Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold..."
Previously - and still in some dialects of English - dinner had this meaning:
dinner noun
1 a : the principal meal of the day
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinner
Whether this largest meal …
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Meaning of 'Yawl write, hear?'
You've got it right.
As you've recognized, this is dialect.
Yawl - this is a less common way of spelling the dialectical y'all, which is used as the second person plural.
Hear - this is a shortened fo …
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