Identify the figures of speech in the underlined parts of the following quotations and explain their functions:

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

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Trace the characteristics of English literature during the Elizabethan period.

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What is Restoration? Discuss the historical and political Background of the Restoration Age.

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Discuss "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot as a modern poem.

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What are the main features of the Victorian period? How did the Victorian era influence Tennyson and his poetry?

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Estimate Milton's significance as an epic writer.