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The close reading essay should not include any additional sources except for the literary text.

In the title “To His Coy Mistress,” Andrew Marvell’s use of the word “coy” suggests the poem’s auditor is

To what does Richard Crashaw compare the wounds of Christ?

In “The Sun Rising,” Donne writes that “All here in one bed lay. / She is all states, and all princes I,” which suggests what juxtaposition?

What is the first issue from death human beings experience, according to Donne in “Death’s Duell”?

Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey introduced the sonnet form in England by translating whose poetry?

What endearment does Elizabeth use to address Sir Walter Ralegh?

Sir Thomas More says that it would be hard “to find anything so plain that it should need no gloss at all” (152). To what does the word gloss refer?

How is Margery Kempe’s account of her life recorded?

After King Arthur is wounded in battle by his son, Sir Mordred, he asks the good knight Sir Bedivere to cast his sword Excalibur into the water. What is the result of this action?