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Crenellations are the alternating gaps (crenels) and raised blocks (merlons) along the top of a castle wall, built so defenders could shelter behind the merlons and shoot through the gaps.

Jack-o’-lanterns began as carved turnips in Ireland and the British Isles, where root vegetables were plentiful and pumpkins were not grown. Immigrants brought the custom to America, where pumpkins took over.

Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter with a regular ten-syllable beat; free verse is unrhymed and has no fixed meter, following the natural rhythms of speech.

The twelve apostles were Peter, Andrew, James and John (sons of Zebedee), Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Jude (Thaddaeus), Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who was later replaced by Matthias.

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic (1932), set transcontinental and Hawaii-to-mainland solo records, and led the Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots.

A sonnet is a 14-line poem with a turn of thought near the end; Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets use different rhyme schemes.

No. JYP Entertainment confirmed Stray Kids did not submit any music for the 2027 Grammy Awards, following BTS.

Allegorical means using characters, objects, and events as symbols for abstract ideas beyond the literal story, as in classic allegories like Animal Farm.

Anthropomorphism is the practice of ascribing human personality, appearance, conduct, cognition, or other human attributes to non-human entities—most often animals, but also gods, objects, or natural forces. The word comes from the Greek ánthrōpos (“human”) and morphē (“form”). In fiction and folklore it appears as talking animals, human-like toys, or personified weather; in everyday life … Read more

Iambic pentameter is a poetic line of five iambs (unstressed–stressed pairs), about ten syllables, widely used by Shakespeare and in blank verse.