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A fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and often inspired by folklore.
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An epic is a long narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture.
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Blank verse is poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter, commonly used by Shakespeare and Milton.
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'Brick Lane' is a novel by Monica Ali that follows the life of a Bangladeshi woman named Nazneen who moves to London at the age of 18.
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'Gulliver's Travels' is a prose satire by Jonathan Swift that parodies traveler's tales and human nature through the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver.
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Edmund Spenser was called the 'Poet's Poet' by Charles Lamb because of his high artistry, melody, and influence on other poets like Keats and Shelley.
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O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter, an American short story writer famous for his use of irony and twist endings.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era, known for 'Faust' and 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'.
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'Romeo and Juliet' is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two star-crossed lovers whose deaths reconcile their families.
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A.S. Hornby was an English grammarian and lexicographer, famous for the 'Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary', designed for non-native speakers.