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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?

What qualities of character does the Wife of Bath claim when she declares, “For certainly, I’m all Venerian / In feeling, and my heart is Martian” (lines 615–616)?

At certain points when the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale are interrupted, the reader becomes aware of the framing narrative (the pilgrimage). Which of the following characters does not interrupt the Wife of Bath?

What crime is committed by the knight who is the protagonist in the Wife of Bath’s Tale?

At the conclusion of this section of the poem, Hrothgar makes a long speech to Beowulf, in which he promises friendship and other rewards to Beowulf, acknowledges that warrior’s valorous deeds, and outlines what he sees as the best attributes of a noble leader. To furnish a contrast, Hrothgar refers at length to which figure, who is the very opposite of a good leader.