Literature
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I saw some old guy in a soldier's uniform selling fake red flowers. He said it was for Veterans Day. What's the connection? |
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I was kind of flirting with this really cute boy when my teacher told me to stop palavering. Did she want me to stop flirting or stop talking? |
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My grandmother says when she was a kid in China, she became Catholic because of the Mary Knows nuns. I tried to look that up on the Internet but couldn't find anything. Can you help? |
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In The Count of Monte Cristo, does cupidity mean love? I'm guessing that because of, you know, Cupid . . . Valentine's Day. |
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My theater teacher called me a name the other day. I don't think it was supposed to be a compliment. What's a somnambulist, anyway? |
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Why was Tartuffe such a jerk? |
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To Kill a Mockingbird has this word fey in it, but I don't know what it means. Does it mean short lived or fleeting? |
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In Pride and Prejudice, what's "probity" — does it mean being nosy? |
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I never met my grandma, who my mom says lives in a hovel and wants her to move in with us. Then I saw that word in Frankenstein. What's a hovel? I thought it was like a place that had room service. |
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I have a friend who said something about phantasmagoric. That's not real, is it? |
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Which of the following literary devices is used in these poetic lines by John Milton? |
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In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," what does noblesse oblige mean? |
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What is love? |
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What is suggested by the coin image in Book II of A Tale of Two Cities? |
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I'm reading Candide, by Voltaire, and one of the dudes is an Anabaptist. What's that? |
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What does the poem "Summer Sun" by Robert Louis Stevenson really mean? |
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What did Shakespeare want to say about his beloved in Sonnet 18? |
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Who was the last person to see Juliet alive? |
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What is the Catechism? |
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What is the overall meaning of the poem "Before The Sun," by Charles Mungoshi? |
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What does ague mean? |
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Is there a reference to venereal disease in Romeo and Juliet? |
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What is fantasy fiction? |
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What is the exposition in Othello? |
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Who is the character Susan in Romeo and Juliet? |
