Facts | Who's the Speaker | Literary Devices | Themes |
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What is Tigris?
The river by which Eden is located
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Who is Adam?
"For solitude sometimes is the best society" (IX, 249)
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What is an epic simile?
"As one who long in populous city pent
where houses thick and sewers annoy the air forth issuing on a summer's morn to breather among the pleasant villagers and farms" (IX, 445-8) |
What is vanity and lust?
Name the two deadly sins written in this book
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What is Anarctic, the Ocean at Darien, Ganges, Inus, over Pontus, the pool Maeotis?
Name at least one place Satan traveled to find Paradise
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Who is Satan?
"To satisfy the sharp desire I had of tasting those fair apples" (584-6)
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What is an allusion?
"than the wrath
of stern Achilles on his foe pursued thrice fugitive about troy wall or rage" (IX, 15-17) |
The ease of Satan persuading Eve
What actions further agree females are the weaker sex?
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What is Serpent?
The animal that Satan becomes
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Who is Eve?
"Our reason is our law" (653-4)
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What is irony?
"But that thou my shouldst my firmness therefore doubt
to God or three because we have a foe may tempt it I expected not to hear" (IX, 279-81) |
What is the importance of obedience to the higher power?
The theme associated with the punishment for eating the apple from the Forbidden Tree
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