'Deformation' means distorting or disfiguring the shape of something. Its opposite is 'wholeness' meaning the state of being complete or unbroken.
An 'epitaph' is a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died especially as an inscription on a tombstone.
The 'dog days' of summer are the hottest and most sultry part of the season.
'Orphan' is a common gender noun because it can refer to either a male or a female child whose parents are dead.
The Way of the World is a famous Restoration comedy written by English playwright William Congreve in 1700.
This famous line is spoken by the character Satan in John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" (Book I).
D. H. Lawrence was an English writer. Oscar Wilde James Joyce and Jonathan Swift were all prominent Irish writers.
A collective noun refers to a group of people or things. 'Herd' refers to a group of cattle.
'Populous' is the adjective form meaning 'having a large population'. 'Popular' means liked by many people.
'Marrying' is the object of the verb 'contemplated'. A verb form ending in '-ing' that functions as a noun is a gerund.
No Second Troy is a famous poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats written about his muse Maud Gonne.
John Keats was a Romantic poet (early 19th century). The others are major Modernist figures (late 19th and early 20th centuries).
The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy which won the Booker Prize in 1997.
One Hundred Years of Solitude was written by Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez. The others were written by English authors.
'Verbose' means using more words than needed. Therefore a speech with too many words is a verbose speech.
Ozymandias is a famous sonnet written by English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Moby-Dick; or The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.
This is the famous concluding line of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind".
O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter a famous American short-story writer known for his surprise endings.
The setting for Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet" is the royal castle of Elsinore in Denmark.