Students’ Questions about Literature Page 6

Jonathan Swift’s satirical commentary in Gulliver’s Travels remains relevant today because it is a timeless story about the human condition.

Dramatic irony is used extensively in Oedipus the King. The audience is aware of Oedipus’ true identity and his fate, while the characters in the play are not. This creates a sense of suspense and irony as the characters move closer and closer to the truth.

The reviewer most likely called Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass “a mass of rotten filth” because of the graphic and explicit sexual content present throughout the poems.

The Divine Comedy was written in the vernacular so that it could be understood by the common people. Dante wanted to make his work accessible to as many people as possible.

It’s a story about two teenage misfits who find love with each other.

Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duellist who lived in the 17th century.

Alice in Wonderland is a book about a girl who falls into a rabbit hole and has a series of adventures in a strange place called Wonderland.

The Da Vinci Code is a mystery novel by Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert Langdon as he tries to solve a murder mystery.

Dante’s Inferno has nine layers of the underworld, each for a different sin.

Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and dueller. He was born in Paris in 1619 and died in 1655.