"Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!" Which feature of these lines shows they are poetry rather than prose?

"Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, / But as for me, hélas, I may no more. / The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, / I am of them that farthest cometh behind." Which feature marks this extract as poetry?

ANTIGONE: "Ismene, sister of my blood and heart, / See'st thou how Zeus would in our lives fulfill / The weird of Oedipus, a world of woes!" The lines are verse. What still marks this extract as drama?

"A room, comfortably and tastefully, but not expensively, furnished." This is the first line printed in Ibsen's A Doll's House. What is it?

"She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her, into a family of artisans." Which form does this opening belong to, and why?

"In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own." What marks this as prose narration rather than drama?

In The Little Prince the boy says, "If you please, draw me a sheep." The pilot then tells us how the words startled him. Why is the book prose and not drama?

Les Miserables was written as a novel and was later staged. What must a stage version supply that Hugo's novel does not need?

In the Decameron, ten young people tell one story each for ten days. The tales run in continuous narration. Which form does the collection use?

The Epic of Gilgamesh survives on clay tablets, set out in short lines with heavy repetition rather than in paragraphs. Which form is it, and what shows it?

Pope's Iliad moves in rhymed pairs of lines. Butler's Odyssey tells its story in unbroken paragraphs. What does this difference show about literary form?

Wyatt's "Whoso list to hunt" runs for fourteen rhyming lines and turns toward its conclusion partway through. Which poetic form does that describe?

In Antigone the Chorus says, "Many wonders there be, but naught more wondrous than man." Which form does a chorus belong to?

A student says that all European literature of the 1800s tells its story in prose. Which text from this term shows the claim fails?

A student says that every ancient work this term reads is an epic poem. Which text breaks that claim?

A student says European storytelling always follows one main character from start to finish. Which text from this term shows otherwise?

Antigone is written in verse and A Doll's House is written in everyday speech. Both are plays. What does that show?

The Odyssey opens with Odysseus already far from home years after the war, and supplies the earlier events later. Which term names that kind of opening?

Which pair of features belongs to poetry rather than to prose or drama?

Sophocles wrote Antigone to be performed by actors in a theater.