What is the typical meter of most poetry in English?

The scholar who edits Pale Fire hails from this country, where he was purportedly once the king.

A character of this name introduces readers to his two-dimensional world.

In Seven Types of Ambiguity, William Empson performs an elaborate close reading of a sonnet by this canonical author.

This poem by John Donne features an elaborate conceit featuring an insect.

What genre or mode derives from a Greek word that can be translated as, "saying one thing, but meaning another"?

Charles Kinbote is an enthusiast of this indoor sport.

In Flatland, the priestly class, the highest form of being, assumes this shape.

Basic English, as devised by the founder of close reading, I.A. Richards, features this many English words.

This character from Lydia Davis's collection, Break It Down, has many fears.

This rhetorical term is used when a part of something is used to signify the whole.

When he finally arrives at New Wye, the assassin Gradus suffers from this ailment, described comically by Nabokov as "liquid hell."

Which story in Break It Down reflects on the idea of untranslatability between languages?

According to Cleanth Brooks, all good literary works can be said to have this contradictory feature.

This famous essay by the French thinker, Roland Barthes, suggests that readers ultimately construct the meaning of texts.

"One Art," by Elizabeth Bishop, is written in what poetic form?

In the Haunted Barn, Hazel Shade sees this mysterious phenomenon floating in the air.

The higher classes in Flatland are able to perceive and recognize others' shapes using this skill or "art."

In "Ode on Melancholy," Keats compares joy to this fruit.

What is the name of the main database or search engine for literary scholarship?

A three-syllable poetic foot whose accents are [stressed] [unstressed] [unstressed], as in the word "catapult," is called what?

Charles Shade's poem refers to the I.P.H., which stands for what?

In "Mildred and the Oboe," how many female residents are there in the apartment building?

This famous book by I.A. Richards inaugurated the practice of close reading, and contained his students' interpretations of various short poems.

What are the first two lines of the poem, "Pale Fire"