Question

In this novel’s last section, the definition of a “maggot of extinct fly that once bred in mammoths” suggests a work has an alternate narrator. A girl who talks to spirits in a barn drowns in an icy lake in this novel after her blind date rejects (0[1])her. (0[1])Sybil is hostile towards (0[1])this novel’s protagonist, (0[4])who inspires his neighbor with stories (0[1])about a gay king escaping his homeland and settling (20[1])in (*) New (10[1])Wye. The assassin Jakob Gradus may have killed a poet (10[1])in this novel due to mistaking him (10[2])for the (10[1])Zemblan king (10[1])Charles. (10[3])The line “I was (10[1])the shadow (10[1])of the (10[1])waxwing (10[1])slain” (10[2])opens (10[1])a (10[1])poem in this novel that is erroneously commented on by Charles Kinbote. (10[2])For 10 points, name this Vladimir Nabokov (10[1])novel (10[2])centering on (0[1])the title (0[1])John Shade poem. (10[2]0[2])■END■ (10[2]0[3])

ANSWER: Pale Fire
<Yingzhi Nyang, Literature - American - Long Fiction&gt; ~24787~ &lt;Editor: Chandler West>
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2023 PACE NSC06/10/2023Y3382%3%0%104.07

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